Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

Want to learn more? Sign up for a free five-week email mini-course full of research-backed strategies to help students make sense of math. In Sarah Cuddihy’s 1st grade class at Driscoll School here, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? We’ve all taught some great lessons and we’ve also all taught some pretty bad ...

Kaitlyn Shepard guides her first-graders in a math lesson Dec. 18, 2025 at Warrenwood Elementary School in Fayetteville, NC. She is the first honoree as a Smith Douglas Homes Amazing Teacher, part of ...