I’m sharing my favorite Mindware toys from Oriental Trading that I use in the classroom for fun and educational brain breaks.

When I accepted a teaching position last May I was so excited to finally be setting up my first classroom. I envisioned a space where the students could feel comfortable and inspired and I wanted the ...

I needed to revamp my classroom organization and management, so I teamed up with Oriental Trading to test their latest ...

Most high schoolers learn about the world through textbooks. But for 17-year-old Peachtree City student Anna, the world is ...

Teaching in the fall semester was miserable — that frequent feeling of a student’s fingers slipping between mine, pulling away, and spiraling out into nothingness ...

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically ...

Students at school, wearing masks. (Students at school, wearing masks.) SAN ANTONIO – While the majority of San Antonio-area school districts have started the academic year online a few have seen ...

That’s when I began to see what I hadn’t been allowed to say in a public school: one child belonged here — the other did not.

Several years ago, I taught a student who seemed capable of shooting up a classroom. He radiated contempt for me, his freshman composition classmates and the assignments, muttering about the stupidity ...

I teach at a university in Southern California, where almost half my students are Latino. We are what is known as an HSI, a Hispanic-Serving Institution. It’s a designation for colleges and ...

Every morning as I head to my office at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, I have to drive past two armored military vehicles aimed in my direction: an M60 tank and an M42 Duster anti-aircraft gun.

Almost every teacher I know has noticed the same sinister reality this summer: Kids have come back to the classroom. But the classroom hasn’t come back to the kids. Far from it. More to the point, ...