As a girl, Kylie Altier struggled in school. Nervous and shy, she had trouble reading — dyslexia, she learned. “I just really felt like I wasn’t that smart or special,” she remembers. Her first grade ...

Teacher apprenticeship models have been touted by experts in the field and the federal government as a promising solution to teacher shortages. With these types of programs, prospective teachers work ...

Marie Manza always knew she would be a teacher. When she was a second-grader in Oak Lawn, she set up a classroom in her family’s home where she would “play school.” “I never thought of any other ...

A Topeka elementary school teacher is marking nine years of educating local kids in the community that helped shape who she ...

Rita Youell was just settling into a discussion of her more than two decade teaching career when one of her former students walked through her door Thursday. Bobby Reesman was just a little boy when ...

We may think the best grade we ever taught is the one we are teaching in now, when the best grade we ever taught may end up being the one we were afraid to try. The issue was that my identity was ...

Literacy is an aspect of my life that has been positively nurtured since as far back as I can remember. However, it wasn’t until this year when an inquiring parent asked me how I became interested in ...

BERLIN — In 1965, Amelia Kulak was a new teacher and Mary E. Griswold Elementary was a new school. Kulak, 20, was hired right out of college to teach first grade. She started out at the Percival ...

At Wonderland Avenue Elementary School in Laurel Canyon, there are lesson plans on diverse families -- including those with two mommies or daddies -- books on homosexual authors in the library and a ...