Teacher leadership is valuable for student achievement and the teaching profession, writes Sean Slade, director of whole child programs at ASCD. Still, greater planning, purpose and intent is needed for effective teacher-leadership models, he writes in this blog post.

Learning devices of the future will allow for anytime, anywhere learning and allow students to share data and material more easily across devices, according to a young innovator, a futurist and the CEO of the One-to-One Institute. In this article, they speculate about what classrooms will look like in the future.

"Despite being a fairly universal goal of educators and education systems, producing lifelong learners is not a process that has a set of concrete steps," writes Inservice guest blogger Kelly Morgan Dempewolf.

Students with older siblings performed better on primary-school tests and the General Certificate of Secondary Education, according to a recent study. The researchers from the University of Essex call this trend the "spillover effect."

Educators and students in the southern African country of Lesotho now have more access to homework lessons and quizzes, thanks to a pilot programme. The programme includes teacher-approved lessons in subjects such as maths, geography, English and agriculture.

More than 25% of students in Hong Kong are overweight or obese, according to a University of Hong Kong study. Researchers found that lower fitness levels could be attributed to the focus there on academics.

Schools have an obligation to be mindful of the workload they place on students' shoulders, writes Thomas Bonnell, teacher and administrator in schools.

New guidance allows headteachers to remove a child from class if their conduct is detrimental to the education or welfare of other students. But is this risky?

In order to develop creative individuals, children need environments that nurture their interests. Between standards and testing, how much of that are they getting at school?

From making edible art using bird seed to turning your classroom into a twitcher’s den, there are plenty of ways to get involved with this year’s Big Schools’ Birdwatch.

Vi behöver undvika undervisningens tomma lådor och fylla dem med att eleverna får engagera sig i ämnet matematik. Det skriver Lisa Björklund Boistrup, matematik-didaktiskt inriktad forskare vid Linköpings universitet och Stockholms universitet i en krönika.

Eleverna som kommer till Vintertullsskolan bär på många misslyckanden. Därifrån går de ofta vidare till gymnasiet med återvunnet självförtroende. De har ett gemensamt: de kom ingen vart i den vanliga skolan.