Teachers Pay Teachers
MAY 21, 2025
Grass Head Science Journal – Growing Hair Experiment – Kindergarten & First By Class of Kinders Grade: K-1st Subject: Earth Sciences, Writing This experiment for kids includes a journal and a breakdown of the steps. The next day, have students write a secret message using a white crayon on white paper.
Edsurge
JULY 16, 2025
In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. It was home. Over 65 percent white.
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Edsurge
MAY 27, 2025
True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.
Teacher Toms Blog
JUNE 25, 2025
Changing what the body does," she writes, "can change our feelings, perceptions, and thoughts. (If One of the foundational myths of schooling is that we must somehow get the kids to stop moving around in order to focus, but the exact opposite is true. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 15 years.
Teachers Pay Teachers
JUNE 25, 2025
No Prep Ta and Ti-Ti Music Worksheets By Aileen Miracle Grade: 1st-2nd Using the ta and ti-ti notes, students read and write patterns, copy patterns, and color patterns. Give them a try during Music in Our Schools Month in March. But don’t hit pause there: Music and movement are key players in a child’s development.
eSchool News
JUNE 30, 2025
The lessons included real-world scenarios for using drones, like finding a lost child, that often appeal to young girls, and writing exercises to remind kids of what they’re good at before they try something hard. At first, Laurie Prewandowski wrinkled her nose at Take Flight’s approach. And Panchanathan resigned a few days later.
Teacher Toms Blog
MAY 21, 2025
Cultures of domination," writes bell hooks, "rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience." In our society," writes hooks, "we make much of love and say little about fear. Today, most children go to elementary schools where corporal punishment is off the table. And that fear is used to "motivate" us.
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