We asked teachers to share how they most want their principals to show appreciation for the work they do.

Thirty-nine percent of teachers need greater training to effectively use education technology, but administrators assert that tight budgets and competing priorities are preventing them from making such investments, according to a survey from Promethean. The survey also found that teachers want to use more technology in the classroom and expect the use of cloud-based lesson…

Contrary to popular belief about the atmosphere on college campuses, students are able to have and maintain friendships with people they don’t see eye to eye with, a study finds.

Teachers can use sentence stems -- called talk moves -- to help guide elementary-school students in productive discussions in the classroom, writes educator Susan O'Brien. In this blog post, O'Brien shares examples of talk moves in action, such as asking students to elaborate by saying, "Can you say more about that?".

Helping students regain their calm after misbehavior doesn’t mean there are no consequences—it ensures that the right lesson is learned.

How deeply principals should know content areas and how much it matters for helping their teachers is an active debate.

Do your teachers trust you? Do your teachers think you have the skills to help them get better at instruction? Do they know that if a parent complains about them, you will handle the situation fairly? Are you and your teachers on the same page when it comes to student discipline?

Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's learning experience through arts integration are seeing kids thrive.

Pia Brännkärr är doktorand vid Finlands svenskspråkiga universitet, Åbo Akademi i Vasa. Pia arbetar parallellt som universitetslärare i textilslöjd vid Åbo Akademi och är sedan juni 2019 nyantagen doktorand i doktorandprogrammet i pedagogiska vetenskaper: slöjdvetenskap.

Education researchers are considering how to predict when a given assignment will generate the optimal amount of persistence in a student. At issue, researchers say, is that there are different types of persistence, including "productive persistence" and "wheel-spinning."

Childhood — and parenting — have radically changed in the past few decades, to the point where far more children today struggle to manage their behavior. That's the argument Katherine Reynolds Lewis makes in her new parenting book, The Good News About Bad Behavior.