Many of the teachers and students who have written for this blog have described projects in which students worked in teams to solve problems and produce products. Here is a recent example from a ...

Twenty years ago, the school district was at an impasse. According to Assistant Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer Shannon Pelland, “We were financially upside down. We had frozen salaries for ...

Perhaps the greatest challenge we face in the modern world is the challenge of effective collaboration. In social, political, business and educational settings, working groups often fail to solve ...

City Councilmember Graciela Reyes was elected as one of Mexico’s first independent councillors for the Municipality of San Pedro, an affluent mid-sized community of about 150,000 outside the Mexican ...

Problem-solving is an essential life skill that involves identifying, analyzing, and resolving challenges effectively. Have you ever found yourself staring at a problem, feeling like you’re trying to ...

In early 2013, funders, environmental educators, and researchers crowded elbow-to-elbow around a 20-year-old redwood forest shelf fungus. On the 23rd-floor conference room of a San Francisco ...

From choosing what to eat for breakfast to picking out what to wear to charting out a new project to saying no to a proposal, our days are full of decisions. Some are small, while others could affect ...