The benefits of play-based learning are huge, and we shouldn’t be depriving our children of it just because they are getting older.

Over the years, our ELL students have eagerly shared stories about an important festival that falls over spring break: Nowruz, the Persian New Year.

Musicals form an important part of the arts, serving as powerful resources for student learning, engagement, and motivation.

I believe it is vital for some form of investment education, along with the other elements of financial literacy, to exist in every school. In every classroom.

I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that rules without relationships lead to rebellion. Yet today, relationships with students seem to be feared instead of embraced. Over the years, quite by accident, I have discovered that this precept from days gone by is critical to classroom rules and to learning itself. Relationships are an essential part of learning, especially relationships between teachers and students.

To many in the field, a poor first year of teaching is the first step in an accepted, almost ritualistic career timeline. Perspectives on a teacher’s first year seem to have shifted, though, since my generation entered the workforce.

IBL has a broad definition and varied implementation. It is generally characterized by a student-centered learning experience, with little to no lecturing.

“I went into teaching so that I could help children perform well on standardized testing,” said no teacher, ever.

Drama is far more than a performance-based art. It is a dynamic educational tool that improves students’ capacity to understand perspectives far removed from their own.