As the clock ticked past midnight, I couldn’t help but fret and think about all my fellow co-teachers still surrounded by a sea of papers in their grading marathons. Every teacher has been there—at the mercy of endless assignments waiting...
The Problem Of Short Attention Spans And The Rise Of Nano-Learning Our phones hit us with notifications every few seconds, prompting us to check our messages or scroll endlessly through apps. So, it's no wonder that our attention spans are...
by Terry Heick While I often talk about ‘scale’ as one of the primary challenges in education–and have also wondered about curriculum, too–a more subversive concept constantly at play throughout education is tone. As an ‘English’ teacher, I always explained tone...
It’s spooky season again and everyone’s getting ready for costumes and trick-or-treating! What better way to ramp up the excitement than with a few laughs? This list of our favorite Halloween jokes for kids will have you howling. 1. How...
We’ve compiled a big list of songs about friendship that includes songs for students as young as pre-K and as old as high school. From classics by the Beatles to more pop-based songs sung by the likes of Bruno Mars...
When you want to talk about something that is less than 1, what do you do? Well, in most cases you use fractions! Fractions are unusual numbers, and they can be challenging for kids. But they are also numbers we...
Help your students become the innovators of tomorrow! The Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest invites public school students in grades 6 to 12 to demonstrate the role STEM can play in tackling some of the biggest issues facing their communities....
We hear them mentioned together a lot: multiplication AND division. And they do belong together as inverse operations, as members of the same fact families, and how we constantly use one together with the other. But ask any kid which...
Strategies For Each User Segment In today's ever-shifting landscape of various eLearning apps and learning platforms, any successful and lasting implementation is crucial, yet often challenging. As organizations strive to upskill their workforce and streamline learning processes, many find themselves...
As young kids learn about shapes and measurement, they soon enough come to measure the perimeter and area of those shapes. There are shapes all around us. In fact, most of us live in homes that are made of a...
