It may feel as though the world is changing faster than ever, and that is because it is. “An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential. So, we will not experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at […]
Instruction & Curriculum
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Ready to Launch Incredible Interest-Based Mentorships at Your School? Here’s How
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! National Mentoring Month, which concluded last week, is always a great opportunity for educators to consider how to tap into the power of mentorship, and in particular interest-based mentoring, which I’ve seen transform the lives of so many young people. […]
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Your Students Deserve a Diverse Classroom Library. Here’s How to Set It Up.
Diverse Classroom Library: Our classroom libraries are in trouble. Just as more teachers are learning that their libraries need books that reflect their student populations, they also have to fight policies at the district and state levels that ban many of these same books from their libraries. Florida, for example, is banning certain materials in classroom libraries […]
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Ask the Educator’s Room: What do I do if a student won’t stop lying?
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Welcome to The Educator’s Room advice column for teachers! Today we’re helping a teacher who is desperate to quit the club she runs. We’re also helping a teacher who’s a student is lying pathologically. See what our writers have […]
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The Secret Lives of Young People
How Interest-Based Mentorships Can Transform Education Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Late in the spring of my first year teaching, we paused academic classes and bussed over to an auditorium for something called a “Mentorship Festival.” I had little idea what to expect. At […]
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Why You Should Be Celebrating Religious Freedom Day in Your Classroom
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Religion is a touchy subject in most American classrooms, especially for those of us working in public schools. It is a slippery slope that many teachers navigate very carefully; no one wants to offend a student, parent, or co-worker […]
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COVID-19 Prematurely Aged Student Brains: What Does it Mean for Educators
by Jeannette Odom Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! Research on the effects of COVID-19 on adolescent brains is at the forefront of education today. A study from Stanford University suggests that the pandemic has physically altered adolescents’ brains, making their brains appear several years older than […]
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I’m a High School English Teacher. I’m Not Scared of ChatGPT
Have you signed up for The Educator’s Room Daily Newsletter? Click here and support independent journalism! I remember the first time I questioned whether a student paper was actually theirs. In an age before advanced plagiarism checkers, a colleague suggested that I Google a key phrase from the paper. I put the phrase in quotation […]