Reading specialist: How to engage students in reading.

The conversation about new teachers often focuses on the challenges they face in the classroom, English teacher Matthew Johnson writes. In this blog post, he shares some strengths that new teachers bring to the table, including fresh ideas, new perspectives and energy.

Students at a Kentucky elementary school have access to a new makerspace thanks, in part, to the help of three educators. The space includes high- and low-tech learning opportunities, including a take-a-part station in which students can disassemble devices to learn more about how they work.

Boothbay Region Elementary School fourth grade teachers Kathy Hartley and Jennifer Lassen have committed themselves and their students to a new concept of learning called oracy. Much like literacy and numeracy – competence in writing, reading and mathematics – oracy is competence in fluent dialogue through critical thinking.

American adolescents watch much more pornography than their parents know — and it’s shaping their ideas about pleasure, power and intimacy. Can they be taught to see it more critically?

Research suggests offspring of highly educated mothers benefit from extended parental leave.

In his series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for the classroom. This time: research looking at self-control.

As kids get older, the activities that cultivate imagination often get sidelined by the demands of academics. Professor Wendy Ostroff explains why imagination is so important and has suggestions for bringing back the spark.

Teacher collaboration can help improve teaching and learning, asserts Les Foltos, director of Peer-Ed. In this blog post, Foltos shares five factors to helping teachers learn to collaborate, including the need for trust.

When students enter your classroom at the beginning of the term there are two questions in their minds - "Can I do the work?" and "Will I be accepted here?" Their potential for success depends on them being able to answer "yes" to both of these questions. The language you use plays a big role…

Those participating in an International Literacy Association survey ranked digital literacy as the hottest topic. However, when asked to rank the items by importance, respondents chose early literacy as the most important topic of the moment.

Are your attempts to integrate mindful moments into you or your students' days falling flat? If mindfulness routines are not natural to the activities your students already enjoy, students may have a hard time adopting these habits. Personalized mindfulness gives students the freedom to choose how they want to return to the present whenever their…