Chronicling the school year in an online portfolio is a solo form of professional development for educators to track accomplishments and it allows for later reflection. Education consultant Monica Burns recommends that educators spend just a few minutes each week to document activities and resources used in class, photos taken and a few sentences of…

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project has released an approach to teaching reading. Under the approach - which calls for "rebalancing" literacy - greater emphasis is placed on teaching children to recognize spoken words before recognizing written words.

There are several available resources to help develop students' news literacy skills, writes Kimberly Rues, a prekindergarten-to-sixth-grade librarian in Missouri. In this commentary, Rues discusses the News Literacy Project and Stanford History Education Group Civic Online Reasoning Curriculum, which can help students think critically about the news they consume online.

In a Swiss experiment, women assigned to male-dominated study groups were more likely to drop an economics class.

Scientists feel we’re still far from that possibility, but new research could make it possible to spot the genetic patterns associated with educational performance.

So often we miss opportunities to deepen our students’ thinking about mathematics - opportunities that would require just a few moments of our teacher time, if that.

A New York school district is restricting tracking in middle-school math, instead enrolling students of all abilities in the same courses and, at times, having students work in pairs or small groups. The change, adopted about two years ago, was meant to close the racial divide and improve performance among students in higher-level math courses…

Teachers can boost elementary students’ developing tech skills by being mindful of the limitations of working memory.

Teachers can build brief stretching or exercise breaks into virtual classes to improve concentration, academic performance and social and emotional health, while decreasing behavioral issues, says Kate Holmes of Springboard to Active Schools.

Strategies for hybrid classroom teachers who are trying to simultaneously balance face-to-face and virtual students.

Research-based classroom management approaches are being included more in college programs for future teachers, but the strategy with the most research behind its efficacy is least likely to be taught.

Newton North High School Principal Henry Turner also says expressing concern to students about current events without overwhelming them is critical.