Today’s world is inundated with technology. Students of this generation zip and zoom through the World Wide Web. They have embraced a new era, The Digital Age. Students of this new era have been dubbed the “Digital Kids” and they rule the classroom…

Advice for Substitute Teachers:
How can I avoid “busy work”?
Please help me find a way to avoid being a “baby sitter”!

If you sense that your students dislike writing book reports, but you believe that a comprehension exercise is beneficial, there are several routes you can take. One is the story map…

As many national governments focus on Child Friendly School policies, this article addresses two issues: How can we tell whether a school is child friendly or not? If it is not, how can we steer it to be a child friendly school?

The Raise Responsibility System is so easy to implement. This article is a positive example of the benefits of implementing the Discipline Without Stress program…

Changing grade levels can be a huge challenge. There’s no doubt about it—change is hard. Even if you are the one who initiated the change, it can be stressful….

Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and co-author of “How To Thrive And Survive In Your Classroom”, presents The Busy Educator’s Monthly Five — five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know.

Teachers have been successful in school, sufficiently successful to have graduated from college. But students who struggle, are not successful, and who fail will have a different perspective and experience this new school year. Failing kids rarely “Have a good day”…

Sometimes brain-teasers can help determine a person’s profession. The ability to crack codes and secret messages or to program encryption of data is needed more and more these days….

The middle school years are very interesting in that students are making that difficult transition into adulthood while still being confined and confused by their minds and bodies. These easily distracted students are all the more difficult to reach because their brains are allegedly going through a brain spurt and they are also dealing with the onslaught of puberty….