Student behavior in the classroom is not improving, and teachers want parents to do more. An Education Week survey released ...

After teaching in elementary, middle, and high school science classes, and directing the science teachers and curriculum for a 35,000 student district, I’ve concluded that our modern methods of ...

Teachers know that expectations matter. They know that having high expectations in a classroom can both support (“I know you can do this”) and spur (“I’m not going to accept your bare minimum effort”) ...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve believed that children are capable of learning far more than most people assume. That ...

Do I encourage students that sit in the front of the classroom to participate more frequently than those in the back? Are my expectations for some student groups lower than my expectations for others?

Mindy Fattig is a nationally-recognized educator and co-author of Co-Teaching in the Differentiated Classroom with middle school teacher Maureen Tormey Taylor, which was recently published by ...

Debate, disagreement, and discomfort have a productive role to play in the process of learning, and our students generally share our faculty’s sense that classrooms should be a site of vigorous and ...

Almost every publication writes about it. Conferences devote sessions to it. Twitter is filled with memes, quotes, and thoughts about it. Teacher leadership is decidedly a hot topic within the ...

General education teachers don't always get a lot of training around how to serve students with disabilities. But that's starting to change. Students with disabilities are spending more time in ...

Even after 53 years in the classroom, Betty Esslinger still gets a little nervous about the first day of school. Esslinger, a longtime English teacher at Scottsboro High, had thought about filing her ...

Moving a classroom online is no easy task, especially for those who are new to teaching remotely for an extended period of time. Micah Castelo is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K-12. Her experience ...