ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. — Educators in St. Lucie Public Schools are finding new ways to teach the youngest students some of their most important lessons. It's called "Play With Purpose." SPECIAL ...

Five students from Kimberley Park Elementary, known as the “Elite 5,” were given the opportunity to serve as ushers at the Winston-Salem Sportsmen Club Hall of Fame Gala, exposing them to leadership ...

Hours of small-group instruction lead to the kind of background noise that interferes with learning. It’s hard to concentrate when there’s lots of talking in the background. That’s a problem for ...

At Lakewood Elementary, fourth- and fifth-grade students are reading a book and discussing the plot. One of the students suddenly raises a flag: He is keeping track of how long kids have been sitting ...

Elementary school teachers can use these activities to enrich the study of many different science topics in the elementary curriculum. Topics are aligned with curriculum for physical science, earth ...

You can’t learn how to swim by dipping your toes in the water. The same idea holds true for teaching. Recently however, SUNY Cortland juniors Ashley Whitney and Kelly Rambo — both aspiring elementary ...

Three young students sit around a Chromebook in the southeast corner of their Liberty Launch Academy classroom. Whimsical cloud decorations hang above them as they diligently listen to testimonies on ...

School counselor Holly Baxter had prepared for this moment for months. She gathered the third-graders of Red Oak Elementary on the carpet for story time, opened the picture book and began to read.

Jordan McNeill is a doctoral student in special education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Follow her on Twitter at @jordanmcneill89. What makes a great teacher? Is it their passion ...

When a one-foot robot dog rolled into a Rock Springs Elementary School classroom recently, two dozen third-graders hounded its owners with questions. The talking robot reflects Gwinnett County Public ...