In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

A study conducted by researchers at USC Rossier and Yale University, reviewing 40 separate studies, found that ...

Educators can confidently access vetted, standards-aligned resources directly inside their Google Classroom lesson planning ...

This lesson is based on the documentary "Your Serve or Mine." Although there may not be time to use the entire documentary, short excerpts from the film are available ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Researchers have found that one key way to encourage intrinsic motivation to learn is by making classroom lessons relevant to students’ lives. This element is constant—whether we’re doing remote ...

Video can be a powerful tool for classroom learning, and it’s safe to say that teachers have never had more videos at their fingertips than they do today. But with so many videos on YouTube, how do ...

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments; many had to completely rethink how they would approach their content to ...

Canva for Education gets an AI overhaul, with new tools, security features, and thousands of resources for teachers and students. Credit: Canva Canva is releasing a new classroom-focused suite of AI ...

At the end of a recent professional training, I had a rather candid conversation with an assistant principal. He was frustrated with his school’s sole focus on enhancing academic rigor at the cost of ...

A teacher’s kindness can stay with a student long after the actual lesson is forgotten. These stories are a reminder that ...

“Differentiated instruction"—both the term and the idea—can carry a lot of baggage in teaching circles. This blog has carried many posts, including a video series my colleague Katie Hull and I ...