Tips for Parents to Reduce Summer Learning Loss
With summer quickly approaching, parents and teachers are concerned about the amount of learning that students lose over the break. Discover some …
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Why and How to Teach Cyber Safety and Ethics in Schools
What do driving lessons have to do with teaching kids to stay safe online? Compare the similarities of teaching students to operate a vehicle and …
Continue ReadingHow to Afford to Live in the School District You Teach For
Every educator, be it kindergarten teacher or college professor, is experiencing the housing headache. Prices are skyrocketing, and many struggle to …
Continue ReadingHow Student Blogging Can Improve Reading Comprehension
Blogging gives each student a chance to share their voice with an authentic audience in the context of learning and reading.
Continue Reading3 Emerging Education Technologies for 2015-2016
Startling and close to miraculous, the evolution of science and technology in the past few decades has marked us all in one way or another. Mankind …
Continue ReadingFive Creative Methods to Engage Students
It can be difficult enough to keep adults engaged in meetings, let alone a classroom of students with waning attention spans. Here are five methods …
Continue ReadingEncourage Student Engagement with Tips & Suggested Products
Students’ short attention spans are often exacerbated by lack of sleep, poor nutrition, and digital distractions. Here are some methods to keep …
Continue ReadingTips for Inspiring Young Entrepreneurs in School and at Home
There is a heavy interest in entrepreneurship today not only in the national realms of business and politics, but in all levels of education as well. …
Continue ReadingWhat is the Singapore Math Method & How Can it Help Your Students?
What is Singapore doing in their math classrooms that has resulted in so much success? Take a look and see how Singapore math methods could help your …
Continue ReadingWhy Does Peer Tutoring Work So Well?
There have been many approaches to learning over the years among schools and educational settings in an attempt to get kids to learn faster and more …
Continue Reading5 Ways the Common Core Impacts Reading Standards
The Common Core is a set of English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics standards developed in an effort to make educational standards across …
Continue ReadingThe US Education System Is Still Good, It Just Needs a Boost
The US education system has taken a lot of heat lately (some of it from yours truly). Should we be as strict as South Korea? Should we adopt a loose …
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