Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

This post originally appeared on Brainly’s blog and is republished here with permission. In the U.S, teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number ...

Until COVID-19, I never taught a class online. As a math professor, I found the idea of remote teaching as remote as the Milky Way. So, when forced to switch to online by the pandemic in the early ...

When Jean Kaneko started volunteering at her son’s kindergarten class in Santa Monica, California, she was surprised by how hesitant the children were to play with toys they didn’t recognize, to make ...

Khalil Jones is in his final semester at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and student teaching at East High School in the Kansas City Public Schools. With support from the Walton Family ...

Next year. Whenever I talk to new teachers, whether informally or within a teacher education course that I instruct, there is consistent talk of the changes they will make “next year.” Many first-year ...