LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It’s official. After dedicating more than three decades of her life as an educator, with 25 of those years as a first grade teacher at James Cole Elementary, Kelly Curtis officially ...

A local, former star 1st grader has now, decades later, closed a rare circle by working as a teacher in the same Lakota school as her former teacher who first inspired her to pursue a career as a ...

A Virginia first grade teacher says she is alive today because three of her students refused to panic when she suddenly began choking in class. WFMZ reported that Madison Swift, a first-year teacher ...

As a girl, Kylie Altier struggled in school. Nervous and shy, she had trouble reading — dyslexia, she learned. “I just really felt like I wasn’t that smart or special,” she remembers. Her first grade ...

After teaching in her hometown of Danville for 13 years, Teri Bott made the move to Salt Fork South Elementary School last ...

Literacy is an aspect of my life that has been positively nurtured since as far back as I can remember. However, it wasn’t until this year when an inquiring parent asked me how I became interested in ...

We may think the best grade we ever taught is the one we are teaching in now, when the best grade we ever taught may end up being the one we were afraid to try. The issue was that my identity was ...

BERLIN — In 1965, Amelia Kulak was a new teacher and Mary E. Griswold Elementary was a new school. Kulak, 20, was hired right out of college to teach first grade. She started out at the Percival ...