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Trending Topics in Education
These are our articles on trending topics on what educators are reading around the globe to amplify their voices in education.
- The Toxic Rewards that Perpetuate our Dropout Rates
- Permission to Mess up the Desk, Granted
- My Question to White Teachers: Why Are You Here?
- Quinta Brunson + ABC Network Sued For Copyright Infringement For Television Show ‘Abbott Elementary’
- YA Books for Mental Health Awareness
- Please Stop Using Blaccent With Your Students
- Why I Microwaved My Strawberries: An Analogy for this Entire School Year
- First They Came For "CRT," Now They're After "Gender Ideology"
Recent Articles
Schools across the country are coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic with ideas on how to better engage students, parents, and teachers.
- Our Son's Paraprofessional Changed Our Lives. Paraprofessionals Deserve Higher Pay.
- Adaptive Intelligence, a Powerful Tool for School Leaders
- Ask The Educator's Room: A Not-so-supportive Support Staff & A Teacher With a Mugshot
- Five Picture Books Students Will Love for Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- As Gun Violence, School Shootings, and False Alarms Surge, Here's What Educators Can Do
- Being a Black Woman in Special Education is Traumatic. But We Can Change That
- Why We Need More "Black Ms. Frizzles"
- Where Are All the Teachers of the Deaf?
- What A Trip to Colombia Taught Me About the US Testing Frenzy
- Ask The Educator's Room: Sexting in Elementary School and Unreasonable Administrators
- Make National Career Development Month Count
- It Takes a Village (to Help Young People Heal)
Teacher Well-Being
Teaching during COVID-19 was no easy task and has impacted the mental well-being of all educators. Learn first hand of the struggles and successes from educators from across the world.
- Mental Health Awareness for the Teacher's Soul
- YA Books for Mental Health Awareness
- The Parable of a Teacher’s Post-Pandemic Pause
- Teacher Attendance Does Matter, but I Still Unapologetically Take Days Off at My School
- Surviving Pandemic Teaching: Teachers, Secure Your Own Self-Care Oxygen Mask
- Self Care Won't Solve Teacher Burnout. Organizing Will.
- Don’t Read the Comments: Digital Teacher Self Care
- Abusing Teachers is Normal: Normal is the Problem
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Black Lives Matter
The voices of Black, Latino, educators of color are one that's routinely left out of the conversation in education. We change that by bringing their stories to their forefront.
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Confessions of a Teacher
Teaching is hard and the only way to the field is through the work happening in classrooms. Read the revelations of educators in the work and how they tell what really happens from the teaching desk.
- Teaching is a Political Act, Just Not Like People Think
- Surviving Pandemic Teaching: Teachers, Secure Your Own Self-Care Oxygen Mask
- Stop Asian Hate Now: Using the Injustice Against Asian-Americans as a Teaching Movement
- Teaching During a Global Pandemic: Addressing Hunger, Homelessness, Abuse, Neglect, and Equity in Education.
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Instruction and Curriculum
The best part of being an educator is the ability to change the way students see the curriculum. Visit some of our articles around pedagogy.
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LGBTQ+ Educators
The voices of LGBTQIA+ educators are ones that are routinely left out of the conversation in education. We change that by bringing their stories to their forefront.
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Digital Learning
The best part of being an educator is the ability to change the way students see the curriculum. Visit some of our articles around pedagogy.
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