Education

I always loved Fridays with my RTI class because that was our board game day! After brief progress monitoring, we’d dive into various board and card games designed to enhance our students’ numeracy skills. The kids eagerly anticipated these sessions,...

by Terry Heick Education is a series of learning experiences informed by policy, and actuated by teachers. Policy, by its very nature, is sweeping and ambitious. It is designed to work on various scales, is well-intentioned, and often difficult to...

If you want to start a tower garden in your classroom or school, there’s one main thing you need. And it has nothing to do with seeds, plants, or any other supplies and equipment. What you need is data.  As...

Learning management systems (LMSes) are all-in-one suites for teachers and schools. The best learning management system options provide a wide range of tools for planning, administration, communication, grading, and more. There are a lot of LMS choices out there, so...

Discipline is a hot subject of debate in the world of education. Schools are constantly revamping their policies, trying to find ways to better serve all students. But this often feels like an exercise in futility, with more school discipline...

When assistive technology hits the mark, it’s truly transformative. But when it falls short, it can add to the already heavy load teachers carry each day. Lumped in with all the other challenges teachers face, searching out the best assistive...

A lot of math has to do with answering the same question: “How many?” You can count, you can add, you can skip-count, but one of the most efficient and accurate ways to answer the question is by grouping things...

Teaching long vowels involves hearing, reading, and spelling words with lots of different spelling patterns. Teaching long ‘e’ words (like meet and beach) means teaching students the many ways long ‘e’ is spelled. Grab our free printable long ‘e’ word...

Here’s some really cool news for Olympics fans: Teachers can get an exclusive discount on Peacock Premium. The streaming platform is normally $7.99 a month, but educators can subscribe for $2.99 a month for 12 months. In addition to the...

Pre-writing activities for preschoolers not only help our youngest learners learn the shape and structure of the letters in the alphabet, they serve a number of other functions as well. According to education blogger Lisette from Where Imagination Grows, pre-writing...