BBC Live Lessons for primary schools

Live Lessons are half hour interactive programmes to support teachers and bring curriculum content to life. We work with ...

How some U.S. schools are teaching kindness classes

Kindness 101 is a program that uses the stories CBS News finds in our "On the Road" series to teach kindness and character. The stories are paired with lesson plans created by a nonprofit at Iowa's ...
The Atlantic

How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...
Education Week

How to Build a Reading Block: Two Teachers Share Their Approaches

What should an elementary reading block look like? For such a common part of the school day, it’s surprising to find that there’s no one right answer. More than 40 states have passed legislation ...

Texas paid schools to use these lessons. More San Antonio districts are signing on.

State-approved math lessons are spreading in San Antonio schools. It's still too early to tell if Bluebonnet Learning is ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...