Author: Matthew Lynch
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How to Support Without Hovering: Avoiding Helicopter Parenting
Helicopter parenting, characterized by overprotection, smothering of independence, and struggling to relinquish control over your child’s life, is detrimental to childhood development for many reasons. It ... -
Funding Education Innovation: 3 Ways to Get It Right
There’s no doubt that education innovation is a pressing issue in our country today. As societal needs continue to evolve, educational reform should follow in order ... -
How are K-12 Schools Around the World Tackling Social Injustice?
Social injustice from a worldwide perspective is the “denial or violation of economic, sociocultural, political, civil or human rights of specific populations or groups in a ... -
The Secret Science of Learning: 5 Dos and Don’ts
As educators, we sometimes forget the basic concept that teaching does not equal learning. No matter how much effort and care we put into our lessons, ... -
The Neuroscience of Writing
“Writing is, by nature, an opportunity for creativity and personal expression. When writing is incorporated in learning and assessment, there is increased opportunity to produce the ... -
What Else Kids Lose When We Take Away Recess
Once a cornerstone of elementary school, recess is now getting cut from schools more and more often to make way for extra time studying other subjects, ... -
7 Ways to Increase Your Presence as an Education Leader
As leaders in the education arena, we take a leadership role with many stakeholders: teachers, students, parents, and the community. All of these people feel our ... -
How to Improve Access to Education Around the World
For many children, access to free education is something that is taken for granted; however, there are millions of children worldwide who do not regularly attend ... -
Announcing the Winners of the 2019 Tech Edvocate Awards
Every day, technology innovations transform the way people learn and how educators teach. In the last few years, the edtech field has attracted a lot of ... -
How Bad Education Policies Demoralize Teachers
Our educational system has difficulty retaining teachers. Research done in 2012 found that of the 100 percent of teachers who were initially passionate about their profession, ...
