This article provides insight into the process and implementation of a professional development workshop that was created for and provided to educators who were interested in implementing more playful pedagogies in their educational settings. The workshop focused primarily on meeting the needs of all learners through meaningful and engaging…

While the field of music education is rife with participation in methodological debates around "best systems" for learning about pitch, the authors in this article explore the possibilities of learner-centered approaches to teaching pitch among students with diverse music backgrounds. Specifically, the article highlights several…

The uneven ways in which climate change is taught (or not) within schools, and the uneven opportunities for students to experience justice-oriented climate education, are curricular injustices. Recent systematic reviews of Climate Change Education literature note a depoliticising tendency in climate change education, with official curriculum…

This discussion-based article provides secondary English Language Arts teachers with strategies using cognitive load theory (Sweller, 1988) by encouraging the use of picture books in the classroom to reduce cognitive load and scaffold literary analysis. Framed as a research-to-practice piece, the article begins by describing the challenge teachers…

The authors have worked with teachers to explore how to develop their ability to attend to students' mathematical thinking in ways that matter, an ability they call "teacher noticing." In doing so, the authors have found that attending to students' thinking can also support the development of more equitable classrooms where all students…

The four main anatomical sciences, gross anatomy, histology, neuroanatomy, and embryology, are fundamental subjects for most health professionals and biomedical students. Usually taught as part of preclinical basic science training, the anatomical sciences provide a structural understanding of human or animal bodies at both macroscopic and…

Early literacy experiences, including reading and writing, serve as meaningful backdrops for teachers in early childhood contexts to support and embed both computational thinking and computer science into classroom instruction. This article shares how interactive in-class instruction that is embedded within rich literacy experiences and computer…