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Assessment and Evaluation

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?
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Classroom Perspectives

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.
Education News

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?
Careers and Guidance

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.
Classroom Perspectives

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.
Education News

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.
Classroom Perspectives

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.
Classroom Perspectives

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.
Careers and Guidance

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?
New Teachers

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?

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Assessment and Evaluation

As Temperatures Rise, Math Scores Drop

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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.
Book Lists

Mindset Matters: 4 Metaphors to Shift Your Thinking About ADHD

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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.
Education News

Kid Spark Education Launches Transformative Early Childhood STEM and Literacy Program

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New hands-on program helps young learners build curiosity, confidence, and foundational STEM and literacy skills.
Education News

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

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

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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

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

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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.

Using Art as Activism: Change Beyond School Borders

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Not only do visual arts classes make space in a student’s day for creativity, they can also offer a chance to focus on something bigger.

Better Serving Introverts in the Classroom

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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.

Collaborating in a School with No Library

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

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

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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.

Discover Your Teaching Style: Are You More Like a Cat or Dog?

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I recently observed a high school science lesson that left me feeling like I had just swished some super-minty Listerine. I was refreshed. I was inspired…so much so, in fact, that I built and entire upcoming PD session around my takeaway from this lesson. I will return to this in just a moment.

Becoming Black: Reconciling Race Relations as an Afro-Caribbean Educator

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As a Caribbean immigrant educator, I have had to adapt to the United States in several ways—racially, socially, and academically.

Everything Is Awe-some: Showing Young Students the Power of Awe

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The topic of awe couldn’t be more timely. I’ve never seen such an urgent need to address social-emotional issues in and out of the classroom as I do now.

Why I Became a Middle School Teacher

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Starting to feel slightly worn out in my current role, I wanted to avoid burning out altogether, so decided that it was time for a change.
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Reading Lists

15 New and Upcoming Books for Student Activists

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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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10 Books That Tackle Bullying

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

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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

Failure to Communicate: Ending School Violence

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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.

Student Sleep Health Week Highlights the Powerful Connection Between Sleep and Well-Being

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The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is hosting its sixth annual Student Sleep Health Week from September 15–19, bringing together families, educators, and community groups to highlight the importance of healthy sleep for students of all ages.

Empowering Minds: A Fresh Approach to Mental Health in Schools

Karen G. Foley - 0
Kids today face numerous challenges to their mental well-being, like social media comparisons and online bullying, leaving long-term effects.

Helping Students Manage Test Anxiety

Meagan Gillmore - 0
Both tests and anxiety are, for better or worse, a part of school life. Students may not be able to avoid test anxiety, but they do need to learn how to manage it.

Calmer Classrooms, One Breath at a Time: How Meditation Can Transform Behavioural Health

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As we work to build classrooms that nurture both academic and emotional success, meditation serves as a simple yet powerful tool.

Food Allergies: It Only Takes One Bite

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Food allergy is a growing health concern in North America and for good reason. Too many kids are having allergic reactions and going into anaphylactic shock while at school.
Back to School

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

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.

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.

Implementing 4 Types of Memory in your Classroom

Triggering different types of memory to improve students long-term storage.

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.

Learning with Podcasts

Podcasts are increasingly popular: one-third of Americans say they’ve listened to one in the past month. This emerging technology could play a key role in the K–12 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.

Encouraging Creativity in Lesson Plans

It can be incredibly easy to treat lesson planning like a checklist. Objective: check. Standards: check. Activity: check. Education experts say there is a better way.

Complex Learning Environments: The ESL Challenge

For K–12 teachers of English as a Second Language, the shifting nature of the ESL population is creating a new set of classroom challenges.

Bridging Content Gaps: The Importance of Vertical Alignment

It is imperative that teachers are aware of how their subject or subjects are vertically aligned from other grade levels, both below and above.

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Field Trips

7 Immersive Art Adventures for Kids

Nupur Bagoria -
Art education works best when it’s interactive, engaging, and yes, even a little messy.
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Learning with LEGO: 6 Build-and-Play Field Trips for Students

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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.
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Treat Yourself to These 5 Tasty Chocolate Factory Tours

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

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.

Rocking Out with RobenX: Enhancing Student Resilience Through Collaboration

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

The Beat Goes On: The Struggle to Teach Music

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Music education leads to improved self-discipline, sense of community, and collaboration, as well as increased academic achievement in other subjects.

Marching to the Beat of Their Own Drum: The Magic of High School Bands 

Adam Stone - 0
TEACH Magazine talked to leaders at some of the top marching band schools in the U.S., to get a sense of why band matters and what it takes to run a successful program.

How (and Why) to Make Classrooms More Musical

Sara Leila Sherman and Morton Sherman - 0
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.

Engaging Autistic Students with the Arts

Christine Hughes - 0
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.

Jazzing Up History Class

Andre Benito Mountain - 0
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.”

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