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The Value of Behavior Commerce: Rethinking How We Support Emotional Growth in Schools

After 25 years in special education classrooms, I’ve learned something our current education system doesn’t always want to admit: the most important work students do each day often goes unseen.

Making High School More Relevant: A Life Skills Approach

The integration of practical, relevant life skills into the curriculum not only improves engagement, but also increases emotional well-being and real-world readiness.

National Mathematics Day: A Joyful Celebration of Numbers and Numeracy

Every year on December 22nd, India celebrates National Mathematics Day. This day has become an opportunity for schools across the country to spark curiosity, reduce fear, and make math an enjoyable subject for students.

Beyond Grades: Empowering Student Learning Through Self-Assessment

What if the problem isn’t just how students respond to feedback, but how we deliver it? What if, instead of handing out scores, we gave students the opportunity—and the space—to reflect on their learning?

From Crafts to Curriculum: Why Playful Learning Isn’t Just for Kids

Play is widely acknowledged as essential to children’s learning; but does it have a role for the future teachers who are learning to guide those children as well?

Protecting Adolescents from the Risks of Social Media: Is a Ban the Solution?

With parents and teachers struggling to monitor how teens interact with social media, the pressure is increasing on governments to act. But is an age ban the best approach?

In 2026, Career Readiness Can’t Be Someone Else’s Job

When many students graduate, they cross the stage with a diploma in hand and a question they’re not prepared to answer: What comes next?

Giving Conflict Back: The Secret to Effective Restorative Practices

Here’s how I restored an elementary school’s staff culture from a feud 20 years in the making (with help from a 1970s criminologist).

Navigating Challenges and Charting a Path Forward for DEI in Urban Education

For urban educators and students—who often deal with deep-rooted inequities every day—the effort to promote equity and inclusion must continue.

New Study Addressing Teacher Departures Probes Causes and Possible Solutions

Many have lamented the growing teacher shortages across our nation, and for good reason. It is estimated that there are currently more than 49,000 vacancies across the U.S.

Education News

Shakespeare for Today: Inspiring a New Generation of Fans Through This Reimagined Collection

“All the World’s Your Stage” offers an accessible, diverse, and visually stunning approach to Shakespeare’s most iconic plays.

Unlock a Treasure Trove of Classical Literature Through Reading with Jimmy

Reading with Jimmy brings the classics to life by showing the text and reading it with comprehensive out-loud analysis.

For Canadian Students, a Career-Focused Degree Could Mean Heading to the U.K.

New research reveals that 83% of students value job experience above all, prompting more to choose U.K. degrees built with career outcomes in mind.

As Temperatures Rise, Math Scores Drop

The effect of heat waves on schools has become an urgent issue, with news stories on schools closing due to extreme heat becoming more and more common.

Mindset Matters: 4 Metaphors to Shift Your Thinking About ADHD

Later this month, my book, “An Educator’s Guide to ADHD,” will be released into the world. Structured in two parts, the book invites educators to explore how they can better understand and support students with ADHD.

Classroom Perspectives

Teaching from Behind a Screen During Lockdown

In March 2020, we received a rather cryptic message from our Technology Director: “Bring your computers home during the break, just in case the situation changes.”

Beyond Fame, Fortune, and Followers: Inspiring Students to Redefine Success

I’ve started to notice a troubling trend among my students: many of them equate success with fame, followers, or a fat bank account.

Rocking Out with RobenX: Enhancing Student Resilience Through Collaboration

Thanks to a collaboration with musician and anti-bullying advocate RobenX, I discovered many strategies for reaching students in new and lasting ways.

Unleashing Potential: The Many Benefits of Play-Based Learning

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

5 Ways to Teach Empathy for Children of All Ages

Many 21st-century employers argue that empathy is at the heart of success. But how do we teach students to master a skill that’s rooted in emotion instead of fact?

Keeping It Old School: The Retro Arcade Project

I wanted to design a new project that could be about classes working together, communicating, and listening to each other.

Read-Aloud Mentors: From Reluctant Readers to Inspiring Leaders

As a newer interventionist, I faced a formidable task: engage reluctant readers and address their needs with minimal resources for an entire 90 minutes.

Teaching with Google Drive

For teachers, time is a precious commodity. That’s why I believe we need to incorporate Google Drive into our everyday teaching standards.

Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Curriculum

Biology is the study of a diverse range of living things, and biology affirms all genders.

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Reading Lists

10 Books About Environmental Conservation for Children and Teens

Inspire students to take action against climate change, plastic pollution, and Earth’s water crisis with these environmental-themed books.

10 Books That Celebrate Queer Voices

As LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly targeted around the world, there’s never been a more crucial time to uplift and celebrate queer stories.

10 Mental Health Books to Share with Your Students

These books offer stories and resources about mental health and well-being, while also shining a spotlight on different mental health conditions.

