Editor's note: This Mother's Day, we asked local schoolchildren through our Newspapers in Education program to share with us, and you, the most important lesson Mom ever taught them. The response was ...

After 20 years of teaching, I got my first student-teacher (yay!)—which would mean daily observation (boo!). How surprising, then, that these observations have brought me professional growth and ...

As another school year approaches its close, capped by the annual standardized testing season that hijacks the reasons any teacher teaches, I do what most teachers do: I ponder how I can get a better ...

For the first half of my professional life, I was a teacher. Being tasked with shaping the minds of kids was a tremendous responsibility and work that I loved. Five years ago, when given the ...