Parent support can help keep students on track academically, but a new international study suggests a light touch can be more helpful for students in the long run.

Teachers are experimenting with video feedback as a replacement for traditional written mark-ups. There’s evidence that video grading does more to motivate students than written edits — and it can also save teachers time.

Design Thinking for School Leaders explores the changing landscape of leadership and offers practical ways to reframe the role of a school leader using design thinking, one step at a time. Leaders can shift from "accidental designers" to "design-inspired leaders," acting with greater intention and achieving greater impact. You'll learn how viewing the world through…

How can we create a classroom environment that reflects these characteristics and capitalizes on our students' individual strengths? Here are five elements of a strengths-based classroom environment.

Recent research says the decision on whether to separate twins should not be dictated by school policy but should be left to the families themselves.

One school’s EmpathyLab project on refugees has shifted pupil attitudes about the world and their place in it.

Amid disagreement as to the credibility of the Mozart effect, does the widespread belief that those who study music generally perform better academically have any truth to it?

Students should have access to their own data to take control of their learning, asserts Lisa Wathen, a high-school English and communication teacher. In this blog post, she shares several suggestions to help students get the most out of their data, including connecting teacher feedback to the data and helping students understand how they learn.

Smartphones are distracting students in the classroom and should be banned in primary schools, asserts Pasi Sahlberg, a Finnish education expert and incoming professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia. He suggests that leaders at individual schools be given the authority to make the best decisions for their schools about smartphone access.

Almost a quarter of the country’s schools are testing ‘thinking’ technology designed to assess everything from an essay’s style and structure to its logic and remove human error.

Never get it in your mind that you have to use what you see as some kind of pity party for not teaching, says Linda Cliatt-Wayman, who led one of the most dangerous high schools in America. In this poignant interview, Wayman explains that students in poverty don't need educators' excuses. They need these two…

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