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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?

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.

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.

“Why Aren’t We Taught About Investments in School?” Rethinking Financial Education for K–8 Students

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.

5 Ways to Encourage Real Reading in a Digital World

These 5 strategies can help balance screen time and cultivate a lifelong love for reading in students.

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.

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.

Let Me Tell You a Funny Story… Teaching ESL with Laughs, Not Lectures

In my current role as an ESL teacher, I’ve found that nothing draws students in, holds their attention, and helps them remember quite like a story.

10 Holiday Light Displays You Won’t Want to Miss

We’ve rounded up the best light displays to chase away those winter blues and help you get into the holiday spirit.

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.

Education News

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.

AI in Education: Expert Says Guardrails Are the Difference Between Help and Harm

Veteran EdTech leader Peter Kraft says schools need clear rules and protections to make sure AI supports teachers and student growth, not shortcuts.

$1M Grant from the Allstate Foundation Expands NASSP Youth Service and Leadership Initiatives

The partnership empowers student councils and national honor societies to make a greater impact in their communities.

“The Wounded Line”: An Accessible and Inspiring Guide to Writing Poems About Trauma

I’ve seen how many of my students want to write about their traumas in poems. And I’ve also seen how difficult this process can be for them. That’s why I decided to write “The Wounded Line.”

New Automated Early Warning System Identifies At-Risk Students Months Before They Become Chronically Absent

New features in SchoolStatus Attend platform flag risk within 60 days to help educators intervene earlier, ensuring no student slips through the cracks.

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Classroom Perspectives

Helping Students Overcome the “But I’m just not a good writer” Mindset

As soon as I utter the words “writing assignment,” looks of panic appear on my students’ faces. Their hands shoot up like rockets and the questions immediately start.

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 Kids to Read: Modern Approaches vs. Montessori Method

At first glance, the Montessori method and the Science of Reading appear to be opposing philosophies. But if you look closer, they are in fact surprisingly similar.

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.

Celebrating Heritage: A Student-Led Journey Across Cultures

In today’s diverse classrooms, fostering cultural awareness is essential in order to create inclusive and engaging learning environments

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.

Going Beyond the Curriculum: Incorporating Life Skills in the Classroom

As an educator, my classroom isn’t just a space for reciting facts and figures. It’s a dynamic environment where learning extends far beyond the curriculum.

Morbid Fascination in the Classroom: Engaging or Inappropriate?

Students often display a morbid curiosity that I feel I cannot ignore, but can I lean into it? Can I use this fascination in a way that engages students, but also humanizes them?

Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills

Can unicycles serve an important educational purpose? Are there good pedagogical reasons for learning to ride them?

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Reading Lists

12 Children’s Books to Read for Hanukkah

Light up your Hanukkah celebrations with these festive new books.

8 STEM Books About Real-Life Inventors

These suggested reads about inventors may spark your students’ interest in all things building, tinkering, and creating.

15 Winter Holiday Books for Kids

Celebrate diversity and multiculturalism during the winter season by sharing these 15 holiday books with students.

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Computer Science

How Virtual Worlds Can Transform Learning

My journey began in Vancouver 30 years ago, as an aid with Trainable Mentally Handicapped students. Designated as ‘uneducable,’ these students were relegated to gaining work experience. Noticing they easily recounted movie plots and the artists and lyrics Top 40 songs, it occurred to me that the real handicap might be a teaching methodology that was incompatible with their learning styles.

On the Frontlines: How Teachers Can Help Defend Against Ransomware

With K–12 schools increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals, there are steps classroom teachers can take to help their schools avoid falling prey to ransomware.

Minecraft in the Classroom: Ways to Boost Problem-Solving and Critical Thinking

There is a growing community of educators who have adopted Minecraft as a powerful engagement tool in mainstream subjects like math, science, social studies, and even language arts.

Fear Not the Robot: Inspiring Innovation and Creativity with Robotics

Robots aren’t just hobbies for students tinkering in basements or garages anymore. Many schools start robotics classes after seeing how popular the clubs are.

Empowering Students for Career Success in a Changing World

Today’s students are inheriting a world of job disruption. Gone are the days where students could assume specific education will lead to a specific job.

Coding for Kids: Why Learning to Code is the New Essential Skill in Digital Education

There’s a greater push to teach kids computer coding at school. But you don’t need to be a technology whiz to introduce it to your students.

The Positive Impacts of Computer Science: What Every Teacher and Administrator Should Know

After working as both a teacher and an administrator, I know how much of a difference it can make when school leaders truly appreciate the power of computer science.

Human Rights Month

The Language of Empowerment: Engaging ELL Students with the Charter

By engaging critically with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, newcomer students develop more than just a broader vocabulary or sharper analysis skills.

A Look at the Right to Peaceful Assembly and the Freedom Convoy Protest

At present, there are widespread misunderstandings of how the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms works.

Thinking Like a Teen: Teaching the Charter to Grade 9 Students

In my experience with teaching the Charter, a great way to connect the priorities of fifteen-year-olds with the values of this significant document is by thinking like a teen.

Human Rights: Canada’s Successes Shouldn’t Overshadow Its Failures

Many of us likely take basic universal human rights for granted. Yet in a legal sense, human rights have existed for less than 75 years.

Making Rights Real: Teaching the UNCRC

"What do you mean, we have rights as minors?” Thirty pairs of quizzical eyes met mine. Brows furrowed in confusion. “Aren’t rights made by adults, for adults?”

A Lesson on Empathy: Refugees and the UN Rights of a Child

During our staff meeting that afternoon, my colleagues and I learned our school had six new students who were Syrian refugees.

One Small Step: Women’s Rights and the Citizenship Act

The issue of gender equality in Canada isn’t new. Women have been fighting for their rights since well before Canada was a country.

Making Space for Justice: The Realities of “Universal” Human Rights

Is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms truly universal in the human rights it promises to protect?

Saving the Future: Climate Action and the Rights of Nature

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the basic rights to democratic and free life, but what about the right to nature?

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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.

7 Immersive Art Adventures for Kids

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

10 Ski Resorts Offering Field Trips This Winter

Alpine sports are a popular activity in the winter and many ski resorts offer Snow Schools or organized field trips.

The Arts

Crafting Connections: A Teacher’s Heartfelt Gift

I am a primary school teacher from East Oxford, and last year I crocheted a “mini-me” of each child in my class as an end-of-year gift.

How Technology Improved Student Achievement in My Art Class

Disciplinary problems were high, student achievement was low, and so was my patience. I knew I couldn’t do this again the following year, so I decided to change my approach.

Puppets Talk, Children Listen

The expressiveness and dramatization of puppets have not only entertained people for thousands of years, but have also been used to educate and inform.

Key Lessons We Can Learn from High School Musicals

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

From Concepts to Kicks: Bringing Art to Life

As an elementary school art teacher, it is my job to engage my students and get them thinking critically about what and how they create.

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.

7 Apps to Foster Student Creativity

Help your students dust off their thinking caps with these apps that are designed to inspire imagination and spark creativity.