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An Overview Of Budgeting & Student Loans For College Students contributed by Jenna Smith When you're in college, you learn a vast amount of information about almost everything under the sun. Unfortunately, unless you're a …

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 TeachThought Staff Going about our daily lives can be largely impersonal. Aside from interacting with family, or the shallow (and largely mandatory) conversations that…

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…