When you’re in the classroom, that’s where you want your mind to be. After all, it’s hard to focus on the students in…
Pathwright was created as a modern learning management system, LMS, that could work in education on all levels. Spawned from an idea back…
CoSN, The Consortium for School Networking recently released its annual 2026 Driving K–12 Innovation report, identifying the top “Hurdles” (challenges) schools must overcome, “Accelerators” (mega-trends)…
The longer the semester wears on, the harder it can be to focus on grading, planning, or other admin-centric tasks that don’t directly…
I’ve always been uncomfortable with the grading part of being a professor. As a student, I loved learning, particularly writing, but dreaded the…
Tomorrow’s teacher strike will be framed in familiar terms: pay, workload, burnout. Those are real pressures. But they are not the whole story.…
Most of today’s students have never known a world without technology, which significantly impacts their attention spans (“Digital Dementia: How Screens and Digital Devices Impact Memory” 2023). Microsoft…
Barrie Olson moves us beyond linear literacy instruction For decades, reading instruction in the US has been the subject of debate while student…
UNEXPECTED THOUGHTS Sometimes we see things that prompt thoughts that are entirely unexpected and often, apparently, have very little to do with what…
As educators, we frequently encounter challenging situations, often involving aggressive or defensive responses that feel like a verbal assault. I learned this firsthand…
Recommendations include using the US–Taiwan Education Initiative as a primary model for expanding Mandarin teaching Students love Taiwan’s Fengjia night market. A bipartisan…
Baseball, the all American sport, is also great for thinking about the multiple meanings of words and playing around with language. These baseball…
Teacher burnout isn’t just common—it’s nearly universal. In a 2025 We Are Teachers survey of more than 2,400 teachers, 91.95% said they’ve experienced…
This was a big year for AI and teaching, probably the biggest since ChatGPT launched at the end of November 2022. Just about…
Gemini 3, the latest and greatest version of Google’s flagship AI tool, has launched. At this point, the market is inundated with AI…
From launching New York State’s first online school program to designing future-ready libraries and libraries and developing groundbreaking apps like the tether interactive…
The faculty role in higher education (HE) comes with the expectation to publish, yet many consider this a burden rather than a privilege. In fact, the…
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Ah, JanSport. One of the eternal backpack brands, carried by students everywhere. While we could wax poetic about the comfort of seeing a…