Graduation season is here and it’s time for even the youngest graduates to walk across the stage, receive their diplomas, and toss those…
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 Nupur Bagoria Many teachers don’t have a detailed financial plan for retirement—and that’s completely understandable. Day-to-day classroom demands often leave little room…
As education budgets tighten and federal relief funding expires, arts programs across the country once again find themselves on the chopping block. Recent…
AI hype keeps getting bigger and the offerings more complex. It’s being pitched to schools from every direction, but what really matters when…
Ayumi Kubo / Unsplash Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as…
Frustrated with reading countless AI-generated take-home essays and long ago disillusioned with scantrons, I plunged into oral exams this finals season. The classes were lower-division history courses: one comprised mostly…
Created by New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, DailySpark is an innovative 30-day digital learning experience designed to help…
When there’s a bug going around the school, teachers are usually the first to know—and the first to catch it. But not only…
Imagine trying to learn in the classroom in which some students regularly and noisily interrupted or abused the teacher, ignored instructions, were physically…
Orania is a White Dutch–only enclave and an “independent” country inside South Africa. Inside Orania, English and the majority of African languages are…
Since its founding in 1966, RIF has fostered local partnerships to bring books and literacy materials to children in under-resourced communities to create…
Dear We Are Teachers, I was interviewing for a new position this week, and the interviewer said over and over how their school…
If you’re a seasoned TikToker, you’re well aware of the “of course” trend. “I work the night shift—of course I never know what…
Last month’s fifth annual National News Literacy Week highlighted the importance of news literacy and local news in a healthy democracy, just as…
Short stories are a perfect teaching tool for middle schoolers. Because they require less time to read, they’re an easy way to expose…
Art has been created and enjoyed since the beginning of humankind. Art takes many forms including painting, drawing, writing, acting, music, and more.…
In a recent article for Slate, professor Adam Kotsko details a disturbing trend he’s noticed in his classes. It’s not phones. And it’s…
The best wireless keyboard and mouse for teachers can mean connecting to near any device and using the setup with which you’re comfortable.…