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Giving Conflict Back: The Secret to Effective Restorative Practices

Here’s how I restored an elementary school’s staff culture from a feud 20 years in the making (with help from a 1970s criminologist).

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?

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.

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?

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Alumni Success Stories: Inspiring Hope During the Opioid Crisis

I am a teacher in southern West Virginia, a region defined by stereotypes and hit hard by America’s opioid epidemic.

Thinking Like a Teen: Teaching the Charter to Grade 9 Students

In my experience with teaching the Charter, a great way to connect the priorities of fifteen-year-olds with the values of this significant document is by thinking like a teen.

Read-Aloud Mentors: From Reluctant Readers to Inspiring Leaders

As a newer interventionist, I faced a formidable task: engage reluctant readers and address their needs with minimal resources for an entire 90 minutes.

Growing a Gender-Inclusive Biology Curriculum

Biology is the study of a diverse range of living things, and biology affirms all genders.

Network Ninja: Teaching Digital Citizenship

Under the umbrella of Digital Citizenship (DC) are some complex concepts. Netiquette, Internet safety, information usage and cyber bullying are just a few of the topics that teachers explore as they help students unpack what it means to use technology responsibly. Our school went wireless this past January.

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

Many substitute teachers like me can teach a different grade every single day, from K–12. It can be challenging, to say the least.

8 Tips for the New Techy Teacher

Here is some helpful advice for educators just beginning the long journey to establishing a successful, effective technology classroom.

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.

How Screens Affect Kids’ Circadian Rhythms

I see sleepy kids every day in my 8th grade English class. Their heads are drooping. Their eyes are barely open. Their energy is low.

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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

Breathe, Focus, and Learn: 3 Simple Exercises That Prepare Students for Academic Success

When practiced regularly, breathing techniques can become powerful self-regulation tools that serve students throughout their academic lives and beyond.

Managing an Allergy-Free Classroom

Classrooms present numerous opportunities for allergic reactions, and everyone has a role to play in keeping children with food allergies safe.

Vocal Care for Teachers: Essential Tips to Protect Your Voice

As an educator, taking care of your voice is everything. Thankfully, there are plenty of steps you can take to help keep your voice healthy and prevent damage and voice loss.

Put Down the Chalk and Retire: Life Lessons After Leaving the Classroom

As a teacher, you’re on the clock 24/7. Retirement—where every day is unscheduled, wide open, and full of possibilities—may seem like a dream.

Stress: Coping Techniques and How to Use Them

Stress can be useful: it fires up our brains and bodies. But sometimes we are so overrun by physiological and emotional symptoms that we can’t focus on the problem.

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.

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

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.

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.

Unicycles: A Lesson for Learning Complex Skills

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

The Beat Goes On: The Struggle to Teach Music

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

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.

5 Music Apps for Kids

Music is a meaningful component of children’s development. Here are a few apps that can help incorporate more music into kids' day-to-day routines.

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.

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.”