Lual Mayen grew up in a camp in Uganda. Now he's the award-winning CEO of a game development company in Washington, D.C., that has just released 'Salaam' — a game about refugees and peace.

It's time for educators to ditch deficit-based thinking and instead focus on the strengths of immigrant students, writes Jessica Lander in this month's Educational Leadership. Here, she provides several concrete strategies teachers and schools can use to honor immigrant students' assets, while still providing rigorous English language instruction.

Transitioning from elementary school principal to room parent opened up a new perspective on what it means to lead a school.

Understanding students’ lives can help teachers foster a sense of belonging and ensure that all students feel respected and challenged.

Paul Kirschner och Mirjam Neelen förklarar vad “hjärnträning” är, varför det inte fungerar och hur vi ska lär oss att undvika “hjärnbaserade dumheter”.

Trees for Cities, one of the four groups we are supporting in the 2019 charity appeal, helps schools in deprived areas create inspiring green spaces.

Guest blogger Erika Johnson: As a teacher, I like to bring in foods that are unknown to my students. But until recently, I did not fully grasp the inequities around food and food education in our nation.

Discussions about the achievement gap in education may be promoting a negative stereotype about the achievement of students of color, according to researchers from the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. In this opinion piece, they share their research on how the conversation might be framed to promote equity.

The idea behind project-based learning is that students can apply academic concepts to real-world problems. But more traditional styles of instruction — like math and literacy — still happen at the Portfolio School.

Schools in Finland start teaching the foundations of coding to students in early grades using decidedly low-tech methods, writes Derek Newton, who visited schools for Helsinki Education Week. Young students in Finnish schools learn about coding and the skills that are key to it - such as problem-solving, iteration and sequencing - through tactile games…