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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).

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

Education News

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.

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.

Classroom Perspectives

Uncomfortable Truths: What If Santa Claus Was Gay?

There is a world out there for which we are preparing our children, and that world includes people who identify as LGBTQ+.

Unseen Struggles: The Obstacles to Diagnosing Learning Disabilities in Children

It is not uncommon for a student to struggle with newly learned material. The question we need to ask is when does it become problematic?

Teacher Presence: Essential for Learning or Just a Buzzword?

When you have a teacher who has presence, students are impacted in ways that positively affect the class. But what exactly is teacher presence?

Finding Purpose in Teaching ESL

As I stood in my empty classroom surrounded by piles of boxes, I couldn’t help but wonder: what was I going to do now?

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?

The Benefits of Large Print Books

I thought large print titles would be good for students with visual impairments or for struggling readers. I had no idea how many regular education students would enjoy them too.

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.

Unlocking the Future: How to Embrace Technology for Student Success

The world is in the midst of a technological revolution that has surpassed expectations, and I’m witnessing firsthand how growing up in this digital age is impacting our students.

Stories from the Stage: How Drama Education Shapes Global Citizens

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.

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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 Secret to a Quiet Lunch Break: Building Student Relationships

The trick to not using all your personal days during the first month of school is to focus on stopping bad behavior before it starts, instead of punishing students after the fact.

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.

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.

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?

Should Schools Suspend Suspensions?

A growing chorus of educators and researchers have lately come together to urge schools away from suspension as a way to tame repeat classroom offenders.

Navigating Negativity: Conflict Resolution in the Classroom

Conflict-resolution skills don’t come naturally. They are learned, observed, and practiced. The classroom is a great place to safely work on these skills.

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

The Importance of Bees: Teaching Kids about Pollinators

It’s about time bees got the proper respect they deserve, and at one elementary school in Ottawa, they will soon have an entire pollinator meadow dedicated to them.

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.

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.

Don’t Forget to Wonder: Has the Internet Made Knowledge Too Easy?

It's nice to think of the Internet as a wonderful invention that has made our lives both richer and more efficient. It's a nice notion and it's an accurate one—the Internet has changed our lives for the better. We can now communicate with people from all four corners of the globe. We can share, swap, and gain as much knowledge as we could ever want or need. There are no negatives associated with instant knowledge—or are there?

Girls Experienced Disproportionate Setbacks in STEM Skills Post-COVID

COVID-19 has been an unequal crisis, disrupting learning more deeply for some student groups than others.

Get Kids Coding with These 5 Field Trips

Attend one of these field trips to get students practicing their coding skills.

7 Conservation Area Field Trips to Immerse Students in Nature

Engaging with the outdoors allows children to form a lasting bond with nature, and also helps them understand the responsibility they have to sustain it.

Vision to Reality: Creating STEM Pathways for Black Youth

The shortage of Black men in STEM remains a dire challenge in the United States. Here's a new project that is offering research-backed ways for support.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cancer in the Classroom: How to Have Candid Health Conversations with Kids

Classroom curriculum doesn’t account for a student’s cancer diagnosis. “My Brave Friend: Emma and Noah Face Cancer Together,” a new book for K–2 students, can help.

Is Sex Education Working?

The quality and quantity of a teacher’s own sex education also play a role in the quality and quantity of sex education they provide. “There isn’t a lot of [sexual health education] training provided for teachers.”

Students need to learn about menstrual health. Period.

Teaching students about menstruation should be an important part of health education. But educators are short on time and period-focused content.