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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A first-grade teacher at a Lauderhill school has been charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a student. The arrest report says detectives were told the teacher had just returned to the ...

Teaching is by no means a very financially rewarding profession. Even though teachers are doing one of the most important jobs in society, full-time public school teachers make a mere $56,069 per year ...

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 ...