Category: Learning and Education

College students face rising costs for education every year, causing many to juggle work, studies, and looming debt. The CollegeBoard’s report shows that the average cost and fees at private four-year colleges in 2021–2022 was approximately $38,070 per year, while public in-state four-year colleges averaged around $10,740 per year. For many students, mostly those who…

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It’s hard to describe how a good companion can change our lives. We may have family, but we don’t choose them. We choose friends, and sometimes they become our family. Knowing you’ve got someone by your side makes journeying through life a little easier. Here are some of the best poems about friendship to share…

Eating a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables is one of the easiest ways for kids to stay healthy and strong. To help students visualize this, we created a set of Eat the Rainbow mini posters in partnership with our friends at Green Bronx Machine. At a glance, students can easily get tasty food ideas…

To grow, teachers must be able to reflect critically on their own performance. Education is ‘actuated’ by teachers. It makes sense, then, that education should also be able to reflect critically on its own performance as well.  Currently, this occurs through the comforting precision of analysis and numbers. The language of math, data, and statistics…

Why People Play Video Games Why We Play Video Games: How Our Desire For Games Shapes Our World was first published in Game Informer magazine and then on gameinformer.com by Ben Reeves Gamers have spent countless hours saving princesses, dodging bullets, and dismembering Grecian monsters. What drives us to keep coming back to these experiences? Researchers worldwide…

For decades, teachers have come together through their associations and unions to secure important protections and opportunities, from litigation support to contract and salary negotiation to professional learning and more. Together the supports provided by union membership have benefited millions of American teachers. Collectively, we sometimes take that for granted. But for numerous individuals, the…

About 4.4 million children who were born in the United States have at least one parent who is undocumented. The Pew Research Center estimates that 733,000 school-aged children are undocumented. Immigration was a focus of the 2024 Trump presidential campaign; Donald Trump promised to start mass deportations and a push to end birthright citizenship. Teachers and…

Dear We Are Teachers, My 3rd grade team and I have to meet every day in close quarters for our PLC. One of our team members is constantly coming to work while obviously very sick. We’re talking hacking cough, tissues all over her desk, can barely keep her eyes open, that kind of thing. When…

Critical thinking is a skill we’re told to cultivate, like reading literature or maintaining eye contact during small talk. It’s about stepping back, analyzing, and questioning everything, even when it would be so much easier to just agree with the loudest person in the room. But not all of us are wired to lean into…

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Whether you’re using formative assessment for data to personalize learning within a unit, or more summative data to refine a curriculum map, the ability to quickly and easily check for understanding is a critical part of what you do. (Which was the idea behind 10 Assessments You Can Perform In 90 Seconds Or Less.) The…