LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It’s official. After dedicating more than three decades of her life as an educator, with 25 of those years as a first grade teacher at James Cole Elementary, Kelly Curtis officially ...

Last month, teacher Madison Swift started choking on food while in her first-grade classroom in Colonial Heights, Va. Three ...

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 ...

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

COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Virginia ( WTVR) -- Three first graders at Lakeview Elementary School in Colonial Heights became unlikely ...

A Virginia first grade teacher says she is alive today because three of her students refused to panic when she suddenly began choking in class. WFMZ reported that Madison Swift, a first-year teacher ...

The poster Maleeha Ali made said it all. ‘Miss Vicki Soto – 1st Grade’ was colorfully written above a picture of the teacher who died protecting her first-grade students Friday. Ali, now a ...

CINDY COMPTON, celebrating her 25th anniversary of teaching at Mount Airy Elementary School, has seen hundreds of children pass through her first-grade classroom. She has had the unusual experience of ...

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 ...

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 ...

First-grade teachers across the country spend very little time actually teaching academic skills, instead focusing on classroom management, according to a national study to be released today. The ...