Seventh and eighth graders at Tioga Junior High School spent the last three months researching things like the nation's opioid crisis, the link between football and CTE and how society can help ...

Students at Wenonah Elementary are wrapping up another successful year of their year-long Genius Hour initiative, which included exploration, creativity, hands-on learning and community collaboration.

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“It bothers me that I am not learning things in school that will help me become what I want to be.” This is the most sobering and common response to one of three questions I ask my students before we ...

As the end of the school year approaches, finding motivation for both in-person and online schooling can be difficult for young students. According to parenting expert Sunny Verma, implementing a ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can I implement a “Genius Hour” with my students? Much lip service is given to the ideas of student choice, project- and problem-based learning, and intrinsic ...

When snow days piled up this winter, seventh-grader Emily Born was upset. It wasn’t that she always loved school, or that she had a big test coming up and needed her teacher’s help. No, the student ...

What are you passionate about? What do you want to do more than anything in the world? Well I hope you said what you are doing right now. This is not always the case. Some people hate what they are ...

Genius Hour is a combination of inquiry-based and passion-based learning. It is a time (usually one hour per week, but sometimes more) when students are able to learn about something they wonder about ...