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Australia’s most forward-thinking schools are already stepping forward—have you secured your place? As nominations continue for this year’s 5-Star Best Schools, The Educator is once again…
By Kelsey McCallum At a time when teachers are under tremendous pressure to deliver test scores but are concerned about the lack of…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
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Ayumi Kubo / Unsplash Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as…
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Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help…
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A team of four students from a regional school in NSW have won a regional esports tournament that involved 56 teams across 31…
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If people are not asking true inquiry questions about their own professional practice in a natural way, I must assume that they are…
Your students’ voices deserve a platform! The Edit Digital Storytelling Challenge gives middle and high school students the opportunity share their insights with…
Strategies for Cultivating Curiosity People use many ways to stimulate curiosity, but I would suggest that it is important to develop a range…
Dear We Are Teachers, One of my 8th grade students is intent on making every class a nightmare for me. He responds “Why?”…
History is usually no laughing matter, but sometimes we can’t help but LOL at modern interpretations of the past. Here are 30 irreverent…
High school students generally do a lot of writing, learning to use language clearly, concisely, and persuasively. When it’s time to choose an…
I pride myself on being such an efficient and fast worker (my favorite compliment? “You are a MACHINE!”). I used to maximize all…
Frax is a web-based tool for teaching students fractions, which uses games to make it fun and engaging. According to its makers, ExploreLearning,…