Here’s how I restored an elementary school’s staff culture from a feud 20 years in the making (with help from a 1970s criminologist).

For urban educators and students—who often deal with deep-rooted inequities every day—the effort to promote equity and inclusion must continue.

Before a student learns to calculate, measure, or code, they must first believe that something new is possible. In that sense, imagination is not a supplement to STEM. It is the beginning of it.

As conversations about education increasingly center on technology and innovation, many teachers across the country are seeking educational environments that foster a sense of connection and calm for students.

Educator well-being has suddenly become a buzzword. This isn’t a bad thing—on the contrary, we should have been caring more about the well-being of educators long ago.

When the RCMP Crisis Negotiation Unit visited my high school law class, I expected some interesting guest speakers. What I didn’t expect was just how profoundly they would change the way my students communicated.

When many students graduate, they cross the stage with a diploma in hand and a question they’re not prepared to answer: What comes next?

In a school made up of just 10% African American students, after the bell rang, more than half of the students still in the halls were African American. This made me wonder if Black kids are allowed to roam the halls all over America’s urban landscape.

After 25 years in special education classrooms, I’ve learned something our current education system doesn’t always want to admit: the most important work students do each day often goes unseen.

COVID-19 has been an unequal crisis, disrupting learning more deeply for some student groups than others.

As we transition from traditional teaching and learning approaches to digital and interactive ones, we need to carefully plan and prepare the learning environment.

I wanted to design a new project that could be about classes working together, communicating, and listening to each other.

Don’t let classroom management concerns prevent you from making effective use of technology in your classroom! Check out these tips and please add some of your own

The Museum of Science has developed a suite of new resources for kids to inspire solutions to environmental issues.

Part of creating a great outdoor space is about tailoring curriculum, and part is about landscape design.

At first glance Pokémon Go might appear to be just another game, but as I watched my soon-to-be-in-Grade-9 son play, I saw educational potential.

My journey began in Vancouver 30 years ago, as an aid with Trainable Mentally Handicapped students. Designated as ‘uneducable,’ these students were relegated to gaining work experience. Noticing they easily recounted movie plots and the artists and lyrics Top 40 songs, it occurred to me that the real handicap might be a teaching methodology that was incompatible with their learning styles.

There is a growing community of educators who have adopted Minecraft as a powerful engagement tool in mainstream subjects like math, science, social studies, and even language arts.