PreK-12 students help each other learn every day: they teach each other.
Why wait until college to develop their teaching skills?
The Hoenny Center works with teachers and students in these ways:
Research, both national and local
Program development, to help kids teach better
Consultation with a group of dedicated PreK-12 teachers
Dissemination, to share what we're learning
Click on "New Briefs" (right) to learn about North Park Middle School Band students teaching Los Angeles area homeless kids how to play band instruments. The homeless students perform as members of the band when they're ready. Now, they're going to Carnegie Hall in April. The public middle school's band teacher Ron Wakefield began the program several years ago to meet a need. The band, with the homeless musicians who were ready, went to Carnegie Hall in 2007; now they're making a return trip with the band's new group of students.
See and Hear Teachers! Click here or on the YouTube link above for conversations with elementary and secondary school teachers about how they and their students benefit from peer teaching.
Four college students received 2009 Hoenny Center Future Educator Awards, in a ceremony at the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis in May 2009. From left, Anna Baker, Cassandra Davis, Lisa Vaughn, and Christine Krumsieg. They were selected from Scholarship Foundation recipients who taught others while in high school, were making good progress in a college teacher education program, and had support as a promising future educator. Photo by Bryan Schraier. 
