5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Your Students

5 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day with Your Students

It seems like everyday, more and more environmental issues face us. As an educator, it’s important to encourage your students to be thoughtful global citizens and be mindful of their individual impact on the environment. This year, celebrate Earth Day with your...
4 Tips for Strengthening Relationships Between School Employees

4 Tips for Strengthening Relationships Between School Employees

There are plenty of articles on the web about how to strengthen teacher/student relationships. The relationship between a teacher and student is inherently vital to education; being a good educator means your students trust you and you can all work together well to...
How to Talk to Your Students About National Tragedies

How to Talk to Your Students About National Tragedies

Recently, it seems as though we’ve had our fair share of national tragedies. Whether it’s an intense hurricane or a horrible shooting, it’s impossible for your students to not be aware of what’s happening in the world around them. Some students are even very directly...

The Texan Report Card

Earlier this week, the National Center for Education Statistics released its biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress for each of the 50 states. These congressionally mandated assessments are recognized as the nation’s report card, and are administered to...

United States of Education

Though past years have proven difficult, the United States finally claimed victory over its latest obstacle. The 21 year battle came to a close in a Chiang Mai, Thailand, with the U.S. team being crowned the International Mathematical Olympiad. Overcoming what has...