Trying to Lay Low
It isn’t easy to teach the history of decriminalization of homosexuality in Canada. We interviewed three gay men who were there and remember what it was like.
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Leveling Up: Motivating Students Through Gamification
Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: Gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here. By leveraging technology ...
Hunger Pangs: Food Insecurity in Schools
This past summer, the Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania sent home an alarming letter to parents. If they didn’t pay off their kids’ school lunch debt ...
Password Management in the Classroom
Before Emilie Ritchen Elementary School in Oxnard, California adopted one-to-one digital devices, it was chaos. Multiple apps on multiple machines meant kids were always ...
Suspending Suspensions
Briana Robinson is no big fan of suspension as a disciplinary tool. “They come to school to learn and I want them to be in school as much as possible. When a student is ...
Slow Down: Keeping Children Safe in School Zones
Far from being a safe haven, schools can be a danger zone, especially for students walking amongst the crush of cars and busses that converge at drop-off and pick-up times.
Learning with Podcasts
Podcasts are increasingly popular: One-third of Americans say they’ve listened to one in the past month, according to Reuters Institute’s latest Digital News Report. Educators ...
ADHD: Naughty or Neurological?
For K-12 teachers, children who exhibit the signs of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can present a significant classroom challenge.
Helping Kids With Dyslexia
Originally published in TEACH Magazine July/August 2018 By Adam Stone A reading clinician and English as an Additional Language teacher in Western School Division, Southwest ...
Math Scores: Why Is This A Problem?
There are indications that student math scores are slipping. While the picture isn’t entirely clear, and while the situation is far from calamitous, it’s evident that