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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?

Breaking the Rules: How Giving Students More Choice Transformed My Teaching

When I told my fifth-grade class that they were old enough to take charge of their own learning, something unexpected happened.

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.

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?

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.

Scripted, Not Silenced: Finding Freedom Within the Frame

We don’t have to choose between structure and creativity. The best teaching lives in the in-between, where we follow a script, but we fill it with our stories, our students’ voices, and our classroom rhythms.

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.

Flipping the Script: Using Comics and Creative Play to Boost ESL Confidence

On paper, the students I was teaching had a solid grasp of grammar, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Yet, when it came to speaking, they froze.

Is It Time to Redefine Education for Modern Students? An Interview with Ravi Bhushan

How do we prepare students for a world that looks nothing like the one traditional curricula were designed for? Ravi Bhushan, founder of BrightCHAMPS, believes he has part of the answer.

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?

Education News

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.

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.

Engaging Every Learner: How This Free Tool Can Transform Classroom and Home Learning

Random Wheel Spin is a fully customizable wheel of names spinner with additional activities that can be added beneath each name. This tool offers a lightweight but powerful solution to the ever-present problem of student engagement.

Newton’s Grove School Student-Led Initiative Supporting the Homeless Launches This December

Through the second annual Bites of Kindness initiative, two sisters are once again taking action to spread kindness and make a meaningful difference in their community.

Kids Write 4 Kids 2025 Contest Now Open for Young Canadian Authors

Ripple Foundation invites students in Grades 4–8 from across Canada to submit their original stories to the annual Kids Write 4 Kids contest, open until March 31, 2026.

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Classroom Perspectives

Transforming the Class with Google Apps

When I reflect on my years working in classrooms with students, I think about how much time it took to access and use essential technology B.G. (before Google). I compare it with what it must have been like for people before electricity and after electricity. B.G.

Network Ninja: Teaching Digital Citizenship

Under the umbrella of Digital Citizenship (DC) are some complex concepts. Netiquette, Internet safety, information usage and cyber bullying are just a few of the topics that teachers explore as they help students unpack what it means to use technology responsibly. Our school went wireless this past January.

More than Just Chit-Chat: Teaching Social Studies with Podcasts

In my classes I use a team-structured, project-based approach to teach history and civics. It’s an approach that covers nearly all the bases.

A Teacher’s Take On Graphic Novels

Are graphic novels a lesser form of writing? Parents and children often have opposing views when it comes to this unique and beautifully crafted type of literature.

Empowering Education: Exploring Hispanic/Latinx Representation in Comics

Students want to read stories that matter to them and, most of all, they want to see themselves reflected within the pages of their beloved comics.

A Thank You to My Principal, Tim Liles

When our school received the news that our principal had passed from a private battle with brain cancer, it shook the staff, students, and entire community to the core.

Teaching the Real Purpose of Writing

In English classes, which require students to sit and read or write for extended periods of time, it can be challenging to get them to want to do their work.

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?

Accepting My Stutter Made Me a Better Teacher

Stuttering is a hidden disability that affects up to 9% of children, meaning it's likely that many teachers will encounter a student with this speech impediment in their classroom.

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Reading Lists

15 New and Upcoming Books for Student Activists

To help you inspire your students to become agents of change, we’ve gathered these books that focus on different forms of activism.

10 Books That Tackle Bullying

Share these books with your students to spark meaningful conversations about bullying and empower them to stand up for themselves and others.

15 Books About Space and Astronomy

From books about the Big Bang to poems about planets, and everything in between, you’re sure to have a blast with these stellar reads.

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Mentorship

At Ease in the Classroom: How to Mentor Student-Teachers

You’ve likely been a student-teacher. You’ll likely have a student-teacher too. But you’ve probably never been given training about how to host one well.

Hope and Despair: Q&A with an Inner City School Teacher

After more than 20 years in educational administration, Ed Boland decided to help in a more direct way. He wanted to teach.

Talking Educational Equity with Bush Fellow Marvis Kilgore

A dedicated teacher and educational equity strategist, Marvis Kilgore is passionate about increasing Black male representation in teaching. In our conversation, he shares his vision for transforming education.

A Seat at the Table: Equality in the Classroom

We may believe we are creating inclusive, “multicultural” teaching environments, all while being completely unaware of the systemic racism that still impacts our students.

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.

Helping Students Overcome Freshman Year Anxiety

For high school teachers, the start of the year can be a bit daunting as you welcome new (and nervous!) students to a very different type of school day.

The Power of Mentorship: How Guidance and Connection Shaped My Teaching Journey

When I first learned about The Mentoree, it immediately resonated with me. I was eager to connect with someone who had relevant experiences and could help answer the many questions I had.

Technology

Managing Technology Use in Your Classroom

Don’t let classroom management concerns prevent you from making effective use of technology in your classroom! Check out these tips and please add some of your own

Not Being Good Enough: The Price of Digital Citizenship

The digital world can either serve as a confidence-enhancer or self-esteem-suppressor, depending on how it is used.

4 Digital Resources That Bring Global Education to Life

Discovering the world outside of a familiar place can shape children’s developing perspectives. Here are a few websites and apps that can help.

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.

Should We Code in English? The Linguistic Debate on Programming Languages

In a world that is striving to create universal accessibility, it’s important that students be exposed to the idea of programming with multiple languages in mind.

Techexpertise: The Digital Starter Kit

As teachers, we’ve been given the role to navigate what technology now looks like in our classrooms. At my school we have developed a model to support technology use.

4 Health and Fitness Apps for Kids

It is important to encourage kids to move and develop an understanding of health and fitness that will carry on into adulthood. Here are some apps that can help.

4 Apps That Teach Students How to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Here are some websites and resources to help you and your students learn more about the complex process of recycling.

Tackling Online Bullying in the Real World

Teachers can’t control what students experience in the digital space. But they can control how they respond when students bring their concerns to them.

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Field Trips

7 Immersive Art Adventures for Kids

Art education works best when it’s interactive, engaging, and yes, even a little messy.

Learning with LEGO: 6 Build-and-Play Field Trips for Students

It’s all about LEGOs! Yes, these little plastic bricks have transcended from a humble childhood toy box staple to a popular and sophisticated educational tool.

Treat Yourself to These 5 Tasty Chocolate Factory Tours

Chocolate factory tours offer unique—and delicious—ways to learn about the process of making chocolate and the origins of cacao beans.

Social-Emotional Learning

Calmer Classrooms, One Breath at a Time: How Meditation Can Transform Behavioural Health

As we work to build classrooms that nurture both academic and emotional success, meditation serves as a simple yet powerful tool.

Teaching “What to do”: Effective Autism Intervention

The newest studies will tell you that 1 in 68 children are now born with autism. This is a jaw-dropping increase from previous statistics.

Real-World Tips for Anti-Bullying

Bullying is not something that is going to go away. It is something, however, that can be reduced significantly if the right strategies are in place.

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 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.

Small Steps, Big Impact: Outdoor Immersion with Outside for 5

A strong connection to the outdoors leads to higher levels of social competence, emotional regulation, and behaviour management among kids. 

4 Senior Care Facilities That Support Service-Learning

Enabling students to gain experience caring for those in need can promote their social-emotional development, instilling values such as understanding, empathy, tolerance, and compassion.