Imagine a school day in which students spend a chunk of time studying and pursuing a topic or project they’re passionate about. That’s the premise of “genius hour,” a growing trend in which teachers ...

Seventh and eighth graders at Tioga Junior High School spent the last three months researching things like the nation's opioid crisis, the link between football and CTE and how society can help ...

Genius Hour stems from Google, which allows employees to use 20 percent of work day to follow their own pursuits Learning process involves developing driving questions, research and presentation ...

Genius Hour is a combination of inquiry-based and passion-based learning. It is a time (usually one hour per week, but sometimes more) when students are able to learn about something they wonder about ...

This article is part of the collection: What Personalized Learning Looks Like Across the Country: The 2017 Fifty States Project. When it comes to personalized learning in the classroom, no single ...

However, even with all this freedom, we still need some rules. The way I see it, the four rules to Genius Hour are: propose, research, create, and present. As long as your students are following this ...