Guidance for educators

Including emotion regulation activities in math lessons can help elementary students learn the content more effectively.

Quick breaks that help students refocus so they can return to work feeling centered and ready to learn.

Young children want friends but don’t always know how to treat them, so promoting heathy ideas about friendship in preschool is key.

Understanding how the online encyclopedia functions helps students learn how to conduct research and distinguish fact from fiction.

A simple exercise helps students explore audience and argumentation.

A teacher shares her best practices for establishing strong relationships with her class at the start of the school year.

New teachers and experienced ones too can find ideas here on how to stop disruptive behavior before it begins.

Check for understanding, manage your students, and build classroom community with these six opening and closing classroom routines.

The humble question is an indispensable tool: the spade that helps us dig for truth, or the flashlight that illuminates surrounding darkness. Questioning helps us learn, explore the unknown, and adapt to change.

Teachers can guide students to avoid ineffective studying habits in favor of ones that will increase their learning outcomes.

Ten simple strategies for helping students who struggle with executive function skills like organization and prioritization.

Handling classroom conflicts is a part of most teachers’ lives. Even seemingly small disputes can negatively impact the classroom environment and interfere with long-term relationships. This is why managing student…

I made a good number of blunders my first year teaching that still make me cringe. I learned though. And it's fair to say, when it comes to managing a classroom, most of what we learn as new teachers is trial by fire…

Remember when you were a child and kindergarten was a time to play and learn to tie your shoes? Well, times have changed. How can we make learning fun again? Use ten techniques to help you engage students in the…

The question of what makes a great teacher has been around for a long time. It’s an enquiry that poses many problems because there’s simply no set recipe for success, and different approaches work for different…