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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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

Education News

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.

Engaging Every Learner: How This Free Tool Can Transform Classroom and Home Learning

Random Wheel Spin is a fully customizable wheel of names spinner with additional activities that can be added beneath each name. This tool offers a lightweight but powerful solution to the ever-present problem of student engagement.

Newton’s Grove School Student-Led Initiative Supporting the Homeless Launches This December

Through the second annual Bites of Kindness initiative, two sisters are once again taking action to spread kindness and make a meaningful difference in their community.

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Classroom Perspectives

Social Dynamics and Black Culture: How to Effectively Reach and Teach Black Students

In my role as a Black counselor in an educational setting, I am tasked with the unspoken responsibility of “handling” Black children.

I am Teacher, A Poem for Educators

I am Teacher. I can wear fifteen different hats on my head and not one of them from the same shop.

Teaching Through Grief: What Happens When Educators Need Help

University training prepares educators for a lot of scenarios on the job. But what it doesn’t prepare them for is the inevitable grief that comes with it.

Keeping Kids Reading During the Age of Remote Learning

It is my job to motivate and mold my students, to keep them engaged, to build reading and writing confidence in all who enter my virtual classroom.

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.

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.

A Teacher’s Take On Graphic Novels

Are graphic novels a lesser form of writing? Parents and children often have opposing views when it comes to this unique and beautifully crafted type of literature.

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.

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.

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Reading Lists

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.

10 Books That Tackle Bullying

Share these books with your students to spark meaningful conversations about bullying and empower them to stand up for themselves and others.

15 Books About Space and Astronomy

From books about the Big Bang to poems about planets, and everything in between, you’re sure to have a blast with these stellar reads.

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Mental Health & Well-being

5 Mindfulness Programs for Educators

The first step to include mindfulness in schools is to provide training to teachers. Here are just some of the many mindfulness educator workshops offered in Canada.

Building Bridges: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Transforming Classrooms

Utilizing trauma-informed practices can help create a welcoming and inclusive environment that allows students to feel comfortable and valued.

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.

Drugs and the Classroom: A Teacher’s Strategy

This past year, in a small Midwest community, we lost a student to a drug overdose. We have lost many more to drug addiction, and although we haven’t attended their funerals, they are no longer the students we once knew, while some are unrecognizable.

Be Well to Do Well: Practicing Good Posture in the Classroom 

No matter if we are still or moving, awareness of our posture, patterns, and breathing contribute to keeping our bodies healthy and happy.

Whole Child, Whole School: Prioritizing Student Wellness

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

5 Things Educators Need to Know to Combat Burnout This Year

These essential mindset shifts will help you avoid common pitfalls that lead to burnout and, instead, allow you to thrive as a highly effective educator.

Learning Styles

Better Serving Introverts in the Classroom

As curriculums move away from an emphasis on content to skills, the time is right to use that move as an opportunity to better serve introverts in school.

Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills

Can unicycles serve an important educational purpose? Are there good pedagogical reasons for learning to ride them?

Flipped Classrooms Explained: Learn at Home, Practice in Class

Teachers are constantly look for ways to make best use of their limited class time. That’s one reason why many have taken to “flipping” their classrooms in recent years.

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.

No Brainer: Using AI in the Classroom

Many AI products impact and improve our daily lives. These AI technologies and products may be beneficial to the teachers in the classroom.

Different Learning Styles: Allowing Children to “Unmold”

When trying to instil values, kids are like modelling clay, but when analyzing the way they learn, there is an urgency to allow kids to unmold.

Escape Rooms: Unlocking Learning for Every Child

Escape rooms are multidisciplinary and purposefully designed with variety in mind. They require diverse thinking and allow multiple learning styles to thrive simultaneously.

Why Boys Aren’t Learning

The concept that boys and girls learn differently is not new. Many researchers say boys face an upward struggle from primary school on.

Science Fairs: The Missing Piece of the Education Puzzle

I have always been interested in building things from scratch, so when I first heard about my school's science fair club, I signed up immediately.

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Field Trips

7 Immersive Art Adventures for Kids

Art education works best when it’s interactive, engaging, and yes, even a little messy.

Learning with LEGO: 6 Build-and-Play Field Trips for Students

It’s all about LEGOs! Yes, these little plastic bricks have transcended from a humble childhood toy box staple to a popular and sophisticated educational tool.

Treat Yourself to These 5 Tasty Chocolate Factory Tours

Chocolate factory tours offer unique—and delicious—ways to learn about the process of making chocolate and the origins of cacao beans.

Music

The Power of Music and Melody: Using Songs to Engage Young Learners

By harnessing the power of music, teachers can create a lively and dynamic atmosphere that also improves concentration, focus, and retention.

Jazzing Up History Class

Educators teaching history may find guidance in the genius of Miles Davis’ advice to musicians, “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”

5 Virtual Concerts and Music Workshops to Share with Students

These virtual concerts, workshops, and resources are great opportunities to show students all the joys and wonders that music can bring.

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.

How (and Why) to Make Classrooms More Musical

Music is a language that reaches across age, culture, and ability. And when we learn to use it with care and creativity, it becomes one of the most accessible and powerful tools we have in education.

Why the Ukulele Belongs in the Classroom: Engaging Students with Music

Making music with a ukulele is a great group learning experience. Ukuleles are a good size and price, and they contain levels of complexity.

Key Lessons We Can Learn from High School Musicals

Musicals form an important part of the arts, serving as powerful resources for student learning, engagement, and motivation.