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Rethinking Continuity: How Looping Can Transform Classrooms

Students perform better when they experience a stable environment with consistent relationships. One way to achieve this is through looping.

Learning About Money Should Feel Less Like Homework and More Like Real Life

It’s time to start rethinking financial education for the digital generation. Here’s how.

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.

The Most Powerful Reading Tool? Passion

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

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.

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.

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?

“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.

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?

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

Why I Became a Middle School Teacher

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.

Transforming the Class with Google Apps

When I reflect on my years working in classrooms with students, I think about how much time it took to access and use essential technology B.G. (before Google). I compare it with what it must have been like for people before electricity and after electricity. B.G.

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.

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.

Social Media, but with Paragraphs: Using Substack to Reflect and Connect

After 17 years of mostly reflection-free teaching, I’ve finally found the perfect space to force myself to stop, step back, and think about what I’m teaching. That place is Substack.

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.

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.

When Plagiarism Meets Policy: How an Academic Dishonesty Case Taught Me an Important Lesson

During my time as a program coordinator, I learned a lesson that has stuck with me ever since: school values don’t collapse in one dramatic moment, but rather erode one decision at a time.

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

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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

Making Rose Hip Tea from Scratch: A Math Activity

This collaboration between the Library Learning Commons, a Grade 9 math teacher, and Indigenous Education blossomed into a beautiful place-conscious learning opportunity.

Land of Incalculable Value: A Williams Treaties Overview

In 1923, three parcels of land in southern Ontario were the subject of a legal process that defined how they could be used and who would control 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

What is Snoezelen? Understanding Sensory Environments for Special Needs Children

Envision walking into a room designed by the King or Queen of Imagination and endless possibility. The room is dimly lit and you feel safe and calm. Its white walls bring a sense of peace and tranquility that you have never felt before.

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.

How to Calm Explosive Student Behaviour

An inability to function socially or emotionally is as much of a learning disability as the inability to read. The tragedy of our time is that few people recognize it as such.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Education for Everyone: 25 Years of Inclusivity

The broader societal impact of the Modernization of Benefit and Obligations Act helped set the stage for changes in education and LGBTQIA2S+ representation in Canadian schools.

10 Books That Celebrate Queer Voices

As LGBTQ+ rights are increasingly targeted around the world, there’s never been a more crucial time to uplift and celebrate queer stories.

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.

“Try to Lay Low”: Growing Up Gay Pre-1969 Canada

It isn’t easy to teach the history of homosexuality in Canada. We interviewed three gay men who were there and remember what it was like growing up before Decriminalization.

Recognizing Same-Sex Couples: Bill C-23, Explained

Bill C-23, titled the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act, was a landmark moment in Canada’s history.

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.