In a school made up of just 10% African American students, after the bell rang, more than half of the students still in the halls were African American. This made me wonder if Black kids are allowed to roam the halls all over America’s urban landscape.

Before a student learns to calculate, measure, or code, they must first believe that something new is possible. In that sense, imagination is not a supplement to STEM. It is the beginning of it.

As educators, we aim to create meaningful, exciting, and supportive futures for all of our students. That’s why we must build learning environments where positive disability identities grow.

There’s something profoundly meaningful about engaging with the works of Black authors. Their words invite us to reflect, grow, and better understand one another.

Educator well-being has suddenly become a buzzword. This isn’t a bad thing—on the contrary, we should have been caring more about the well-being of educators long ago.

As educators, we are rarely asked to sit with the histories of our city and consider how they influence our pedagogy, curriculum, and relationship with the community.

Reality TV star and superyacht captain Sandy Yawn speaks with us about how her educational program is creating opportunities for young people to thrive in the maritime industry.

When the RCMP Crisis Negotiation Unit visited my high school law class, I expected some interesting guest speakers. What I didn’t expect was just how profoundly they would change the way my students communicated.

Is going to university still worth it? That’s a question I hear more and more often these days. The answer increasingly depends on what a student wants from that degree.

My journey began in Vancouver 30 years ago, as an aid with Trainable Mentally Handicapped students. Designated as ‘uneducable,’ these students were relegated to gaining work experience. Noticing they easily recounted movie plots and the artists and lyrics Top 40 songs, it occurred to me that the real handicap might be a teaching methodology that was incompatible with their learning styles.

With K–12 schools increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals, there are steps classroom teachers can take to help their schools avoid falling prey to ransomware.

There’s a greater push to teach kids computer coding at school. But you don’t need to be a technology whiz to introduce it to your students.

Password management can be a daunting classroom challenge for K–12 educators. Here we’ll take a deep dive into some of the more effective solutions for getting kids logged in.

There’s much that can be done to help keep kids safe online. Parents and students can work together on this, and there’s a role for teachers and school administrators as well.

If you ask a kid to draw a scientist, most of them will come up with the same image: an elderly man wearing a lab coat and holding a microscope. It’s a stereotype we all know well.

Attend one of these field trips to get students practicing their coding skills.

Grammatically, it’s an awful-sounding word: gamification, or as a verb, to “gamify” the classroom. Teachers, however, have found a powerful tool here.

I wanted to design a new project that could be about classes working together, communicating, and listening to each other.