Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...
Ontario released its new curriculum for kindergarten in the province on Thursday, but the shift away from “play-based” ...
Only 24 colleges and universities nationwide have earned the International Dyslexia Association's Accreditation Plus status.
Little kids experience all of life at full volume, without the checks and balances of emotional restraint that comes, hopefully, with age. With kids, their unbridled joy makes them sprint in circles, ...
Parents and grandparents eagerly waited in the entrance at Liberty Arts Magnet School on Tuesday morning to spend the lunch hour sharing a meal and a book with their children.
The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters ...
When it comes to reading, teachers and experts alike say that many older students still struggle with the basics.
Students all over the country lost ground during the pandemic, with remote learning especially hard for young kids. Experts say other challenges to students’ reading achievement include too much use ...
In the past, when someone new came into his kindergarten classroom to provide unsolicited “support,” the author’s immediate thought was always, “OK, great, what are they trying to sell me?” A literacy ...
In Meagan Beam’s dining room, a dozen 3D printers whir and clack away as they crank out plastic tiles with colorful raised letters, letter combinations and pictures on them. The tiles are part of a ...
It all started with a connection to a story, and led to 30 excited children seeing a cement truck up close in the school ...
New data shows achievement gaps in education for some Charleston County School District classrooms are shrinking thanks to ...