In addition to experiencing their own primary trauma separate from the schoolyard, teachers can also feel the effects of students' trauma during the pandemic.

Educators who encounter children facing trauma, present and past, can draw on practices that help all students - like building relationships and helping kids create their own "wellness tools" to handle challenging emotions. Read how learning coach Brandi Clark weaves children's literature and art into practices like these in Educational Leadership.

An analysis of school anti-bullying programs suggests that many don't work because they disempower bullying victims, making situations worse.

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Kindergarten is designed for young children, who learn best by doing. And while pre-literacy and math skills are covered, building block towers, playing make-believe and mastering the playground equipment are also critical elements.

The psychologist, researcher, and MacArthur Fellow Angela Duckworth believes that to make better decisions in our school systems, we need to rethink the way we measure student capabilities.

Teachers can prioritize building relationships with students to support social-emotional learning, according to Marilee Sprenger, a veteran educator and international educational consultant. In this article, Sprenger shares how focusing on six SEL competencies can help teachers support students who have experienced trauma and stress in their lives.

Math, science and reading teachers can benefit from instructional coaching or teacher leaders, and research suggests such assistance may provide a better return on investment than other types of professional development. Academic specialists in Greenville County Schools in South Carolina have used multitiered support, monthly meetings and targeted coaching for teachers to help improve struggling…

Chronicling the school year in an online portfolio is a solo form of professional development for educators to track accomplishments and it allows for later reflection. Education consultant Monica Burns recommends that educators spend just a few minutes each week to document activities and resources used in class, photos taken and a few sentences of…

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has released an approach to teaching reading. Under the approach - which calls for "rebalancing" literacy - greater emphasis is placed on teaching children to recognize spoken words before recognizing written words.

There are several available resources to help develop students' news literacy skills, writes Kimberly Rues, a prekindergarten-to-sixth-grade librarian in Missouri. In this commentary, Rues discusses the News Literacy Project and Stanford History Education Group Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum, which can help students think critically about the news they consume online.

The shift from in-person to remote learning is giving some teachers unprecedented video access into their students’ homes.