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Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students

Reading Time: 5 minutesI’ve attended my share of professional development sessions as an educator. Too often, I’ve walked away asking the same question: Is this really how we

Reading Time: 4 minutesAn early childhood center director in Washington re-draws the weekly menu to contend with the rising cost of food. A home-based provider in Arkansas stays

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen Dr. Carolina Gutierrez’s physics students used artificial intelligence to solve problems, something unexpected happened: The answers were wrong. But instead of provoking frustration, those

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s 2005, and the computer room has been vibrating for two hours straight, my fingers gliding across the keyboard copying HTML and Java code while

Reading Time: 8 minutesKrystalyn Musselman holds a worn cardboard box up to the screen on our Zoom call. It’s the anonymous question box she relies on to field

Reading Time: 4 minutesImagine spending thousands of dollars on an edtech product for your school or district that promises to transform student learning, only to watch students struggle

Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the past two years, I have noticed that when I teach students about any issue in the U.S. or around the world, they express

Reading Time: 4 minutesEmily Musil reviews her 11- and 13-year-old children’s report cards, scanning through the typical categories: language arts, math, social studies. But one day she is

Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Seth Walker first walked into Lincoln High School’s new cybersecurity class, he felt out of place. “I didn’t have any IT experience, and everyone

Reading Time: 3 minutesLate last month, Hurricane Melissa pummeled Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. It was one of the strongest Category 5 storms on record, and

Reading Time: 6 minutesJosh Grenier got a powerful lesson in the benefits of revitalization when he was a high school art teacher in Edina, Minnesota. He was teaching