Teaching & Learning
Classroom practice, teacher workload, instructional design, curriculum delivery, and teacher-facing workflow changes.
Indiana educators can still apply for Lilly renewal grants up to $15,000
Applications for Lilly Endowment’s 2027 Teacher Creativity Fellowships close Sept. 8. Eligible Indiana K-12 educators can seek funding for planned personal renewal projects, not classroom purchases or routine professional development.
Pulitzer Center opens paid fall 2026 teacher fellowship on global health
U.S. educators in grades 4-12 have until Sept. 1 to apply for a virtual fellowship that offers a $600 stipend, 30 PLUs, and guided support for building and teaching a short unit tied to global health reporting.
How San Diego Unified Built a Paid High School Teaching Internship
San Diego Unified’s fifth summer of Teach Lead offers something rare in teacher-pipeline coverage: a district that has published the nuts and bolts. The paid, five-week program placed teens from five high schools in 18 elementary schools, with public details on eligibility, training, scheduling and credit.
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Colorado case shows a practical model for early writing
At Sand Creek Elementary in Douglas County, writing sits inside structured literacy with a protected WIN intervention block, universal screening and a named routine such as thinkSRSD. The lesson for schools is less about assigning more writing and more about building time, staffing and shared practice around it. Public evidence so far is strongest on implementation, not districtwide writing results.
Working paper suggests local issues may boost civics learning
A July 2026 randomized study involving 586 participants found that civics lessons centered on salient local issues increased political knowledge and self-efficacy. For teachers planning fall units, the result points to local-first course design as a promising, still provisional approach.
EEF inclusion guide says stronger everyday teaching should come first
A new EEF guide for mainstream schools in England is less a fresh intervention than a usable decision framework: tighten universal classroom practice first, then use targeted support selectively and monitor whether it helps.
The Stanford civil-rights probe puts teacher-development partnerships under a compliance lens
The April 29, 2026 Stanford Title VI probe is a warning sign for teacher-development partnerships and targeted support programs.