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This infographic is beautiful and easy to understand. It would be a good picture for anyone’s refrigerator, to remind you of what is useful and what is just trying to take your money.

In our new survey, WeAreTeachers discovered how classroom libraries are changing in addition to the must-have books teachers are using year after year- for all grade levels.

How do you get over the anxiety of starting a new social network account? This simple guide will get you started with Twitter for teachers.

Moovly is an online tool that allows you to create animated videos, tutorials, explainers, presentations, infographics, video clips, display ads or e-cards.

Connected students need connected teachers. Connected teachers need backing from connected administrators. Connected administrators create and support connected schools!

His  "Mapping Media to the Common Core" project is a digital literacy framework including twelve different kinds of multimedia projects learners can create and share to demonstrate mastery and understanding of information in a variety of content areas, at different grade levels.

Helping students learn how to learn: That’s what most educators strive for, and that’s the goal of inquiry learning. That skill transfers to other academic subject areas and even to the workplace where employers have consistently said that they want creative, innovative and adaptive thinkers. 

We're all in this together and figuring out how to encourage teamwork in school is something every administrator, teacher, and student should know how to do.

As more schools begin to use tablets in classrooms, it’s worth taking the time to note how other countries are incorporating tablets for learning. It is very important to note there is less on games and interactive content and more on the iPad as a tool for capturing experiences.

And when I had to explain why iPod didn’t start with an upper case letter the way proper nouns usually did, well, I decided all of the rules were up for grabs. The changes I have mentioned are rather superficial, but they are indicators of a large shift that has been taking place in the way that I teach literacy.

~First grade taecher Kathy Cassidy

Luca Agnani, an Italian designer and animator, has taken the classic works of Vincent Van Gogh, and brought them to life. He's created a short film called Van Gogh's Shadow which shows over a dozen of Van Gogh’s paintings suddenly filled with life and movement, perhaps giving us an insight into how the artist may have seen the world he lived in.

Every parent hopes for their child to be smart and to excel in school, but sometimes parents just don’t know what to do with a child who is especially exceptional.Keeping him or her challenged, interested, and engaged can be tough, as can dealing with an educational system that doesn’t always focus on helping out bright students. 

Luckily, innovation isn’t magic. It can be taught and cultivated with practice. Here are five ways you can develop your mindset and ability to be more innovative.

If you want to gain an opinion of ELL education that is truly illuminating, look no further than Dylan Garity’s poem, “Rigged Game.” A slam poet for Button Poetry, Garity performed the poem last month at the 2013 National Poetry Slam competition in Boston. In it, he describes a negative cycle of standardized testing and speaks to a system that fails ELL students and constrains teachers.

Homework: as a parent do you love or loathe it? Parenting psychologist and father of five, Justin Coulson explains the downsides of homework.

Your employees might have you pegged, but how well do you know yourself?

Canada is the only country that tops the ‘list of highest educated countries in the world’ with more than half of its residents holding a tertiary education certificate. Canada with its efforts managed to become a global leader in the education without spending much in the education development.