Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

Angela Ninde stood at a whiteboard to teach a lesson on odd and even numbers. Her students were rolling sets of dice and adding up the totals to understand the number patterns. It was a typical 5th ...

Mackenzie Nichols always dreamed that her children would go to the same school she’d attended: Peterborough Elementary, a public school of about 250 students in a small, outdoorsy community in ...

If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an ...

A 20-acre urban farm in Orlando, Fla., 4Roots addresses urgent issues like food insecurity and environmental decline through regenerative farming, education, and community collaboration. Photo: Chad ...

When children step out of their traditional elementary school classroom to learn outdoors, they experience a wide range of benefits. Outdoor learning is fun, active and fosters creativity and problem ...

Nine years ago, when my oldest son was in kindergarten, his 6.5-hour school day included just 15 minutes of outdoor recess. That paltry interval was typical of our Minnesota public-school district.

If you're a student—or even if you've just been around students lately—you've probably noticed that stress and anxiety seem to be at an all-time high. Between heavy academic workloads, social ...

Outdoor education – which takes students outside the classroom and onto sports fields, wilderness trails and waterways – is a central tenet of a private school experience. When young people step away ...

$2.6 million in grants continue to take shape in Sumrall.