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…
Sometimes educators are quick to admit to mistakes. Other times, educators (or people who work in educational institutions) will defend their mistakes at…
Besides the obvious physical benefits of yoga, such as increased flexibility, coordination, and balance, there are just as many emotional and mental benefits…
BrainPOP is an edtech platform with a robust suite of learning content that transcends grade levels and academic subject areas. It provides lesson…
Financially challenged but talented Australian students are eligible for $1,500 a year to pay for education-related needs under a national ‘merit-based’ scholarship program.…
Last month, Google announced a series of new features that will optimize the use of Spanish across their applications. In conjunction with the…
As a refresher: Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter and it’s always 3.14. Since Pi is constant and…
After a long break over Christmas and New Year, teachers are still hard at work trying to get students back into ‘school mode’.…
Most of us know St. Patrick’s Day as a fun and whimsical holiday involving mischievous leprechauns, rainbows, shamrocks, and, of course, lots of…
Dating back to the 14th century, limericks are a delightful, often silly way to tell a short story. These quick poems are wildly…
Improving the quality of Australia’s teaching workforce and lifting student outcomes can be achieved when teachers are equipped with ‘the science of learning’,…