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Tracking the weather and tapping into a child’s natural curiosity are ways to build young learners’ understanding of data, math instruction experts say.

Many of our students come to school experiencing many challenges—and bring their feelings about them to our classes. Today’s post is the first in a series in which teachers share stories about how they supported one of their students to turn around some of those challenges.

Emotional well-being plays a major role in teachers’ job satisfaction, and it’s essential that they have effective resources for support.

One Manhattan neighborhood that’s recently welcomed more migrant students is reeling from a loss of funding for after-school programs. While the state awarded nearly $39 million in grants to 74 New York City organizations that provide free or low-cost after-school programs in high needs areas, a program called Fresh Youth Initiatives in Washington Heights lost out.

Aligning lessons with standards is time-consuming, and this is an area of planning where AI tools can be helpful.

Despite the fact that time in nature increases opportunities for play and exercise, boosting children’s health and development and reducing hyperactivity — the bane of our short-attention span era — most American preschoolers don’t get enough time outdoors, according to a new national report from the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER).  

Guiding students to develop ‘scientist voices’ helps them feel more connected to and engaged with science curriculum.

Does the arrival of English learners in a school district and the resulting need to invest resources in serving them hurt the academic outcomes of U.S.-born, non-English learners? Is the growing English-learner population leading to adverse effects on other students? No, says a new study published in an American Educational Research Association journal this month.

For youngest readers, stories of small children accompanying caregivers to the polls and of animal elections help introduce this civic duty. Titles for slightly older kids show characters taking a more active role by paricipating in the process themselves at a local level and seeing the impacts. Books for teens explore the complicated issues around voting. And a good sampling of nonfiction titles for all ages help readers better understand the past, present, and future of the process.

While women are not just outpacing men in degrees — girls are doing better academically and completing high school on time more frequently than boys — the push for parity has been moving at a glacial pace in STEM. Though on the rise, women are still underrepresented in both degrees and employment in the sciences and technology.