Followers of the Learning Forward blog know that we changed our name several years ago from the National Staff Development Council to Learning Forward. Later this year, we’ll reach the five-year ...

Learning to talk backwards is just one of many kid friendly activities you can do with the free sound editor, Audacity, most of which involve making weird noises and then falling on the floor laughing ...

Our brains are highly flexible. With several years of training, we can learn how to do pretty much anything, no matter how difficult or pointless. Nearly any human brain can learn diverse skills like ...

"This is folk music. It is good that we have it in the schools, but we need to get it back more into the street—that's where it came from." When saxophonist Gary Bartz is not headlining his own band ...

Achieve your best final exams yet—use backward planning and active learning strategies. Backward planning means identifying your goal and choosing impactful learning strategies and actions that are ...

What if how we move changes how we learn? What if sitting still and paying attention in early childhood creates huge disadvantages in learning, emotional self-management and social problem-solving?

Have you ever learned something new only to realize that it’s caused you to forget something old? You’re not alone, said Charles Hohensee, associate professor in the School of Education at the ...