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 ...

After teaching in her hometown of Danville for 13 years, Teri Bott made the move to Salt Fork South Elementary School last ...

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 ...

Welcome to Terri Eilks’ world, where bright colors and yards of construction paper reign supreme and where 17 1st graders learn in an atmosphere of fun and structure. “My teaching philosophy is `Let’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...