Students learning to read music need to work on a skill called audiation, which is akin to subvocalization in literacy, writes Brian Campbell, a middle-school band director. Campbell notes in this blog post that teachers can help struggling readers strengthen their "inner voice" by having them reread passages to focus on inflection and rhythm, start…

High-school students in New Jersey are training to be "meditation mentors" for other students. The students, who participate in an eight-week training program, learn to facilitate meditation groups for fellow peers to help support mental and emotional health.

Within our society's growing culture of "busyness," schools have an important counter role to play. One critical antidote to this epidemic of overload is to reorient reading instruction to cultivate intentionally present, mindful readers. Learn five ways to foster immersive reading through daily classroom practice in Educational Leadership.

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For students with mild symptoms of disabilities, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, a diagnosis can do more harm than good, according to a study by Jayanti Owens, a Brown University sociologist. Owens' study shows that students without an ADHD diagnosis, who showed similar symptoms, had better behavioral and reading scores from teachers, than their peers diagnosed…

A new study tested first-time computer code learners to see what skills predicted their success. They found that language abilities were more important than mathematical acumen.

Many people may say that students should deal with a bully by addressing the adversary directly, but that may be misguided, asserts Jeff Nalin, a licensed clinical psychologist plus founder and chief clinical director at Paradigm Malibu Treatment Center. In this blog post, he writes that in some cases it may be best to remove…

Though reading difficulties can be varied and complex, students often have solutions if a school's most valuable resource - the teacher - works backward to find them. When schools commit to teacher expertise, a student can succeed across content areas, grade levels, and language experiences, regardless of what's making reading difficult.

What leaders can do help calm their community and keep students ready to learn.

Nearly 1 in 5 high school students seriously considers suicide in a year. After a cluster of suicides, a district decides it’s time to talk more frankly about the issue.

Research published in the Harvard Educational Review demonstrates the benefits of teaching to Black girls math grounded in social interaction and working together as a team.  

Lecturer Laura Schifter - an expert on federal education policy and special education — explains disproportionality and why so many students of color are placed in special education, often in separate classrooms from their peers. (webb-tv)