There are numerous blogs which tackle education concepts, tools and learning practices. A group of innovators are responsible for driving this education trend for other teachers to practice in their classrooms every day.

Here are some of the top education bloggers who have worked hard throughout the year to share pressing education issues, recommendations and bring you the most valuable content on teaching.

1. The Learning Network
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The New York Times Learning Network is a free blog for teachers, students and parents that provides teaching and learning materials and ideas based on New York Times content.

Teachers can use or adapt our lesson plans across subject areas and levels. Students can respond to our daily Opinion questions, participate in our contests, take our news quizzes, learn the Word of the Day, be part of our Film Club or comment on “What’s Going On in This Picture?”

2. MindShift
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Technology is revolutionizing the world of education – replacing familiar classroom tools and changing the way we learn. MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions – covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a journalist and the mother of a grade-schooler.

3. The Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more than 70 writers, editors, and international correspondents.

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle’s website features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; an archive of previously published content; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

4. TeachThought
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TeachThought’s mantra is simple: learn better. Our mission is modest enough–to create a modern enlightenment that results in healthy communities and truly interdependent citizens.

We believe that this can happen much more simply than it’d seem. The secret is to change the way people think about learning. It’s possible more than ever to create learning spaces that are personalized, self-directed, social, and rigorous.

5. Inside Higher Ed
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Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. Whether you’re an adjunct or a vice president, a grad student or an eminence grise, we’ve got what you need to thrive in your job or find a better one: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.

6. Classroom Q&A with LARRY FERLAZZO
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An award-winning English and Social Studies teacher at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, Calif., Larry Ferlazzo is the author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers To Classroom Challenges, The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide, and Building Parent Engagement In Schools.He also maintains the popular Websites of the Day blog. In this EdWeek blog, an experiment in knowledge-gathering, he will address readers’ questions on classroom management, ELL instruction, lesson planning, and other issues facing teachers.

7. Faculty Focus
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Through its free e-newsletter and dedicated website, Faculty Focus publishes articles on effective teaching strategies for the college classroom — both face-to-face and online. Faculty Focus was created in 2003 by Magna Publications.

8. Eduwonk
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Eduwonk is a blog written by Andrew J. Rotherham, Co-founder and Partner at Bellwether Education Partners. Occasional guest bloggers will also contribute, and the author(s) of these posts will be clearly identified.

The blog focuses mostly on education policy and politics. Obviously, that’s a field I work in as well as write about so a couple of things for readers to bear in mind. First, the views expressed here should be considered to be those of the writer(s) rather than organizational viewpoints of Bellwether or any organizations or individuals Bellwether works with or that I work with. Likewise, outgoing links do not constitute any type of endorsement of other websites or organizations.

9. On Special Education
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On Special Education is the Education Week blog by reporter Christina Samuels. Christina tracks news/trends of interest to the spec ed community.

10. Finding Common Ground
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Elementary school Principal Peter DeWitt writes about students’ social and emotional health, and how educators can help young people find common ground. He can be found at www.petermdewitt.com.

11. The Jose Vilson
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My name is Jose Luis Vilson, teacher, writer, public speaker, activist, Syracuse University and City College grad, poet, hip-hop enthusiast, and (certainly not least) father. I’ve been featured at CNN, Huffington Post, Education Week, Scholastic, TEDx, and GOOD Magazine.

12. The Principal of Change
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I am the Division Principal of Innovative Teaching and Learning for Parkland School Division. I believe we need to inspire our kids to follow their passions, while letting them inspire us to do the same.

13. Daily Edventures
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Daily Edventures is the blog of Microsoft Corp.’s Vice President of Education, Anthony Salcito. He works with education institutions and partners globally to embrace technology to optimize learning environments and student achievement, and he oversees Microsoft’s partnership and technology outreach efforts via the Worldwide Partners in Learning, Shape the Future, and Public and Private Alliances programs. Anthony posts daily, spotlighting the everyday heroes in education that he meets on the road.

14. Discovery Educator Network (Den Blogs)
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The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking. With over 100,000 members providing professional development to over 600,000 educators worldwide, the DEN connects teachers both on-line and in-person. Discovery Educators have exclusive access to a wide range of resources, professional development activities, networking opportunities, exclusive Discovery Educator events and more!

15. Brilliant or Insane: Education on the Edge
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Brilliant or Insane is published by author/ education speaker-coach, Mark Barnes, and a remarkable team of writers.

Mark is the author of Role Reversal and The 5-Minute Teacher, both published by ASCD, Teaching the Student (Corwin, 2014), Assessment 3.0 and 5 Skills for the Global Learner (Corwin, 2015). Mark’s fantasy football conspiracy novel, The League: A New Game, is available at Amazon.com.

