Quality listening takes time and practice to perfect, but it is an essential skill for school leaders, asserts Megan Collins, former teacher and current educational consultant.

This report is an analysis of multiple data sources collected over several months of engagement with educators, parents, and other educational stakeholders. It maps the main challenges, opportunities, support systems, and uses of educational technologies in the English education system since Spring 2020. (pdf)

This report presents the ways in which educational technology can best be used to support teaching and learning for school-aged pupils, particularly when traditional education is disrupted. The work we report here is unique in its synthesis of the multiple voices that contribute to the education ecosystem. It is pragmatic and future facing, with an…

A controversial study that suggested engaging primary schoolchildren in philosophical discussions could also improve their maths and reading has been undermined by new research that found little or no improvements in those subjects.

An online writing group—which could be adapted for in person learning—builds confidence in students’ ability to express their ideas.

As educators approach the one-year mark in pandemic-related school changes, many are experiencing high levels of traumatic stress, assert Christy Tirrell-Corbin, Center for Early Childhood Education and Intervention at the University of Maryland, and Carlomagno Panlilio, Department of Educational Psychology at Penn State University. In this commentary, they suggest short-term solutions, such as focusing on…

Over 20,000 students nationwide use a digital social and emotional learning curriculum offered through Project Wayfinder. The program is rooted in "purpose learning," which encourages students to focus on their own identity, goals and place in the world.

For children learning English, speaking the language can be a way to fit in. But teachers worry that remote learning means some students aren't hearing even casual English outside their classes.

A study in Pediatrics found that youths who engaged in bullying were more likely to abuse tobacco, drugs and alcohol in adulthood, compared with nonbullying peers.

Michelle Russell loves teaching statistics and her students enjoy it too. But it took her a few years to find activities that really engage them and that also reinforce the statistics standards they need to learn. Here are three ideas she recommends for the middle grades.

Effective principals can boost outcomes for students, according to a report released today by the Wallace Foundation that found an above-average principal can produce nearly three additional months of learning in math and reading. Jason Grissom, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an author of the study, said the findings do not discount the effect…

Even pre-pandemic, teachers were creative when choosing instructional materials to use with students. When presented with a recommended or even required curriculum, RAND research has found, teachers exercised great autonomy in modifying teaching materials and finding additional resources to supplement them. So, what do teachers want when it comes to instructional materials, particularly now?