Education

I’ve always broken down the school year into four emotional phases. In the first quarter, students are both excited and a bit cautious. By the second quarter, stretching from mid-fall to the holiday break, we usually find our rhythm and...

Social-emotional skills like identifying and regulating feelings, kindness, sharing, and empathy are all skills that kids learn in early childhood, and they have a huge impact on later success. In fact, one study found that the social-emotional skills that kids...

There’s a lot to love about spirit week. Pep rallies and trivia contests are great activities to highlight an important event like homecoming while boosting student morale. Dress-up days can also build school spirit, but some themes cross the line....

It’s hard enough to know what you can trust online when you’re an adult; for students, it can be even trickier. As educators, we can help by teaching our kids key news literacy concepts, skills, and dispositions. These news literacy...

The first math most kids are aware of doing is counting. At first, it’s just a rote calling out of numbers in sequence. Then it’s almost always by ones as they count objects and learn one-to-one correspondence. That’s foundational. However,...

contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for...

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking by Terry Heick For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has had a surprisingly small impact on education. Most formal academic ‘platforms’ like public schools and universities...

If you could use a new teacher bag this year, then you’ll definitely want to check out this discount from our friends at Dagne Dover—they offer teachers 20% off every day. And while it’s definitely a splurge, we love that...

It’s the spookiest time of year! The weeks leading up to Halloween (or any time you want to study ghosts) are a great time to engage students in some spooky learning. Choose some of our ghost templates to inspire storytelling,...

Labeling a book “great” is a matter of opinion, but when you pile together the opinion of 13 other book-loving folks, you start to get somewhere close to credibility. Alistofbooks.com compiles 13 lists of the greatest books ever published, using...