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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...