Play Works Studio games aimed at engaging girls in science, programming.

A school garden allows a Pennsylvania learning-support teacher to incorporate math, reading, science and nutrition into hands-on lessons for students in first through fourth grades. Each Friday, students are able to taste the fruits of their labor after a cooking class.

Teachers can use the "backwards design" process to create goals and steps to establish a strong classroom culture, instructional coach Lily Jones writes in this blog post.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan has indicated that school-discipline policies must be updated. In this blog post, Fania Davis, co-founder and executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, suggests how administrators, educators and parents can use restorative, rather than punitive, practices to support safe learning environments.

Developers inspired by the lack of computer-programming classes available for children have created robotics companies to teach children as young as 5 how to code. Marina Umaschi Bers, a professor at Tufts University and a KinderLabs Robotics co-founder, says early exposure to programming is essential for developing many skills.

"Seeing the growth of a student over the years is an amazing privilege, and students give me hope for the future," writes ASCD Emerging Leader Annie Huynh.

Need some out-of-this-world lesson ideas to help you teach about space and the planets? Here are the best resources from the Guardian Teacher Network.

Studies show learning another language helps people develop cognitive advantages that improve attention.

Some parents will stop at nothing to ensure their child passes grammar school entrance exams. But the stress leaves some students traumatised.

An encouraging new report describes preliminary, first-year outcomes from a study of 3,000 middle school students that shows kids can, in fact, learn more in science classrooms that adopt a well-designed, project-focused curriculum.

Maria Göransson är förskollärare på Skattkistan i Fränsta. Det är en av de första profilerade äventyrsförskolorna i Sverige. "Vi arbetar med upplevelsebaserat lärande där sagoberättandet har en central roll"", säger hon.

Barbro Lindgren har väckt många elevers läslust genom åren med ett hundratal böcker, bland annat ”Loranga, Masarin och Dartanjang” och Sparvel-serien.