As states and regions nationwide grapple with when to return to the classroom, they face a lengthy list of guidelines for keeping students and staff safe. These safety practices are complicated enough for most educators and administrators to follow, much less their young students who are still learning basic classroom ...

Digital advancements have made communication easier, for better or worse. Students can reach out to clarify assignments — leading to better grades — and teachers can update parents with a quick, three-line Facebook post on the class page.  However, this ease of communication means some educators feel pressure to always be ...

Teaching can often be a thankless job. Educators work late into the night to develop creative lesson plans and spend their own money collecting supplies. They answer parent calls and student emails throughout the weekend without overtime pay or a substantial salary. Despite this, many educators return to the classroom ...

For many teachers, change seems to be the only consistent part of this school year. Whenever they get into a comfortable groove, new policies or student options require them to adjust their teaching style and develop new lesson plans.  The latest hurdle facing instructors is the return to in-person teaching as ...

Teachers and support staff across the country have come up with creative and engaging lesson plans for remote and socially distant learning. In a year where students have struggled to focus on learning, educators have worked to keep them engaged and reduce their stress. However, as the end of the ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and pushed students into the virtual classroom, many parents and administrators expressed concerns about students falling behind. Will student reading levels suffer? Will math scores drop? While most focused on what they thought was essential, fine arts teachers across the country continued to come up ...

If the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted anything in the field of education, it’s the power of teamwork in teaching. Educators have been able to share ideas, whether by directly texting lesson plans or by way of project ideas going viral. Collaborative lesson planning is still important as teachers work through ...

Through the 2020-2021 school year, teachers are doing their best to contend with simulcast teaching and new COVID-19 policies. They are coming up with creative lesson plans and going above and beyond to connect with students.  There’s a quiet army of support staff too. They’re guiding educators through the teaching process ...

Social-emotional learning (SEL) is the process of using and managing emotions through the learning process. Students can reflect on a lesson to think about what they learned and apply context from other lessons and their own lives to build connections to the material.  While SEL is increasingly used in literature and ...