What is the Flat Classroom™ Project? The Flat Classroom™ Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging trend in internationally-aware schools to embrace a holistic and constructivist educational approach to work collaboratively with others around the world in order to create [...]

There are a number of alternatives to smartboards that I will be examining (and for some…constructing…). All of these little projects will fall under the broader umbrella of presentation aides. As a student, I have been subjected to tedious, boring, time consuming presentation…or decades… The current standard is to project a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of [...]

I see a practice that takes place in almost every middle school and high school, in almost every class that has a profound negative impact upon most students reading comprehension. This takes place in the classrooms of some of the best teachers I have had the pleasant opportunity to observe and even substitute for.