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Five years ago, Alabama’s math was literally the worst. On national assessments from 2019, the state was ranked last in the country for math performance. Across the state, only 22 percent of students were proficient in math — a percentage that ...[Read More]

By: Tim Breen and Bridget Collins Energy filled the air in Studio 2. Science educators and student members of the science department gathered in a circle seminar-style to discuss course design for the 2025-26 school year. Sam, a passionate and engage...[Read More]

From Afforai to Litmaps to ChatGPT, here are 26 free tools that support research, writing, and teaching for K–12 and higher ed educators and students. Source

Hayley Leibson, a mother from Mill Valley, a wealthy area just north of San Francisco, started hunting for a language-immersion child care program when her son was 8 months old. “I thought I was really early,” Leibson says, noting that her son wasn’t...[Read More]

Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to change or grow, curiosity is simply a momentary neurological reaction to stimuli. Source

By: Rachel Albright, Lacey Eckels, and Carmen Coleman  Never mistake activity for achievement. John Wooden Across the country, educators are working harder than ever—yet the results don’t always match the effort. We’ve defined what we want for our st...[Read More]

Gamification can clarify not just success and failure but the nuance of student performance in every step of the learning process. Source

By: Charles Pimentel Meaningful and purposeful technology classes, connected to real-world issues, are a key element of learning at Graded – The American School of São Paulo, Brazil. As a teacher in the Upper School Design and Technology Department, ...[Read More]

As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves...[Read More]

The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face. Source

In an effort to “transform how artificial intelligence is taught and integrated into classrooms across the United States,” the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), in partnership with Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the United Federat...[Read More]

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. I personally never faced a weighty decision about my learning until I had to declare a college...[Read More]