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Editor's Choice: 50+ Of The Best Educational Toys & Gifts For 2018 by TeachThought Staff Ed note: The following links are affiliate links. You can read more about our affiliate policy here, but the general premise is that we…

Money Matters: 3 Financial Literacy Lessons For Students contributed by Jess Holmes This is sponsored content As educators, we are responsible for more than just passing on knowledge and formulas; we are thought-makers and…

Good Credit, Bad Credit: 3 Ways Credit Scores Can Affect Students contributed by Jenna Wilson For better or for worse, we live in a credit-driven economy. As such, your credit score is one of the most important numbers connected to…

Start Small: A Wendell Berry Commencement Address by Terry Heick Almost every challenge, when closely examined, is first a challenge of scale. If you consider our own corner of the world, learning, the labels and language we use will…

So This Guy Reads Poetry To Stuck Commuters by Ashley McCann Going about our daily lives can be largely impersonal. Aside from interacting with family, or the shallow (and largely mandatory) conversations that are required…

How To Respond To Negative Social Media About Your Business contributed by Catherine Wilson When you’re operating a business—an eBook store, for example—you’ll please all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the…

These Octopus Kites Are Nightmare Fuel by TeachThought Staff There are good kites and there are bad kites. And then there are octopus kites. A 'good kite' would be something like the one Benjamin Franklin flew. Whether we…

Hurricane Information Index: 50 Resources To Stay Safe During Hurricanes by TeachThought Staff Today is hurricane day on TeachThought, apparently. In addition to staying safe and preparedness checklists (see below), we've also…

6 Hurricane Preparedness Checklists So You Can Make Your Own by TeachThought Staff It's hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, and how to survive a hurricane is a matter of preparation. In the above post, we discussed the need…

How To Stay Safe During A Hurricane by Terry Heick Right off the bat, let me say that I'm (very obviously) not an expert in hurricanes. If you want government-endorsed and specific FEMA-created checklists, you're not going to get…

Be A Creator, Not An Inheritor by Dale Schlundt, M.A. “There is no research stating it is harmful, but I wouldn’t.” These are the words of my wife’s OBGYN when I asked him about spraying insect poison and its potential effects on…

25 Things That Happy People Do by Terry Heick Is the world changing? Urgently, yes. What is the relationship between change and that happiness? That's a kind of context for this post. While not a post purely about pedagogy…

Grant Wiggins, Champion Of Understanding by Terry Heick Modern education icon Grant Wiggins, co-creator of Understanding by Design, has died, as announced on his twitter account by Grant's wife, Denise. Our colleagues at ASCD have…

Preventing Youth Suicide Through Lessons Of Hope by TeachThought Staff CHICAGO, IL — Schools for Hope is a new, free educational curriculum that was developed by The International Foundation for Research and Education on Depression…

Maybe It's Time To Stop Talking About Bullying, And Talk Kindness Instead by Lisa Currie, ripplekindness.org I thought I was in a safe environment. A group on facebook where people from around the world gathered to exchange…

The Science Of Character: 6 Categories & 24 Traits What is character? What kinds of ideas and related characteristics do we associate with it? What contributes to its development? Can certain attributes be cultivated? How…

Social Media Stalking Is A Thing We all love to share our lives via social media. What we eat. Who we love. Where we are. What we're doing there. When we'll be home. What we're feeling. This has consequences. Creepers and stalkers,…

Every Single Satellite Orbiting The Earth Presented (mostly) without commentary: What must the aliens think? Every Single Satellite Orbiting The Earth

So Kazuhiro Tsuji recently finished the most amazing sculpture of a bearded antebellum American president you've ever seen. It's not a photoshop or digital model, but a real thing you can touch. Mind. Blown. Try Not To Be…

How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Facebook by Terry Heick I was hesitant to get on the facebook train. Everyone I knew “had a facebook” before I did. I am generally skeptical of early adoption of anything—technology,…

It’s tough out there for students. Tuition rates are high, student loans are looming, and chances are, you barely have two pennies to rub together. Retailers can sympathize with that, and many of them offer discounts of 10% or more…