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“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.

Empowering Learners Starts Within: The Key to Unlocking Their Full Potential

When we prioritize emotional health, we don’t just teach students—we empower them to lead, to dream, and to thrive.

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?

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.

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?

Absenteeism Is Predictable. We Must Learn to Read the Patterns.

Absenteeism is predictable. The signs are there. You just need to know how to read them.

The Most Powerful Reading Tool? Passion

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

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.

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.

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

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.

5 Ways to Incorporate Mindfulness with Your Students

Now is the perfect opportunity for teachers and students to develop consistent mindfulness practices, together.

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.

Planting Seeds of Knowledge: Life Lessons from an Educational Farm

Waynesboro Education Farm is an ambitious project. It sits on 1.5 acres of land adjacent to Berkeley Glenn Elementary school in the city of Waynesboro, VA.

Teaching Kids to Read: Modern Approaches vs. Montessori Method

At first glance, the Montessori method and the Science of Reading appear to be opposing philosophies. But if you look closer, they are in fact surprisingly similar.

The Value of Accessing Professional Development in Your First Years of Teaching

After my first week of being in a long-term occasional role, it became very clear to me that learning about being in the classroom is not the same as actually being in the classroom.

Celebrating Heritage: A Student-Led Journey Across Cultures

In today’s diverse classrooms, fostering cultural awareness is essential in order to create inclusive and engaging learning environments

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.

Real (and Really Funny) Math

I'm an author of math books, which may sound like a dry job, but that’s exactly why I do it. It’s my goal to show kids that math can be fun (and funny!)

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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

Teaching Truth and Reconciliation: Exploring Residential Schools in Canada

As the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s mandate ends, there’s a greater emphasis on teaching Aboriginal content in schools. If this scares you, you’re not alone. If it inspires you, you’re not alone either.

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.

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.

Laying the Foundation: Treaty Education for Young Students

Teaching junior elementary school students about treaties can be a daunting task for even the most experienced educators.

Healing through Art: The Legacy of the Williams Treaties

As we reflect on the Williams Treaties, their history, and their impact on the communities they affected, we grapple with issues of colonialism, land rights, and healing.

What Is a Treaty?

Treaties are agreements between Indigenous nations and the government. They provide a potential framework for co-existence on the land that is now called Canada.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Collaborating in a School with No Library

Do you remember the first time you entered the school library as a child? I do. There were books everywhere.

Special Needs: An Insider’s Perspective

Dear teacher, you’ve taught us about different types of writing. So, I thought I’d practice by writing to you about teaching me. And “me” is a student who has a disability.

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.

Ditch the Desk and Embrace the Flex

I began the school year in a classroom with eighteen standard desks. Today, I have none. This isn’t a lament about budgetary constraints or overcrowded classrooms; it’s a deliberate choice.

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.

Addressing LGBTQ+ Bullying in Your School

Almost two million LGBTQ+ teenagers consider suicide each year. Does this statistic scare you? If not, it should.

What Is SOGI? Getting the Terminology Right

Gender fluid. Two-spirit. Trans. Cisgender. These are some of the terms students can use to describe where they are on the spectrum of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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.

Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Curriculum

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

Breaking Boundaries: Women’s Lives In and Out of the Closet

By removing the phrase “male person” from the crime of gross indecency in 1954, the Canadian government declared sex between women a crime.

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.