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…
Repetitio est mater studiorum. Or to say it another way, repetition is the mother of learning. And while repetition sometimes gets a bad…
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…
By Kirsten Currie and Shannon Shute May we seek to understand. May we celebrate differences. May we help build positive community. Not only…
Welcome to the November 2025 Edtech Show & Tell, in which our editors share some of the new edtech products that have caught…
Researchers at the University of Chicago recently put AI detection tools to the test, comparing hundreds of human-generated pieces of writing to AI-generated…
Interpersonal communication theories not only help students navigate personal and professional relationships but also strengthen teacher-student connections. Drawing on Orón (2018) and Orón…
When students of different years of study share a common class, their levels of experience and confidence differ. Students from lower years of…
When Catriona Vo stepped into her first classroom, she wasn’t just beginning a career – she was answering a calling. Guided by mentors…
A new study, based on 120 studies on effective reading instruction conducted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East and covering…
Dear We Are Teachers, I love teaching, but financially, I’m drowning. After rent, groceries, gas, and student loans, I barely scrape by each…
During the course of a school day, sometimes you just need a break. Does that break have to include a video of a…
By Mark Sciberras Every year, as part of her role as a primary school teacher, my wife used to spend hours painstakingly reorganising…