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 ...

Challenges are a fact of life. Whether it’s a high-tech company figuring out how to shrink its carbon footprint, or a local community trying to identify new revenue sources, people are continually ...

Grant makers are especially well positioned to get nonprofit organizations to work together on common problems in their communities, write Joseph A. Connor and Stephanie Kadel-Taras, chief executive ...

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 ...

Complex organizational problems and chaos are silent killers of productivity and innovation. In today’s fractured work environment, they are more prevalent than ever. Political transitions, ...

Diagrams of simple machines—a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever—appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics plus art) in South Fayette, ...

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 ...

MATHFEST 2025, held at the SLIIT Auditorium on Friday 6th May, was an exhilarating celebration of mathematical excellence, demonstrating the power of analytical thinking and collaborative ...