Students in Jasmine Jefferson’s Grade 6 humanities classroom learn real-world skills.

Lydia Siddique, academic specialist, and Kate Surmeier, counselor, present at the 2023 World Literacy Summit, April 2–4

Sonia Perez incorporates everyday experiences in her lessons

Tony Del Campo joins a JOIDES Resolution Expedition

Teacher Staci Garner is asking the big questions

N–2 educator Tracy Aiden was recently honored with this year’s Mary V. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching

In the years that Mr. Drogos has owned the house and its surrounding 20 acres of land, it has become an ecological project, an informal art studio, an occasional larder, and a place to learn and play

Her interdisciplinary background, law degree, and dual career guide how Christy Gerst teaches history 

Lab partnerships with UChicago experts helps to keep Lab’s curriculum at the cutting edge

For Dewey, says U-High English teacher Catie Bell, PhD’07, democracy was “a way of being in the world where you live cognizant of your contributions to others, where you can make a difference.” 

Lab teachers invoke Dewey’s spirit with life-sized Jenga, automotive engineering, animal corpses

Best-selling author visits Lab to see Middle Schoolers perform a stage production of her novel 

Math, science, and social policy shapes Jessica Hanzlik’s approach

Kiran Younus helps Muslim children connect with their identities  

Ted Ratliff is valuable on the ball field, in the classroom, and in the community

The ideals of John Dewey reach around the world

For a one poetry assignment, she asked each student to pick a Volkswagen card, an Edward Gorey card, and to roll her haiku dice.

The classroom is enriched when teachers have the possibility to renew themselves in a field about which they are passionate

Kindergarten teacher moonlights as a Lego artist

The ability to “read the face” of a friend helps communicate when he might be upset, angry, hurt, stuck, frustrated, or sad. 

The whys and hows of the Middle School club “curriculum”