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Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature | KQED

Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature | KQED

Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature Kindness Vs. Cruelty: Helping Kids Hear The Better Angels Of Their Nature Cory Turner and Anya...

Ways Reading Can Support Writing Instruction

Ways Reading Can Support Writing Instruction

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? It isn't easy for educators to teach reading, and it isn't easy for students to learn...

4 Empathy Activities For Any Classroom • Teched Up Teacher

4 Empathy Activities For Any Classroom • Teched Up Teacher

A design process is a creative problem-solving process that can be applied to any activity in your classroom. We use our creative problem solving process in FH Innovates, our...

Equity literacy for STEM educators

Equity literacy for STEM educators

In the context of STEM education, it is not enough for schools to identify the content and skills needed for K-12 students to become STEM ready. School leaders, STEM educators...

How are Our Experiences with Math Affecting Our Children?

How are Our Experiences with Math Affecting Our Children?

2019-04-25T20:21:16-05:00 Ally Somma, Elementary Teacher Two thumbs up from my class! We are all about that growth mindset and combating math anxiety. Thank you for making a...

9 Things That Educators Should Know About Gamification - The Tech Edvocate

9 Things That Educators Should Know About Gamification - The Tech Edvocate

Gamification has grown in popularity as teachers and educators realize the wealth of potential that games offer their students, no matter the age. Fast fading is the idea that...

Why Do High School History Teachers Lecture So Much?

Why Do High School History Teachers Lecture So Much?

Why Do High School History Teachers Lecture So Much? Ed note: On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to...

Why we’re doing too much, too young in education

Why we’re doing too much, too young in education

“The earlier you go, the more likely you are to pick up kids who may just catch up on their own – they’re just late starters,” states Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental...

Educator Standards make their way into Texas law

Educator Standards make their way into Texas law

In the same month the new ISTE Standards for Educators were launched, the governor of Texas signed a bill requiring that preservice teachers be evaluated on their ability to...

Restorative Practices in Schools Work ... But They Can Work Better

Restorative Practices in Schools Work ... But They Can Work Better

As the scrutiny over“zero tolerance” discipline policies has intensified over the past decade, more school districts across the country have been looking at alternatives....

3 Levels of Connectivity K–12 Schools Should Consider

3 Levels of Connectivity K–12 Schools Should Consider

The increasing digitalization of education has put even more emphasis on internet access in K–12 schools, leading more school districts, nonprofits and government agencies to...

Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids

Experts say widely used reading curriculum is failing kids

Most Americans have likely never heard of Lucy Calkins, but their children's teachers probably have. Calkins, a professor of education at Columbia University, has created one of...