A framework for ensuring that high school special education students develop the skills they need to join the workforce with confidence.

Mentally tracking assignments and activities is difficult—here’s a way to guide students to use paper or digital tools to ease that cognitive load.

Educators can help all students in their classrooms feel included by using strategies focused on self-reflection and feedback.

High school teachers can incorporate elements of gamification into assignments to encourage students to dig deeper into texts.

Educators must take care of themselves first, so they can support their students and relationships outside of school, writes Michael Gaskell, a veteran principal. In this blog post, Gaskell shares several strategies, such as the 4-7-8 breathing method -- breathe deeply for four seconds, hold for seven seconds and exhale for eight seconds.

Picture books are an excellent way to introduce young students to science and engineering concepts.

Animal science professor Temple Grandin, author of "The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum," suggests US schools are teaching algebra too early and too fast and ignoring real-world connections that would hold students' interest.

Teachers working on learning recovery must recognize that accelerated learning has the potential to overload students and prompt fatigue, according to mental health practitioner Rosemary Anderson and professor Christian Anderson. The pair explained issues specific to gifted and talented students, offered suggestions on working with parents, and addressed teachers' stress from added expectations.

Bringing math to life, gamifying equations and implementing easy-to-use tools can help draw students' attention during math lessons by making the subject more engaging and relatable, veteran middle-school math teacher Emily Strickland. For example, Strickland brings popular sports into statistics lessons with the help of virtual field trips to a sports arena.  

The human brain is a complex machine, but can it learn languages while asleep? It can, but the learning performed is different, writes Matthieu Koroma, a researcher at the Universite de Liege in Belgium. In this commentary, Koroma shares the results of an experiment in which adult learners heard Japanese-language words paired with sounds while…

Researchers have found that as the pandemic continued, individuals' ability to work through social interactions declined, they are less creative, aren't as responsible and don't trust others as readily. Experts aren't sure if the changes are temporary or permanent, but the changes were more prominent in young adults.

Intentional collaboration helps instructional specialists partner with teachers and administrators to focus on student learning.