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Education blog looking at educational policy to help you find out what is really happening in our schools
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Helping Students Become Independent Learners with Interactive Lessons
If the last few months have taught us anything, it’s that we need to make some big changes in the ways we teach and communicate...

Equitable and Trauma-Informed Math Teaching
I have a 13-year-old daughter, and she asked, “Daddy, will those incidents happen to us because we are not white?”

Tales from a Reclusive Teacher: A Call to Action in the Fight for Racial Equality
No matter what we do, so long as we have love in our heart and a belief that we are all equal, we are acting.

Managing the Classroom Through Positive Relationships and Reinforcement
Teachers can use a positive classroom environment, based high expectations combined with positive student teacher relationships...

Curating Happiness in Education During a Pandemic
Happiness as an aim is often overlooked in education. We consider behavioral objectives, and even economic goals for educating generations o

What Really Matters? Teaching English During a Pandemic
In the heart of chaos we have rediscovered an educational truth: the students matter most.

An Open Letter to Accidental Home-School Parents
Give yourself space and permission for whatever learning experiences you might set up to not go according to plan. Real learning is messy.

The Calling to Teach
Any teacher who got into the profession for the money either go some bad advice or is seriously delusional. Teaching is about giving.

Our Silent Crisis: The Childhood Mental Illness Epidemic
There is a mental health crisis in the United States. Worse yet, our children are having a mental health crisis. For some, this statement is

Art Lesson Plans: Creative Ways to Teach History, Culture and Society
By Nikki Tuting This cross-posted blog story from Nikki Tuting also appears on the Planbook.com blog. This blog features posts aimed at...