Dr. Rebekka Darner, an Associate Professor of Biology Education at Illinois State University, says that educators are frequently confronting science denial in their classrooms. Darner says individuals that ignore science has always been around.

In Episode 107 of Class Dismissed with speak with the authors of "Absent From School." Michael Gottfried is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Ethan Hutt is a professor at the University of North Carolina.

How to be inclusive while remaining authentic Matthew Morris says that part of his journey becoming an educator involved a lot of reflecting on what school was like when he was growing up. “When I was going through my experiences as a child and t...

Jackie Waldman, a New York City School Teacher and a certified Life Coach has been teaching for 30 years. She also works with other educators to help accomplish life goals and decrease the stress that many teachers feel during an average work week. ...

How schools should be using their data For the past five years, Dr. Joy Smithson has been helping school districts build specialized reports using their data. Smithson is the lead data scientist for SchoolStatus,

The "Care Closet" makes sure students have the basics. So students can focus on learning. Melissa Mann is an educator at Moores Mill Intermediate School in New Market Alabama. A few years ago she recognized that students,

Why are teens stressed and worried at a time of their lives that should be happy and carefree? It's the million billion dollar question. How did we get to a point where some teens are so hyper-competitive that giving them a "B" on a paper or quiz,

Making a case for mathematics Jennifer Kinser - Traut is project director at the University of Arizona college of education. Earlier this month she published "Why Math?" in Mathematics Teacher. Before working with the Unversity of Arizona,

Should we be worried about our students' gaming? Fortnite, Minecraft, Battlefield 5, there's a good chance that at least half of your students are spending a lot of time gaming. Back in the 1990s, there was a pretty steady chorus of criticism about th...

Over the past several decades we've learned about all the health benefits that come with exercise. There are the obvious benefits like increased energy, weight loss, and strengthening of muscles and bones. But activity also has a positive effect on bra...