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 ...

My colleagues, friends and family often praise my relentless pursuit of excellence, especially in my teaching career. But what they don’t always see is the weight behind that drive — the pressure I ...

My junior year high school U.S. history teacher, along with my college advisor, were the greatest influences on my decision to enter teaching. Both were passionate about their craft and were able to ...

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 ...

It wasn’t one single incident that made me quit teaching in a public middle school. It was the steady, moldy accumulation of dehumanizing, lifeless, squalid misadventures of which I was a part. Like ...

In my school, there are posters warning students to steer clear of the “danger zone” while writing. These posters are tongue-in-cheek, predate any of the teachers in the building, and are mostly ...

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 ...