Enthusiastic children sat in rows chattering in an excited buzz as the start of the Genius Hour drew near. This afternoon Birch Elementary held its fourth annual Genius Hour program. Genius Hour is a ...

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.

“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 ...

Williams Ledger Elementary School second-grader Janell Gray watches intently as the glass blower reaches inside the glass furnace to gather a layer of melted, clear glass. He then rolls the hot glass ...

DERRY — At the start of the school year, Ernest P. Barka Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Emily Burns knocked on her principal’s door with an idea. That idea, called Genius Hour, was to set aside ...

After she retired, former Hamilton Schools employee Susan Damm decided the best way to cap off three decades of teaching was to do some more teaching. A past winner of the teacher of the year award at ...