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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?

Should Teachers Be Allowed to Strike?

A troubling pattern has begun to emerge. Across Canada, and indeed across much of the Western world, governments are increasingly turning to heavy-handed legislative tools to suppress strikes and silence dissent.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Education News

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.

New Sustainability Procurement Guidelines Help Schools Build a Cleaner, More Efficient Future

New report by CoSN, SETDA, and UDT provides K–12 leaders with a practical roadmap to make responsible technology purchasing decisions.

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Classroom Perspectives

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.

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.

Anti-racism and Activist Education: Empowering the Next Generation

Educators play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of changemakers, especially when it comes to addressing racism.

Rocking Out with RobenX: Enhancing Student Resilience Through Collaboration

Thanks to a collaboration with musician and anti-bullying advocate RobenX, I discovered many strategies for reaching students in new and lasting ways.

Expressive Writing on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

My students needed to experience success. And they needed to see that their writing could impact a broader audience than the one held captive each day in their classroom.

PBS Math Club Builds Confidence for ESL Students

I was browsing YouTube for simplified math tutorials one afternoon when I stumbled upon the PBS Kids Math Club—math tutorial videos geared toward teens.

Little School, Big Heart: A Friendly Fundraising Competition to Fight Malaria

The Spread the Net Student Challenge is a friendly competition between Canadian schools to raise funds for malaria-preventing bed nets for families in Africa.

Beyond Fame, Fortune, and Followers: Inspiring Students to Redefine Success

I’ve started to notice a troubling trend among my students: many of them equate success with fame, followers, or a fat bank account.

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?

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Reading Lists

10 Picture Books About Wildlife

These books help raise discussions with students about animal welfare, endangered species, and the diverse array of wildlife around the world.

15 Winter Holiday Books for Kids

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

10 Unique Poetry Books for Kids

Poetry offers students a chance to play with words and experiment with writing structures, and can be an innovative way to bring joy to reading.

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Special Education

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.

Making the Case for Dogs in the Classroom

These days there is an increased demand—and need—for therapy or service dogs in the classroom. But one of the problems with dogs at school is a lack of national standards.

Learning English Is Tough—Now Imagine Doing It with Dyslexia

How can we create truly inclusive environments that support students with dyslexia in our multilingual classrooms?

How to Be a Good Communication Partner

Here are 5 tips from an SLP to teach students to be more inclusive of classmates with communication disorders.

Navigating Dyslexia: How to Help Kids Succeed in School and Beyond

Technology can be a classroom boon for those who are dyslexic. Computer-based experiences can promote social emotional learning, while apps can help to promote reading skills.

Engaging Autistic Students with the Arts

Ask any educator who has welcomed multiple learners with autism into his or her classroom, and you will find there is no set formula for ensuring academic success.

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?

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

5 Virtual Field Trips to Get Your Students Ready for Winter

Check out some of the coldest places on Earth with these winter-themed virtual field trips—no survival gear required!

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.”

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.

Artificial Intelligence

Whose Face Belongs Here? Navigating Race in the World of AI

Teachers need support not only in understanding the tools, but also in managing the ethical, cultural, and emotional complexities that AI brings to the classroom.

Common Sense Media Releases New AI Toolkit for School Districts

The toolkit provides teachers and district leaders with practical tools to facilitate AI adoption.

Reading Engagement Insights Added to Beanstack’s AI-Powered Benny

Beanstack expands its responsible use of AI to measure students’ positive experience with reading.

Forewarned Is Forearmed: A Futurist’s Opinion

Over the past ten years, the world as we know it has transformed in astonishing ways. As a result, so has the world of education.

That’s a Rap: Using Hip-Hop as a Tool for Learning

I, among other things, define myself as a rapper, and it’s a fact of which my students are all too aware.

Newly Launched History AI Chat Helps Students to Search World History Encyclopedia

With over 420 million peer-reviewed historical documents and resources, World History Encyclopedia’s AI Chat now makes it easier for students to sift through those resources to find answers to their questions.

Revolutionizing Education: How AI Can Empower Teachers in the Classroom

While AI is still an emerging technology, educators and K–12 advocates say it has the potential to make life better for teachers.