One of the most influential people in my life was and still is Joe Stokes. I remember the first time I walked into the classroom at the Washington Carver Elementary School in Muncie, Indiana, and saw ...

A metro teacher turns a porch pirate incident into a heartwarming lesson on resilience and community support for her fourth-grade students' holiday party. Learn how she overcame the setback and ...

It just shows what context can do. Part of "Ms. Hempel Chronicles" was recently published in the New Yorker, in the issue with the infamous Obama cover. For me, I guess, that cover stained the ...

I was 14 when I met a firecracker of a soul, a bombastic professor of life with colossal charisma who stood all of 4-foot-10. Mrs. Korthaus was the beloved English teacher at our rural Pennsylvania ...

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Evan Hedrick is a business education teacher at Carwise Middle School. He teaches a number of classes including business education and intro to marketing. “We learn about web ...

Even after 53 years in the classroom, Betty Esslinger still gets a little nervous about the first day of school. Esslinger, a longtime English teacher at Scottsboro High, had thought about filing her ...

ALHAMBRA — Having set the stage for the success of thousands of students in her 25-year career, a favorite drama teacher is now being honored for her work with the Alhambra Unified School District.