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Behaviour Management

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

Many substitute teachers like me can teach a different grade every single day, from K–12. It can be challenging, to say the least.

How to Calm Explosive Student Behaviour

An inability to function socially or emotionally is as much of a learning disability as the inability to read. The tragedy of our time is that few people recognize it as such.

Dealing with Aggression in the Classroom

It seems that when education becomes a less positive experience, school climate suffers, and students become angrier and more confrontational.

Movement in the Classroom

After teaching at an alternative middle school for the past 4 years, the one thing I constantly hear from new students is: “We can move around in your room and not get in trouble?

The Art of Communication: Interpreting Student Drawings

Teachers are currently under an increasing amount of pressure to interpret their students’ drawings and better understand what can indicate a potential threat.

The End of Discipline in the Classroom

The current thinking on discipline is preemptive, rather than reactive. Change how you run your classroom, experts suggest, and discipline issues will no longer be a problem.

The Importance of Taking a “PAWS” for Our Students

A wink to our school’s husky mascot, PAWS Time is a highly engaging, weekly enrichment program that allows our students to “pause”: Practice kindness, Always be safe, make Wise choices, and Show respect.

STEM

6 Virtual Field Trips to Teach Kids About Honey Bees

Celebrate the complex and fascinating world of honey bees—and learn what steps can be taken to protect them—with these virtual field trips.

When Learning Gets Itchy: Embracing the Lessons of Outdoor Teaching

Students need to be allowed outside more often, and beyond just the playground—especially in areas where schools are the only green space.

Preparing for a Changing World: Climate Resilience in Schools

It is important to consider how schools are responding to climate change not just in the classroom, but on a practical level as well.

Is The Internet Essential to Good Teaching?

High-speed Internet access is not universal. But teaching with it—and without—highlights the never-changing qualities of good teaching. Some students at Timothy Davis’ school live in homes that sometimes seem “primitive,” their principal says. They’re not connected to high-speed Internet.

Kid Spark Education Launches Transformative Early Childhood STEM and Literacy Program

New hands-on program helps young learners build curiosity, confidence, and foundational STEM and literacy skills.

STEAM and Civility: COSI Launches a New Learning Lunchbox

COSI's new John Glenn Inspiration Learning Lunchbox is a hands-on science kit that helps students explore STEAM concepts while also learning the value of civility and civic engagement.

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.

How to Create a Paperless Classroom: Tips for a Digital Learning Environment

Like many of my students, I too use digital devices in my daily personal life, but the enormous piles of notes and paper combined with the constant fighting with the students to put their gadgets away drove me to reevaluate how I could use those very gadgets to my advantage.

Tech-Savvy Teens Teach Seniors to Surf the Web

From the way Donna places her hands, it’s obvious that she once knew her way around a typewriter. Today, Donna is learning how to send an email on a computer for the first time.

Field Trips

10 Children’s Museum Field Trips for In-Person and Online Learning

Children’s museums can be excellent environments to foster creativity and curiosity through hands-on, multi-sensory environments.

Distance Learning: 5 Virtual Zoo Field Trips

For a new twist on a classic school field trip, use these virtual zoo programs to take students on wild journeys through the animal kingdom—all from the comfort of the classroom!

6 Virtual Field Trips About Space and the Night Sky

With the help of these field trips, it’s possible to take students on journeys that are "out of this world" without ever having to leave the classroom.

Physical & Health Education

Get Moving: Helping to Close the Phys Ed. Gap

Although physical education may be on the decline, experts say there are a number of ways for K–12 teachers to help get kids moving.

5 Free Exercise Resources to Keep Students Active

Making sure kids get enough exercise during the colder months of the year can be a challenge. Here are some resources to help get them up and moving.

Myopia in the Classroom

In recent decades, the prevalence of myopia in children and teenagers has skyrocketed, becoming a pressing global health issue.

Trent University and Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Launch First-of-its-Kind Double Degree

Students will graduate with both a Bachelor of Arts and Science and a Doctor of Naturopathy degree in this accelerated seven-year pathway.

The New Health Curriculum: More Than Just Sex

For the first time in almost 20 years, Ontario’s health curriculum has received a major overhaul. Although some parent and religious groups have mounted protests, Ontario’s new curriculum is a rounded program that looks at all aspects of health including sex, physical wellness, and mental health. Except for a couple of provinces and territories that are lagging behind, we are all on the same page.

New Book Offers the First Comprehensive History of Sex Ed in America

Sex ed in schools is about much more than just health. It’s about reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ rights, and gender equity—and it matters now more than ever.

Get Students Moving with the Help of These 6 Gymnastics Clubs

Looking for a fun indoor activity to help your students burn off some energy? Look no further than a local gymnastics club!