A local, former star 1st grader has now, decades later, closed a rare circle by working as a teacher in the same Lakota school as her former teacher who first inspired her to pursue a career as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...