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Rethinking Continuity: How Looping Can Transform Classrooms

Students perform better when they experience a stable environment with consistent relationships. One way to achieve this is through looping.

Dr. Yuvraj Verma, Caroline Hudgins, Adriane Gill and Rachel Campbell - April 1, 2026

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Classroom Perspectives

The Most Powerful Reading Tool? Passion

Here’s how a student’s plea to save the bees helped me become a better reading teacher.

Mental Health and Well-being

Empowering Learners Starts Within: The Key to Unlocking Their Full Potential

When we prioritize emotional health, we don’t just teach students—we empower them to lead, to dream, and to thrive.

Classroom Perspectives

“I Don’t Like You”: The Moment That Shaped My Teaching Journey

The child stepped closer and closer until she paused just two feet away, locking eyes with me. “I don’t like you,” she declared, then kicked me in the leg and casually strolled back to the playground.

Science

Sparking Curiosity: How to Transform STEM Learning in Your Classroom

What if getting students interested in STEM doesn’t require different assessments or an entirely new curriculum? What if the real shift comes from rethinking how we invite students to experience STEM in the first place?

Canadian Studies

Free Resources from Canada’s Parliament

To support educators, the Parliament of Canada offers free, bilingual, and classroom-ready resources that can help kickstart conversations about democracy and government.

Fundraising

How Schools Can Lead Community Fundraising Initiatives

As a teacher or school administrator, you’re shaping future citizens who understand empathy, collaboration, and civic responsibility. Community fundraising initiatives offer a powerful way to do all three at once.

Technology

Digital Literacy: Helping K–12 Students Learn to Spot Misinformation

How can educators make students aware of the fact that not everything they read or hear online is true?

Education News

Why Eighth-Grade Algebra Access Matters

Access to eighth-grade algebra is far from equal. Many students never get the chance to take it before high school, even when they’re ready.

Careers and Guidance

What Impact Is AI Having on the College Search Process?

AI is powerful when it can help students access information and make better choices, however, it can also be problematic.

Education News

Book Lists

Why We Need to Start Recognizing the Strengths of Sensitive Children

March 30, 2026 0

I was a boy in Texas in the 1980s. At that time, young men were expected to grow into cowboys or firefighters or G.I. Joes.

Education News

Sustainable Professional Wear for Teachers

March 27, 2026 0

Teachers make hundreds of decisions every day. Yet one of the earliest decisions happens quietly at home each morning: What am I going to wear today?

Education News

Key Forces Shaping K–12 Learning in 2026

March 23, 2026 0

The annual report identifies the top challenges schools must overcome, trends driving innovation, and tools transforming teaching and learning this year.

Education News

Indoor Air Quality Policies to Make Schools Healthier and More Energy Efficient

March 20, 2026 0

In “A Win-Win for Lung Health,” the American Lung Association outlines ten recommendations to improve energy efficiency and ensure healthy indoor air quality.

American Studies

Connecticut State Department of Education Launches New Music-Infused High School Humanities Course

March 16, 2026 0

Developed in partnership with TeachRock, the classroom-ready “Course in a Box” An American History of Rock and Soul offers districts an arts-integrated model course aligned to state standards.

Classroom Perspectives

Talking to Young Students About George Floyd

July 7, 2020 0

I search, “Talking to children about racialized violence.” I know experts say children are never too young to talk about race, but none of them have a lesson plan for me.

The Value of Diversity: A Poetic Celebration of Asian Heritage Month

May 1, 2022 0

In honour of Asian American Heritage Month, which is celebrated every May, I tasked the students in my three Asian American Literature classes with a special project.

Mrs. Kramer’s 1970s Childhood Challenge

March 1, 2021 0

It’s said that there is always a blessing in dark times, and this was it: my chance to share my 1970s childhood with 25 children of 2020.

Finding Hope: How I Taught the Rwandan Genocide

March 1, 2015 0

As the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide approached in April 2014, I took it as an opportunity to teach my students about this horrific and tragic event.

How to Show Students You Respect Them

January 1, 2004 0

You see, here’s the thing that some of us – teachers and parents alike – don’t really take time to stop and think about: kids’ feelings have value too. And they all have their own needs and wants at any given time.

Stories from the Stage: How Drama Education Shapes Global Citizens

July 23, 2025 0

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.

Transforming the Class with Google Apps

September 1, 2014 0

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.

Expressive Writing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

March 1, 2019 0

My students needed to experience success. And they needed to see that their writing could impact a broader audience than the one held captive each day in their classroom.

