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 ...

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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 ...

Genius Hour is a new learning experience for students at Pretty Prairie High School. This will be the second year it has been implemented into Betsy Graber’s high school classes, including web page ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

DERRY — At the start of the school year, Ernest P. Barka Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Emily Burns knocked on her principal’s door with an idea. That idea, called Genius Hour, was to set aside ...

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 ...