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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.

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.

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.

“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.

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?

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.

The Most Powerful Reading Tool? Passion

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

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?

Learning About Money Should Feel Less Like Homework and More Like Real Life

It’s time to start rethinking financial education for the digital generation. Here’s how.

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.

Education News

Why We Need to Start Recognizing the Strengths of Sensitive Children

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.

Sustainable Professional Wear for Teachers

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?

Key Forces Shaping K–12 Learning in 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Making Rose Hip Tea from Scratch: A Math Activity

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

The Missing Link: Addressing Boys’ Disengagement from Education

To help boys succeed in school they need to feel connected.

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.

Everything Is Awe-some: Showing Young Students the Power of Awe

The topic of awe couldn’t be more timely. I’ve never seen such an urgent need to address social-emotional issues in and out of the classroom as I do now.

Exploring Indigenous Culture Through the Senses: A Transformative Learning Experience

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

Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills

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

Model UN and the Art of Diplomacy

The Model UN Club found me in 2013 in the shape of two very keen Grade 9 girls making a pitch to me at lunch about the need for more women in politics.

Keeping Kids Reading During the Age of Remote Learning

It is my job to motivate and mold my students, to keep them engaged, to build reading and writing confidence in all who enter my virtual classroom.

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Book Lists

10 Essential Climate Action Books for Kids

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

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

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

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Indigenous Education

Land of Incalculable Value: A Williams Treaties Overview

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.

Updating the Moccasin Telegraph: Indigenous People Embrace Digital

Within the classroom, it is important to share content that doesn’t position Indigenous people in the past but brings them into the present and future.

The Land Beneath My Feet

I am from a place called Curve Lake First Nation. It’s located deep in the nether regions of the Kawartha Lakes area in Ontario. In some ways, my home is an odd place.

6 Indigenous Cultural Centres to Inspire Young Minds

These cultural centres and heritage sites allow students to respectfully engage with the stories and perspectives of Indigenous peoples across Canada.

A Truth and Reconciliation Reading List: 10 Books for K–12 Students

To help you generate meaningful discussions for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’ve compiled a list of books about Indigenous history, culture, and resilience.

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.

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

How to Boost Participation in Physical Activity for Autistic Youth

Researchers investigating how to increase participation in physical activity by autistic children say key strategies include creating predictable routines, involving family members, and ensuring safe and sensory-friendly spaces.

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.

Breaking the IEP-to-Prison Pipeline

The first steps a student takes after graduation are as critical as graduating itself. While some students have a clearly defined plan and purpose, many others do not.

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.

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.

Emirates “Travel Rehearsal” Programs for Children With Autism

As part of Autism Awareness Month, several milestones have been achieved on Emirates’ journey to make travel more accessible for all.

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.

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.

New Immersive Platform Offers Glimpses Into the Daily Lives of Kids With ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia

The free digital tool by Understood.org uses simulations, videos, and expert resources to start conversations and challenge assumptions about learning and thinking differences.

Social Media

How to Avoid the Self-Esteem Trap of Social Media

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

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

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

LGBTQ+

From Exclusion to Inclusion: Teaching Equity Through Books

Books used in the classroom remind us that education is most powerful when it affirms the dignity of every child. Paired with history, inquiry, and compassion, they create a foundation for inclusion that reaches far beyond the school walls.

A Legacy of Equality: Reflecting on 25 Years of Progress

The Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act was a critical moment in Canada’s history—one that reflected a significant shift in societal attitudes toward LGBTQIA2S+ individuals.

The Inclusivity Challenge: Is Canada a Just Society?

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.

Before Marriage Equality: The Fight for Benefits and Belonging

Twenty-five years after the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, three central figures reflect on the legal and personal struggles that paved the way for LGBTQIA2S+ rights, freedoms, and equality in Canada.

Teaching Kids About Pride

I started my teaching career at a public middle school in Toronto about two decades ago. At that time, I was not comfortable being personally out to my students.

Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Curriculum

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

Safe Haven: The Journey of LGBTQ+ Refugees in Canada

The persistence of violence against LGBTQ+ people in countries where homosexuality is legal remains worrisome and creates a refugee situation that is not that easy to prove.