The growing multidisciplinary historiographic interest in the study of the misnamed "Spanish flu", which caused 50 to 100 million deaths in the world and between 260,000 and 270,000 in Spain, has not spread to the History of Education. The main objective of this article is to provide an initial approach to the analysis of certain aspects that the 1918-1919 pandemic had in the educational field in our country, reflected in the headlines of the longest surviving professional pedagogical press in our history: "El Magisterio Español." The study covers the evolution experienced by the general historiography on the pandemic, the attention paid by educational historians to the pedagogical press as an object and source of research for knowledge of the past, the beginnings of the genre of the professional pedagogical press and, in particular, the journal "El Magisterio Español," leader of this type of press in Spain at the time. Methodologically, the research starts with a systematic review of the issues published by this media in the years 1918 and 1919. The study affords, on the one hand, a quantitative approach to the attention paid by the newspaper to this phenomenon, as well as a qualitative analysis of the content of the information disseminated in its pages. From the qualitative perspective, the study examines in depth first the role played by the newspaper as a general media on the pandemic addressed to teachers; second, the relations and consequences of the pandemic in schools, and, finally, its impact on teachers.