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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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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).

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.

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?

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

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

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

Many substitute teachers like me can teach a different grade every single day, from K–12. It can be challenging, to say the least.

The Power of a Good Question: Prompting Critical Thinking in Students

We ask students questions all day long, but how do we know they are actually helping students learn and, more importantly, getting them to think?

Building Blocks That Matter: Forming Positive Relationships with Students and Families

In my classroom, I focus on taking the time to intentionally and thoughtfully form positive and meaningful relationships with my students.

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.

No More Permission to Pee

As students transition from elementary to high school, teachers have an opportunity to practice gradually releasing control. Restroom privileges are a good place to start.

6 Steps for Remembering Students’ Names in Less than a Week

Over the years, I’ve developed the following steps to help myself remember the names of my students. These tips can be used by any type of teacher at any grade level.

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.

Things I Learned in Teacher’s College

Your time at school will be essential to your teaching life. From my personal experience, I believe the most important part of your teaching program is to do well in your practicum placement.

Percy Jackson in the Classroom: A New Approach to the Novel Study

After teaching ELA for over a decade, I'd come to loathe the novel study. But my opinion changed when I found the Percy Jackson series.

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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

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.

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.

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

Many substitute teachers like me can teach a different grade every single day, from K–12. It can be challenging, to say the least.

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.

The Art of Communication: Interpreting Student Drawings

Teachers are currently under an increasing amount of pressure to interpret their students’ drawings and better understand what can indicate a potential threat.

Failure to Communicate: Ending School Violence

What can be done when facing violence in the classroom? There is no one right answer. It often depends on the student and their individual needs.

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 Future of STEM: Changing Perceptions

If you ask a kid to draw a scientist, most of them will come up with the same image: an elderly man wearing a lab coat and holding a microscope. It’s a stereotype we all know well.

STEM Summer: 5 Excursions to Museums and Science Centres Across Canada

Here are some fun summer excursions that can get you, your family, and your students excited about the wonders of STEM!

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.

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.

Digital Literacy: What does it mean to you?

For me digital literacy involves reading widely, keeping informed, knowing when and how to be critical and when to embrace new information, new ideas. I

5 Resources to Lend Students a Hand with Their Homework

With the right aids to help them during their moments of struggle, kids might be likely to do better in their homework.

STEM in the Real World: Taking Learning Outside the Classroom

Todd Ablett has a simple solution for students who are bored in class: Get them out of the classroom—and into the workshop.

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.

How to Create a Paperless Classroom: Tips for a Digital Learning Environment

Like many of my students, I too use digital devices in my daily personal life, but the enormous piles of notes and paper combined with the constant fighting with the students to put their gadgets away drove me to reevaluate how I could use those very gadgets to my advantage.

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.

Horseback Riding: 6 Introductory Field Trips for Kids

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.