Building Social Emotional Learning into your Classroom

In the last 10 years, research has increasingly confirmed what many teachers have always known: that students’ non-cognitive skills—such as their[...]

For many people, the beginning of a new year marks a time for setting new goals and resolutions. We joke about gyms being packed for a few weeks and[...]

If you are an instructional coach or school-based administrator, have you wanted to pause and reflect with the teachers you support at this time of[...]

Teachers are busy—we are unit planning, lesson planning, adopting new curriculum, attending team meetings, calling families, looking at data, putting[...]

"Are there actual Indians there?" This is a question I often heard when I told people that I was a teacher on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in[...]

With childhood depression and anxiety on the rise, many schools and districts are looking to social emotional learning practices to help. A growing[...]

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to participate in a Teaching Tolerance workshop entitled Social Justice 101. Before I share what I learned,[...]

Happy National STEM Day! To celebrate, we’re bringing you strategies from three STEM Master Teachers from our Blended Learning Master Teacher[...]

Equity, as defined by Matthew R. Kay in Not Light, but Fire, is "raising the achievement of all students while narrowing the gap between the highest[...]

This is the sixth and final blog in our Newsela student-centered literacy blog series. You can find the previous installment here.