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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The North Adams public school system is implementing yoga in the classroom. Superintendent Barbara Malkas often spends part of her morning teaching her own teachers about …

Durable skills, such as critical thinking and communication, are the most requested skills among employers, yet 89% of executives say they have difficulty finding job candidates with those skills. Muzzy …

“Woman’s empire is an empire of gentleness, skill, and obligingness; her orders are caresses, her threats are tears.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Dating on online apps forces us to answer all …

SkillBuild by Muzzy Lane is a series of online short courses to help higher education institutions, employers, and learners to develop, assess, and verify soft skills that are in high …

My first teaching job after earning a Master of Arts in teaching was at a private school in Austin, Texas, for students with dyslexia. Nearly all of these students had …

Out of all the skills today’s students need to develop, critical thinking is perhaps the most important. Critical thinking not only helps students make stronger connections to information they learn …

The Cook Center is providing Loudoun County VA schools with excellent resources foir student and educator mental health through their “ParentGuidance.org” program. Learn about it with representatives from both. Listen …

In recent years, Big Tech has gotten a bad rep. But of course, many tech companies are doing important work making monumental positive changes to society, health, and the environment …

When Polk County schools began focusing on career and technical education in the spring of 2023, one of their goals was to help students succeed in the workplace by offering …

Love it or hate it, artificial intelligence (AI) is here, and it’s not going away. As the technology evolves, AI will only become more prominent in our everyday interactions, shaping …

Our guest today is our old friend Andrew Coulson, Chief Data Science Officer at ST Math Listen Now -> …

Talking about mental health can be a daunting task, especially with your kid. School officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, are trying to make it easier by equipping parents with resources …

When I was a teacher, I launched a statewide esports league in New Jersey and saw firsthand how powerfully esports draws students to school. Attendance rates at public schools are …

SALT LAKE CITY – The Cook Center for Human Connection, a nonprofit dedicated to mental health and suicide prevention, has partnered with Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) to provide ParentGuidanceorg …

The yoga program Dr. Barbara Malkas started a few years ago in North Adams Public Schools has benefited students, faculty, staff, and even the community at large. But Malkas, the …

The suspicion that technology might interfere with learning is at least as old as widely literate societies. According to Plato, Socrates believed that the widespread use of writing would lead …

When I began teaching English as a second language (ESL), I had anywhere from seven to 13 different languages in my classroom because our district was in an area with …

DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is a commonly used acronym, but what does it mean in the context of day-to-day operations in a school district? As many experts will point …

The Teaching Channel Platform is a single resource for the professional learning needs of K-12 teachers and higher education instructors. It offers Teaching Channel’s library of more than 1,600 exemplar …

Career and technical education has expanded quite a bit in recent years. A couple of decades ago, it typically meant vocational programs offered by high schools to help students who …

Parents in Loudoun County concerned about their kids’ mental health have a new place to turn for help. ParentGuidance.org is partnering with Loudoun County Public Schools to provide a range …

DEAR READERS: With all of the press about teacher shortages throughout the country, many people might be considering whether or not they’re cut out for the profession. If someone is …

It is no accident that the new National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) definition of social studies is focused on “human experiences and the spaces in which we interact …

Irvington Public Schools is an urban district with the hometown feeling of a place where everyone knows each other. Our student body is predominantly Black, but we are quite diverse …

Dual-language immersion programs may have their own unique challenges, but literacy development isn’t one of them. In fact, although a bit more patience is often required to see success, students …

Theo Mayer is a self-proclaimed history nerd who is also passionate about the relevance of technology for learning. Working as the Chief Technologist for the Doughboy Foundation, Tayo and a …

Wreaths adorned walls at McCollum High School earlier this month as Terrie Sharp, the librarian for the school of 1,500 students, helped pass out snacks at a table set up …

SALT LAKE CITY – The Cook Center for Human Connection has been awarded a $3.99 million Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for …

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah ( Good Things Utah) – Discover the Cook Center for Human Connection, where the art of being a phenomenal parent is celebrated! In pursuing great things, …

Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep Suite is a comprehensive online tool for standardized test preparation, researching undergraduate and graduate programs, finding tuition assistance, and exploring and preparing for …

Without instruction or engagement with reading over the summer, students can regress in the progress they’ve made in literacy over the past school year. Those declining trends tend to be …