Inspire your class to write a story they would love to read with our 500 Words Live Lesson. With additional downloadable ...

Teachers can create welcoming, safe spaces while still maintaining high expectations and holding students accountable.

Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...

Noted inventor Thomas Edison at the lightbulb's golden jubilee anniversary banquet in his honor, Orange, New Jersey, October 16, 1929. He is exhibiting in his hand a replica of his first successful ...

In this lesson, students will watch a video from Democracy Now! about the recent Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, D.C. and answer questions about the aims of the movement and the way that ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Life is full of uncertainty. Full of terrors — both those that are unfolding in our present moment and those that lurk in the realm of possibility. Given that we’re constantly buffeted with moments of ...

School counselor Holly Baxter had prepared for this moment for months. She gathered the third-graders of Red Oak Elementary on the carpet for story time, opened the picture book and began to read.

Close observation during tasks helps teachers correct misunderstandings and celebrate when students are getting things right.

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- For many, playing a game of chess is a hobby. At Redeemer Lutheran School in Escambia County it's ...

The day began as a usual teaching day. It was only the second week of the new semester and the fourth day of class, but I had already fallen into a rhythm. At promptly 7:40 a.m., I left my office and ...