Ranked #1
Courage To Change: What It Takes to Shift to Restorative Discipline
Courage To Change: What It Takes to Shift to Restorative Discipline
The KIPP charter school network has made a name for itself preparing kids from low-income communities for college. Its e... Read more
24 Oct 2017
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25mins
Ranked #2
Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power
Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power
Privilege and power play out in the world all around us everyday. And kids notice. First grade teacher Bret Turner has d... Read more
17 Sep 2019
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23mins
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Ranked #3
How Can Schools Help Kids With Anxiety?
How Can Schools Help Kids With Anxiety?
Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. The driving factors may be different,... Read more
20 Aug 2019
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27mins
Ranked #4
Childhood As ‘Resume Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback
Childhood As ‘Resume Building’: Why Play Needs A Comeback
The kind of free play grown-ups had in previous generations is looked at with nostalgia in today’s era of adult-supervis... Read more
3 Sep 2019
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24mins
Ranked #5
Where Did All These Teen Activists Come From?
Where Did All These Teen Activists Come From?
Teenagers are demanding to be heard on the issues that matter most to them including climate change, gun control, aborti... Read more
29 Oct 2019
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22mins
Ranked #6
How Listening to Podcasts Helps Students Read and Learn
How Listening to Podcasts Helps Students Read and Learn
High School English teacher Michael Godsey found the Serial podcast so compelling, he stopped teaching his favorite work... Read more
11 Oct 2017
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18mins
Ranked #7
How Teachers Designed a School Centered On Caring Relationships
How Teachers Designed a School Centered On Caring Relationships
Ask almost any teacher why they teach and they'll give you similar answers: they love the kids. But what does that love ... Read more
6 Nov 2018
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23mins
Ranked #8
How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience
How Students Would Improve Their School Lunch Experience
Adults have designed how kids eat at school for generations, directing students into single-file lines and seating them ... Read more
1 Oct 2019
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21mins
Ranked #9
Overcoming Childhood Trauma: How Parents and Schools Work to Stop the Cycle
Overcoming Childhood Trauma: How Parents and Schools Work to Stop the Cycle
Many people have experienced some kind of trauma in their childhood, such as loss of a caregiver, substance abuse in the... Read more
25 Sep 2018
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28mins
Ranked #10
Dropping Out and Coming Back: Stories of Persevering for a Diploma
Dropping Out and Coming Back: Stories of Persevering for a Diploma
Close to 24-percent of Oakland ninth graders drop out before their senior year of high school. Some of those young peopl... Read more
20 Nov 2018
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27mins
Ranked #11
Why Ninth Grade Can Be a Big Shock For High School Students
Why Ninth Grade Can Be a Big Shock For High School Students
High school is an important time in the life of any teen: hormones are raging, social cliques are forming and the pressu... Read more
12 Sep 2018
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35mins
Ranked #12
How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience
How Art Can Help Center a Student’s Learning Experience
Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the center of a child's l... Read more
15 Oct 2019
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23mins
Ranked #13
The Role of Community in Creating and Healing Trauma in Kids
The Role of Community in Creating and Healing Trauma in Kids
When kids live in violence-prone neighborhoods, the environment can enable trauma in their lives. One youth center in Ri... Read more
23 Oct 2018
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28mins
Ranked #14
Can Inviting Teachers Over to Your Home Improve How Kids Learn?
Can Inviting Teachers Over to Your Home Improve How Kids Learn?
Teachers can go an entire school year and only see a child’s parent once: on back to school night. And most parents are ... Read more
28 Aug 2018
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25mins
Ranked #15
Be The Change You Want To See
Be The Change You Want To See
Catlin Tucker and Marika Neto hoped that by redesigning the classroom experience they could shift what students value ab... Read more
26 Sep 2017
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24mins