Educators should shift from traditional timed tests and memorization methods for math instruction to a focus on math fluency, writes Catherine Castillo of Springfield Public Schools in Missouri. Castillo writes about how her district has seen success with a more modern, fluency approach to math learning for grades K-5.

Here’s why cold toes and hungry bellies matter to this Colorado STEM teacher.

As principal of Walter H. Dyett High School for the Arts in Chicago, Beulah McLoyd often moved her desk into the hallway, allowing her to interact more with students and gain their trust. Now, as an executive director of a nonprofit principal-training organization, she is helping other principals develop supportive, inclusive and safe school environments.

Teachers can help to coax even reluctant readers to embrace reading, writes fourth-grade teacher Shyla Middleton. In this blog post, Middleton offers three suggestions to help students enjoy reading, such as providing digital libraries that include children's literature and graphic novels in multiple formats and languages.

Teachers should look for available research about education technology before adding it to their teaching tools, write Megan Silander and Naomi Hupert, both of the Center for Children & Technology. In this commentary, they offer several strategies to determine whether edtech will help support teaching and learning.

District aims to become national model for inclusive practices.

“Being a good teacher is exactly like being a good Dungeon Master, but with far more pressure,” said Kade Wells, who uses Dungeons & Dragons with his high school students.

Does speaking more than one language alter your brain? The findings from a lifetime of research are revelatory.

The education reform movement that started with George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind law is dead. It died because every strategy it imposed on the nation’s schools has failed, writes Diane Ravitch, a research professor of education at New York University and the author of eleven books.

Researchers found that children who slept for less than seven hours had a 53% higher total behavior problem score on average and 7.8% lower total cognitive score on average, compared with those who slept for nine to 11 hours. The findings in Molecular Psychiatry were based on data involving more than 11,000 youths.

Within our society's growing culture of "busyness," schools have an important counter role to play. One critical antidote to this epidemic of overload is to reorient reading instruction to cultivate intentionally present, mindful readers. Learn five ways to foster immersive reading through daily classroom practice in Educational Leadership.

Educators should reimagine what a safe school is to make schools safer, writes Jim Dillon, an educational consultant. In this blog post, he offers several research-backed recommendations that focus on making schools a welcoming and supportive environment for students.