There is an award plaque on my office wall featuring a common education icon—an old fashioned desk. You know the one—cast iron frame with a wooden bench seat and a hinged slant top. Style has changed, ...

Teaching effectiveness was measured by examining how students did in subsequent courses, (controlling for a variety of non-teacher factors, like class size) the assumption being that students with ...

My teaching philosophy is guided by two quotes that I wrote and clumsily taped to the wall of my office: “Treat the person sitting next to you as if he or she has accomplished amazing things; you will ...

Forty-two-year-old Adeola Akinsulure, a Biology teacher at Omole Senior Grammar School, Ikeja, Lagos, who is among the top 10 shortlisted for the 2026 GEMS Education Global Teacher Prize, a $1m award ...