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Are you looking for a way to bring creativity into your classroom? When you help your students be creative they will feel good about themselves as well as do better in the classroom. Studies have shown that students that show off their creativity do better on standardised tests along with coming into a classroom motivated

  If you’ve ever wanted to explain to an adult what it’s actually like to live inside the brain of a teenager… there’s a Tumblr for that. Scroll below for 8 memes we love this week from the hilarious website Teenager Posts and prepare to see your life described in disturbing detail. Tell us which

Harriet Chanza of the World Health Organization said that in many cases some parents may actually want their daughters to get pregnant at a young age. A girl is often married soon after she is found to be pregnant, deferring the cost of caring for her and her baby from her parents to her husband.

  The current trend of education technology is nothing to sneeze at. There are iPads and Android devices popping up in classrooms around the world. From BYOD to 1:1 to flipped classrooms, there are a lot of trends that leveraging the power of technology in education. Aside from these few popular trends, there are other

It’s commonly said that we humans use only about 10 percent of our brains, with some people attributing Einstein’s brilliance to his ability to stretch that paltry figure to 15 percent.   But in the video above, neurologist Dr. Richard Cytowic debunks these familiar notions, arguing that brain regions once believed to be “silent” are

“Do scientists pray?” That’s the question that occupied the thoughts of a sixth-grade Sunday school class at The Riverside Church, and who better to pose it to than one of the best scientific minds of our time, Albert Einstein? A young girl named Phyllis penned a polite and inquisitive note to the great physicist, and

1. The well-travelled-mysterious-but-interesting one – Those are the students who have spent time living somewhere exotic and unexpected. They dress a bit more maturely but no one questions it and immediately accepts their quirky-ness as cool. After all, they’re way more cultured than those of us who have never left the ‘burbs. 2. The one

  You might be familiar with it. It’s that awkward situation when your parents just don’t like one of your friends. They don’t like to be around them and they don’t like you to be around them either. I have to say, I’m really pretty lucky. Besides this one friend, my parents do truly like

  Have you ever met anyone who knows everything about anything? They know it all and we mean that not in the negative sense of the term. They are some of the smartest people in the world and they have the IQ scores to back it up. They can answer probably anything from simple arithmetic

Think about it: when children are young, they’re encouraged almost constantly to be creative. They tell stories, play make believe and dress up, build forts, and draw pictures. Once they get to school, that flow of creativity starts to dwindle, and continues to do so as they get older and older. But the truth is