Genius Hour isn’t new concept. Many teachers and businesses have been doing this for a while. Companies like HP and Google started “20 Time” so their staff could pursue passions projects and make ...

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 ...

Marshall School held their Genius Hour Showcase highlighting the work of their students on Wednesday. December 17th. 7th grade science students and 8th grade English students got the chance to present ...

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Want to learn more about the Eiffel Tower or cyclonic separators? How do you make an animated flip book or bind a hardbound book? Just ask a fifth grader at Molin Upper Elementary School. Those are ...

Imagine being assigned a project at school with but one prerequisite: You must feel unequivocally,unrelentingly passionate about the subject at hand. That’s the idea behind “Genius Hour,” a pilot ...

The halls of Parkway Elementary School were filled with creative projects of all varieties recently during Pine Tree ISD’s Genius Hour. The Genius Hour program is designed to help students find ...

[Editor’s note: This story, originally published on January 26th of this year, was our #7 most popular story of the year. The countdown continues tomorrow with #6, so be sure to check back!] What are ...

“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 ...

Twelve-year-old Dante Jackson of Lenexa loves baseball and is a big fan of the Kansas City Royals. So when it came time for the sixth-grader from Rosehill Elementary School in the Shawnee Mission ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Cryptids, black holes, a human mission to Mars- these are all topics of learning at Forest Hills Elementary in Eden Prairie. It's not because teacher have a burgeoning ...