Most teacher professional development focuses on formal workshops or mentorships, but Tennessee hopes to help teachers improve by leveraging the power of a friendly conversation over coffee or a quick ...

In classrooms around the world, educators strive to nurture not only students’ academic skills but also the qualities that help them thrive more generally as dynamic people, namely character strengths ...

To give teachers more confidence and preparation for classroom responsibilities, some schools and districts are employing new simulation-based training tools in their professional development.

AI-powered lesson planning has moved into the educational mainstream in 2026, with tools offering standards alignment, adaptive content, and workflow integration. Educators are using these systems to ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Alan Borsuk’s important essay dives deeply into the complexities and challenges of education reform, raising important questions about decades of education policymaking. This topic—how classroom ...

At the end of each lesson, when 2nd grade teacher Erin Pawlak asked her students at P.S. 11 in New York City to reflect on their reading or share a successful strategy, the same hands would shoot up. ...

When faced with a class full of learners, student teachers must adapt theory to practice. Sunshine Seeds/Shutterstock/Editorial use only The preparation of student teachers is a critical aspect of ...