IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. As part of a new IBM philanthropic initiative, the ...
You won’t get rich as a teacher, right? That’s no longer true for a small but growing number of educators who are making big bucks selling their lesson plans online. On a peer-to-peer site called ...
To earn extra money, many teachers around the country are selling lesson plans via online marketplaces. But as such sites become more popular, there are also concerns, including who legally owns the ...
Jen Regan, 37, left her full-time teaching job in 2017 to spend more time with her family, a move that was made possible by the sizeable side-income she pulls in by selling curated classroom resources ...
Miss Kindergarten is in the million-dollar club. So are Lovin Lit, the Moffatt Girls, and about a dozen other teacher-entrepreneurs who are spinning reading, math, science and social studies into gold ...
The increasing popularity of online lesson plans has led to a lucrative sideline for thousands of teachers. For many, this kind of enterprise is a good thing- educators are doing what they love and ...
When I was hired to be a 1st grade teacher, I was given absolutely no curriculum for reading or science. While my school did have a math curriculum, it was out of date from the brand new, ...
Angelique Hammack, a teacher in California, creates lesson plans about climate change for the website SubjectToClimate. She often starts from a question posed by one of her four children. Her ...
As the climate crisis intensifies, more states are considering mandating that climate topics be introduced across grade levels and subjects. Credit: Alastair Grant/Associated Press The Hechinger ...