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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twelve-year-old Dante Jackson of Lenexa loves baseball and is a big fan of the Kansas City Royals. So when it came time for the sixth-grader from Rosehill Elementary School in the Shawnee Mission ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. When it comes to personalized learning in the classroom, no single ...

However, even with all this freedom, we still need some rules. The way I see it, the four rules to Genius Hour are: propose, research, create, and present. As long as your students are following this ...