Successful group work in middle and high school requires thoughtful design. These strategies help teachers create clear roles, purposeful tasks, and accountability so that every student ...

The Gary L. McDowell Institute Student Fellows Program seeks to inspire intellectual discussion between students through reading. This years cohort topic? Religion.

This article is featured in the 2024 Freshman special issue. Between the regular Town meetings, historical first-in-the-nation primary and the country’s second-largest legislature — trailing only the ...

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...

Many of the lecture-based classes students take in college require a discussion section. Discussion sections give students the chance to further engage with material they receive in lecture. They can ...

At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

Group therapy offers a supportive space to connect with others facing similar challenges, reducing isolation and building encouragement. Led by our clinicians, small groups of students generally meet ...

One of Kevin Gannon’s favorite class discussion activities doesn’t involve much talking. Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous ...

The aim of the Northwestern Student Chapter of SIAM is to provide a platform for students involved in science to interact with one another. SIAM ESAM graduate students form the core of Northwestern's ...