Month: August 2025

In a Wisconsin school, the principal had difficulty keeping track of what students in each grade were learning from one year to the next. That’s because the school not only used a core reading curriculum, but individual teachers also made many adjustments to it, supplementing with other materials they felt would benefit their students. At … Continue reading “The Many Reasons Teachers Supplement Their Core Curricula”

There’s no doubt about it. When kids have to sit through long lessons in their classrooms, no matter what the subject, they begin to fidget and lose focus. Research has focused on incorporating activity in the classroom through short brain breaks or energizers. Kendall Stallings, a first-grade math teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, feels that brief … Continue reading “Integrating Movement with Learning”