Teachers and Teaching

Harvard guidance and a new tool from the Center for Digital Thriving can help educators color in the gray areas

How small adjustments for educators can help them guide their students through a technology-filled world

Satyam Mishra, the 2025 winner of the Phyllis Strimling Award, looks back on his year at HGSE and what’s ahead

From high school classrooms to college campuses, HGSE alum Barbara Selmo reflects on four decades as an educator

Inspired by a courageous 12-year-old in Peru, Tyler Thigpen is working to engaged and empower this generation of high schoolers

Statistician who explores how to best use modern methods in applied social science contexts has been promoted to the rank of professor of education 

HGSE alum and Hairiette series author shares how the LDIT program inspired her to create a 7-year-old girl with magic hair

Shining a light on the many paths that lead our students to the Ed School

Podcasts have been a great way for the Ed School to connect with those working in the field. Here are a few of our favorites

Led by intention and purpose, HGSE alum Dominik Dresel finds his calling in education

Collaboration with City Year helps corps members become Ed School students

Here’s what happens when faculty put boots to the ground

Akanksha Pabari reflects on her time teaching high school students, highlighting the importance of creating a supportive environment

Alum Anjali Adukia discusses how textbooks across states like Texas and California are less different than commonly believed — especially in how they portray race, gender, and historical narratives

Schools have an essential part to play in confronting climate change and developing climate literacy

How intentional teacher language in early childhood classrooms can shape children’s inner voice, support emotional regulation, and promote lifelong resilience and well-being

U.S. Special Olympics chair and UNITE co-founder Tim Shriver highlighted ways to improve communication and rhetoric by choosing dignity over contempt

Ph.D. candidate Jeannette Garcia Coppersmith’s research focuses on inherent bias, and what happens when teachers let students endure the “productive struggle” of learning ambitious mathematics

Lecturer Aaliyah El-Amin and Boston College's Scott Seider, Ed.M.'04, Ed.D.'08, examine what it truly means to pursue education justice in K–12 schools

Assistant Professor Ying Xu studies how artificial intelligence can impact a student’s learning ecosystem

A new professional development institute helps educators find their courage

Tools to aid teachers and school leaders in their own “continuous improvement”

What tools are needed to help young people to develop skills, knowledge, and characteristics to become informed and motivated citizens in our society, particularly in polarized times?

A new book demonstrates how to educate for social action and why it doesn’t have to come at the expense of academic learning 

Lessons to be learned from evolving views about free speech policies on college campuses and how to preserve a safe, productive, and respectful learning environment

How to sustain satisfying careers for educators and create a resilient future for teaching

A new guide offers advice and strategies for using generative AI tools to support self-directed project-based learning

New book from alum says we do, but it doesn’t have to be that way

Is it finally time to ban phones from schools?

How educators can help young people cultivate the mindsets and skills needed to engage respectfully and constructively with people who have different points of view

After founding a nonprofit dedicated to uplifting youth voice, master's student Priya Thelapurath's is taking her natural next step — into the classroom 

Art|Play project’s new online resources hope to spark creativity in the classroom and beyond for teachers and students

Two alums help teachers help students with Primary Sources

Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt’s Advancing the Public Understanding of Education: Election Edition encourages students to think like journalists

A new free online tool helps teachers practice creative problem-solving

Lecturer Eric Soto-Shed advises against avoiding classroom discussions on the upcoming U.S. election — and, instead, offers strategies on making these conversations worthwhile 

HGSE faculty members and other leading scholars of American history and civics will offer online professional development courses for educators

A new study co-authored by Megan Satterthwaite-Freiman highlights the need for more effective and personalized training on how to lead conversations about sensitive topics in the classroom

A new research paper provides a model for social and emotional learning in schools that is culturally sustaining
 

Professor Adriana Umaña-Taylor's work focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors, such as ethnic-racial identity, interact to inform adolescents' development and affect academic success

The Ed School kicked off the academic year with a daylong orientation on campus

A summer institute dives into teaching hard histories and tough topics in developmentally appropriate and pedagogically sophisticated ways

Gahyun Callie Sung's journey to HGSE and the LIT Lab is reflected in her research into data and using AI to improve student outcomes

The short answer is, it does

And why these decisions are ethical, not just practical

Lecturer Liao Cheng’s course focuses on understanding and looking inward