Brilliant or Insane covers most education topics, with edgy opinion about education technology, innovation, leadership, social media integration, progressive education practices, assessment and much more.

16. Homeroom
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Blog articles provide insights on the activities of schools, programs, grantees, and other education stakeholders to promote continuing discussion of educational innovation and reform.

17. Dropout Nation
Commentary on America’s dropout crisis and education reform written by editorialist RiShawn Biddle.

18. The Innovative Educator
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This blog is to share ideas and resources with teachers, parents, and young people. This community supports those interested in sharing ideas about learning in ways that are innovative and relevant to generation text.

19. Informed
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Informed is your learning and ideas hub. This is a portal for you to hunt-and-gather training news and industry insights in the universe of eLearning and Education Technology.

20. MiddleWeb
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Providing resources for teachers, school leaders, parents and others interested in the success of young adolescents.

21. Cloaking Inequity
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Blog by Julian Vasquez Heilig who is an award-winning researcher and teacher. He is currently a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and the Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership at California State University Sacramento.

22. Smartblog On Education
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We publish original content for several business verticals: executive leadership and management, social media marketing, education, food and beverage, and finance.

23. Teach Like a Champion
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Reflections on teaching, literacy, coaching, and practice. Think of the achievement gap you most want to close: the gap between rich and poor; the gap between what students think and what they can write; the gap between schools in the US and the best school systems in the world; the gap between what our schools offer and what they could be.
Meet the educators who analyze the teaching, cut the videos, and create the activities to help you make a difference for teachers and students. We’re passionate about ending the achievement gap. And we have some fun too.

24. Kleinspiration
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Erin Klein is an award winning educator, national keynote speaker, author, and mother who has been twice selected to serve on the Scholastic, Inc. Top Teaching Team based in New York.

Her recent publication, Amazing Grades, wasa collaboration with experts from 13 countries around the world. She travels the country speaking about the power of student voice, how meaningful technology integration can enhance learning experiences, and the impact classroom design has on today’s learner.

25. Dangerously Irrelevant
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Our intelligence tends to produce technological and social change at a rate faster than our institutions and emotions can cope with. We therefore find ourselves continually trying to accommodate new realities within inappropriate existing institutions, and trying to think about those new realities in traditional but sometimes dangerously irrelevant terms.

26. Teachercast
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TeacherCast is designed for both the seasoned teacher who is searching for some great resources as well as the teacher who is a unsure how to start incorporating newly developed 21st-Century skills.

27. Life of an Educator
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“Life of an Educator” is the personal blog of Justin Tarte. Here I will share my thoughts on education in an effort to improve schools by helping Educators to reflect upon their current practices and beliefs. The opinions expressed here represent my own and may or may not represent those of my current employer.

28. The Canadian Homeschooler
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Helping Canadian homeschoolers find resources, products and information that are from a Canadian point of view and/or available to us.

29. The Learning Spy
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Blog Description by the Author: In 2011, frustrated by the current state of education I began to blog. Since then I have expressed the constraints and irritations of ordinary teachers, detailed the successes and failures of my classroom and synthesised my 15 years of teaching experienced through the lens of education research and cognitive psychology. The Learning Spy is widely recognised as one of the most influential education blogs in the UK and has won a number of awards.

30. Teachertube
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The goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. After beta testing for almost two months, TeacherTubewas officially launched on March 6, 2007. Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.

31. Shanker Blog
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The Albert Shanker Institute is a non profit organization established in 1998 to honor the life and legacy of the late president of the American Federation of Teachers. The organization’s by-laws commit it to four fundamental principles —vibrant democracy, quality public education, a voice for working people in decisions affecting their jobs and their lives, and free and open debate about all of these issues.—that is the vision, the mission, and the method of the Albert Shanker Institute.

32. The Edublogger
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We scoured the web to find our five favorite pro tips for writing better posts, getting more comments, and helping your students get the most educational value out of their blogs.

33. Formación Online
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Free online courses, tutorials, guides and books for distance learning.

34. Angela Maiers
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I believe that learning is a lifelong journey. I speak, write and guide organizations to harness the power of literacy, communication and social technologies. This site is an ongoing presentation of conversations along my learning path.

35. Scistarter Blog
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SciStarter brings together the millions of citizen scientists in the world; the thousands of projects offered by researchers, organizations, and companies; and the resources, products, and services that enable citizens to pursue and enjoy these activities.

36. BookWidgets
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BookWidgets is working very hard to write in depth posts on education, educational technology, fun game tips and lesson ideas for in the classroom. Posts with the goal to inspire any teacher. Of course, they also cover handy tips for BookWidgets users. A blog, a post, a gift, an idea. From BookWidgets, for teachers.

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