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The Value of Behavior Commerce: Rethinking How We Support Emotional Growth in Schools

After 25 years in special education classrooms, I’ve learned something our current education system doesn’t always want to admit: the most important work students do each day often goes unseen.

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?

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?

Navigating Challenges and Charting a Path Forward for DEI in Urban Education

For urban educators and students—who often deal with deep-rooted inequities every day—the effort to promote equity and inclusion must continue.

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).

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.

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?

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.

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.

Education News

Shakespeare for Today: Inspiring a New Generation of Fans Through This Reimagined Collection

“All the World’s Your Stage” offers an accessible, diverse, and visually stunning approach to Shakespeare’s most iconic plays.

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.

Classroom Perspectives

Over Your Head: Digital Barriers in the Classroom

It is widely accepted that digital tools and resources are vital to students’ success in the modern world. It is also widely believed that the only barrier to access is money.

It’s Alive! Teaching with Horror Stories in the Classroom

Throughout my years of teaching, I’ve discovered that students are often more eager to read and discuss horror stories than other material.

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.

Paths to Success: Practicing Hope Theory in the Classroom

Throughout the decade I have spent working in education, I’ve seen the most positive impact when I’ve incorporated hope-based strategies into my teaching.

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?

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.

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.

The Missing Link: Addressing Boys’ Disengagement from Education

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

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.

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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

Interrupting and Other “Bad” Class Behaviours

If students are misbehaving in class, there's usually a reason behind that behaviour. It’s an educator’s job to figure out what's going on and find a solution with the student.

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.

How to Calm Explosive Student Behaviour

An inability to function socially or emotionally is as much of a learning disability as the inability to read. The tragedy of our time is that few people recognize it as such.

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.

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.

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.

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

Introducing a New STEM Resource for Girls: The WISE Girls Toolkit

The toolkit is a practical, research-informed resource designed to foster STEM confidence in girls by blending identity work, mentorship, and hands-on STEM engagement.

Rain or Shine: Exploring the Benefits of Outdoor Education

Blue skies, green grass, and fresh air don’t usually come to mind when describing the features of a typical classroom, but that’s exactly what outdoor education offers.

Planet School: Building a Greener World

Administrative policy may dictate how teachers deal with climate strikes. Preparing them for responding to the needs of increasingly ecologically aware students is more complicated.

Every Drop Counts: Keeping Water Education Fresh

When students look at the globe and see so much blue, it seems as though there’s an abundance of water. But that's just not true.

Get Kids Coding with These 5 Field Trips

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

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.

Teaching with Google Drive

For teachers, time is a precious commodity. That’s why I believe we need to incorporate Google Drive into our everyday teaching standards.

Making Social Media Work for You

If teachers want to use social media wisely in the classroom—either by teaching about it, or teaching with it—they’ll need to seriously think about why and how they’re doing so, and help their students do the same.

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.

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.

Whole Child, Whole School: Prioritizing Student Wellness

Imagine an elementary school where wellness isn’t just a buzzword, but a cornerstone of student success.

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.

The New Health Curriculum: More Than Just Sex

For the first time in almost 20 years, Ontario’s health curriculum has received a major overhaul. Although some parent and religious groups have mounted protests, Ontario’s new curriculum is a rounded program that looks at all aspects of health including sex, physical wellness, and mental health. Except for a couple of provinces and territories that are lagging behind, we are all on the same page.

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.

Horseback Riding: 6 Introductory Field Trips for Kids

Immerse your students in the wonderful world of horses through these exciting equine field trips!

4 Fun and Simple Indoor Games for Students

When the weather is too cold or unfavourable to venture outside, why not try something different—an in-school game-based “field-trip.”