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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Education News

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.

Kids Write 4 Kids 2025 Contest Now Open for Young Canadian Authors

Ripple Foundation invites students in Grades 4–8 from across Canada to submit their original stories to the annual Kids Write 4 Kids contest, open until March 31, 2026.

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.

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.

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Classroom Perspectives

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.

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.

Guardians of the Coast: Building Kids’ Confidence Through Art

I was recently involved with an art exhibition in the Thanet District of Kent, England, that helped students see themselves as artists, advocates, and changemakers.

5 Ways to Incorporate Mindfulness with Your Students

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

Leading Our School’s First (and Last) Justice Committee

When my principal asked if I would like to lead our school’s new Justice, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee, I was both surprised and delighted.

Teaching Art History Online: A Visual Journey in the Digital Age

Teaching art history in an entirely online environment has brought a new set of challenges and opportunities that I’ve come to embrace with enthusiasm.

Change Your Classroom with Gratitude

Often, we forget our students come to class each day with a lot more on their minds than academics. Despite this, my students willingly express gratitude each morning.

Crafting Connections: A Teacher’s Heartfelt Gift

I am a primary school teacher from East Oxford, and last year I crocheted a “mini-me” of each child in my class as an end-of-year gift.

Creating a Reading Culture (Even When You’re Low on Time and Funds)

"Why read when you can watch the movie?" In my eight years as an educator, no other sentiment has been quite so crushing to hear from children.

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Reading Lists

12 Children’s Books to Read for Hanukkah

Light up your Hanukkah celebrations with these festive new books.

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.

15 Winter Holiday Books for Kids

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

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Assessment & Evaluation

Reframing Student Data for Growth

A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. This mindset shapes how we view data.

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.

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?

Snow Days: Creating Distance Learning Opportunities

School closures, especially lengthy ones, may cause some teachers to worry if lost time will keep them from completing curriculum or put students at a disadvantage.

Reinventing Education, Serving Humanity

When thinking about what schools of the future will look like, it’s hard to imagine them without grades, exams, or even subjects.

Practical Tips to Prevent Plagiarism

Students plagiarize. But they don’t create the problem. Assignments need to require more than Google searches to complete.

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.

Social-Emotional Learning

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.

Building a Listening Culture: A Conversation with Christine Miles

In our discussion with educator, author, and keynote speaker Christine Miles, we explore the often-invisible crisis of listening in education.

A Smart Gateway to SEL: Digital Libraries

Introducing smART breaks: a free digital arts library that teaches SEL competencies to elementary school children.

Teaching “What to do”: Effective Autism Intervention

The newest studies will tell you that 1 in 68 children are now born with autism. This is a jaw-dropping increase from previous statistics.

4 Senior Care Facilities That Support Service-Learning

Enabling students to gain experience caring for those in need can promote their social-emotional development, instilling values such as understanding, empathy, tolerance, and compassion.

Empathy: The Language of Emotion

Empathy—the ability to recognize and understand another person’s feelings—is an extremely important life skill.

Helping Students Learn Through Grief

Sometimes, adults assume children are too young to experience grief. But if you’re capable of feeling love, you’re capable of feeling loss.

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.

Change Your Classroom with Gratitude

Often, we forget our students come to class each day with a lot more on their minds than academics. Despite this, my students willingly express gratitude each morning.

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Indoor Activities

5 Free Exercise Resources to Keep Students Active

Making sure kids get enough exercise during the colder months of the year can be a challenge. Here are some resources to help get them up and moving.

4 Arts and Crafts Workshops for Kids

While the winter season may narrow your field trip options, a visit to an indoor arts and crafts workshop may be a great way for students to release some of their pent-up energy.

Get Students Moving with the Help of These 6 Gymnastics Clubs

Looking for a fun indoor activity to help your students burn off some energy? Look no further than a local gymnastics club!

The Arts

Crafting Connections: A Teacher’s Heartfelt Gift

I am a primary school teacher from East Oxford, and last year I crocheted a “mini-me” of each child in my class as an end-of-year gift.

4 Arts and Crafts Workshops for Kids

While the winter season may narrow your field trip options, a visit to an indoor arts and crafts workshop may be a great way for students to release some of their pent-up energy.

Teaching Art History Online: A Visual Journey in the Digital Age

Teaching art history in an entirely online environment has brought a new set of challenges and opportunities that I’ve come to embrace with enthusiasm.

Explorations in Biology Through Origami, 3D Modeling, and Optical Illusions

Blending art and biology through hands-on paper-folding activities is a fun and unique way to engage students at the elementary level.

7 Apps to Foster Student Creativity

Help your students dust off their thinking caps with these apps that are designed to inspire imagination and spark creativity.

From Concepts to Kicks: Bringing Art to Life

As an elementary school art teacher, it is my job to engage my students and get them thinking critically about what and how they create.

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.