How do you find the time to grow professionally and be a lifelong learner while also being a rock star with your students? In this Inservice post, ASCD Emerging Leader Rachael George shares five strategies and approaches for educators to keep your own professional development and learning integrated seamlessly into your life.

Choose your top priority when choosing new learning tools.

Schools can leverage technology such as Google Hangouts, Periscope live-streams and Twitter hashtag conversations to create more opportunities for online students to connect, education consultant Eric Stoller writes in this blog post.

Boost students' higher-level thinking skills with apps.

Digital tools are improving language learning and translation but will not replace humans' ability to understand the order of natural languages, writes David Arbesu, a Spanish-language professor at the University of South Florida.

Momentum continues to grow for using formative assessments as an alternative to traditional multiple-choice testing, writes Measured Progress' Stuart Kahl. In this commentary, Kahl asserts that technology was not used enough in assessments during the era of No Child Left Behind.

Folkeskolen er på rette vej, når den satser på mere fysisk aktivitet for eleverne, konkluderer rapport fra Vidensrådet for Forebyggelse.  

By identifying thinking routines for students, teachers can help deepen metacognitive skills that are applicable to all areas of life.

Det finns ingen mirakellösning på skolans problem, men det finns väldigt mycket kunskap som hjälper till att förstå och hantera utmaningar som lärare dagligen står inför. Det säger Silvia Edling, docent i didaktik vid Högskolan i Gävle.

Barn med funksjonshemninger skulle inkluderes med jevnaldrende. I virkeligheten blir de satt mer utenfor jo eldre de blir. Idealet om inkludering har svunnet i takt med det økte prestasjonspresset i skolen, mener forskere.