The Inclusivity Challenge: Is Canada a Just Society?

October 1, 2019 0

In my Grade 10 Canadian History course, students explore LGBTQ+ history the same way they explore the stories of many different Canadians in the context of our history.

Book Lists

10 Essential Climate Action Books for Kids

Kelsey McCallum -

These books help educate students about the science of climate change, while also introducing them to everyday people around world who are working towards a more sustainable planet.

Women in Sports: 19 Inspiring Reads for Students

Nupur Bagoria -

In anticipation of the upcoming Summer Olympic Games, we have compiled a list of books that showcase the stories of female athletes—both real and fictional.

15 New and Upcoming Books for Student Activists

Kelsey McCallum -

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

Indigenous Education

Healing through Art: The Legacy of the Williams Treaties

Fiona Tapp - 0

As we reflect on the Williams Treaties, their history, and their impact on the communities they affected, we grapple with issues of colonialism, land rights, and healing.

All My Relations: Worldviews of Indigenous Peoples in Canada

JoAnne Formanek Gustafson - 0

Over the past 15 years, I’ve had many discussions about what it means to be Anishinaabe. I’ve talked to my relatives across Treaty 3 and beyond.

Making Rose Hip Tea from Scratch: A Math Activity

Amber Hartwell - 0

This collaboration between the Library Learning Commons, a Grade 9 math teacher, and Indigenous Education blossomed into a beautiful place-conscious learning opportunity.

Exploring Indigenous Culture Through the Senses: A Transformative Learning Experience

Swapna Bhagat Luthra - 0

At McKenzie Towne School in Alberta, students are learning through touch, scent, and sound with the Indigenous Sensory Box Project.

Teaching Truth and Reconciliation: Exploring Residential Schools in Canada

Meagan Gillmore - 0

As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s mandate ends, there’s a greater emphasis on teaching Aboriginal content in schools. If this scares you, you’re not alone. If it inspires you, you’re not alone either.

Land of Incalculable Value: A Williams Treaties Overview

Carolyn Gruske - 0

In 1923, three parcels of land in southern Ontario were the subject of a legal process that defined how they could be used and who would control them.

Canadian Studies

Éy Swáyel! Welcoming Indigenous Pedagogy as a Canadian Educator

As an educator in Canada, whose homeland has been inhabited by Indigenous peoples long before me, I have the opportunity and responsibility to teach this history to my students.

Special Education

The Urgent Case for Reimagining Support, Belonging, and Hope in Schools

In his new book, Dr. Ross Greene explains why so many kids are struggling, why traditional discipline makes things worse, and how schools can transform their approach to become proactive, collaborative, and helpful.

Understanding Students with Asperger’s Syndrome

Because students with Asperger’s Syndrome can be bright and verbal, their learning disabilities, often nonverbal, may be overlooked.

How Data Sharing Can Help Struggling Readers

When I first created the reading test, it was supposed to simply track student progress. But I quickly discovered that sharing the results of my personal tracking system with students has completely changed their engagement and motivation levels.

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.

Collaborating in a School with No Library

Do you remember the first time you entered the school library as a child? I do. There were books everywhere.

5 Apps to Help Students Learn Sign Language

Introduce your students—and yourself—to the world of ASL with the help of these fun and engaging apps.

A Cooperative Approach: SLPs Turn to Classroom Teachers for Support

Collaborating is a major trend in the SLP world, with K–12 general education teachers and speech-language pathologists frequently working together to support their students.

Engaging Autistic Students with the Arts

Ask any educator who has welcomed multiple learners with autism into his or her classroom, and you will find there is no set formula for ensuring academic success.

Who Knew? Transforming How We See and Support Dyslexic Learners

One-third of the population simply learns differently from the way they are taught. They share the underlying “gift” of dyslexia, which is an ability to alter perception.

Social Media

How to Avoid the Self-Esteem Trap of Social Media

Adam Stone -

Social media poses a range of psychological risks, especially issues of body image. But there are practical steps K–12 educators can take to offset those risks.

TikTok and Teenage Pedagogy: Engaging Gen Z with Trauma and Nervous System Literacy

Lesley Machon -

These days, the reality is that plenty of young people are learning about mental health online, often through social media platforms like TikTok.

The Upside of Social Media: A Focus on Its Positive Potentials

Alex Newman -

Kids today are technology-savvy, but they need to be guided in asking the right questions about the content they produce and consume.

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