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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Already troubled by her 4th grade students’ low reading levels, San Antonio-area teacher Melody Fernandez entered “survival mode” when she was moved down to 1st grade—and discovered the full scope of ...

Stacey Navarre has taught both primary grades and middle-school, but after 22 years and about 560 students she hasn’t once felt a need to leave her school. Navarre, a first-grade teacher at Pacific ...

Nicole Lee is a first-grade teacher at John V. Leigh Elementary School in Norridge. Q. OK, so do people get your name confused since Lee works at Leigh? A. No, no! The kids actually think it’s kind of ...