This year has been all about the gospel of teacher leadership. This is the good news—teachers are capable of investing in our students inside and outside the classroom, and we are the most ...

In just a few days, we will finish the first nine weeks of the school year and celebrate with a well-deserved fall break. Like most schools, we schedule parent-teacher conferences shortly after we ...

Natalie Saia and Tony Leva showed their students a picture. Next to a girl dressed all in pink stood a boy, head down, dressed all in black. “Those who are the hardest to love need it the most,” the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — WGN’s December Teacher of ...

Ihave been studying successful urban public charter school networks, arguably the most encouraging story in education, and listening to their leaders. Many of them know D.C. Schools Chancellor ...

Most principals and teachers say they believe creating school environments that allow educators to work together more would have a “major impact” on improving the chances for student success, ...

A proposed overhaul of HISD's incentive pay program places more emphasis on teamwork that produces higher test scores and less on individual teachers' results. The change, part of a revised plan ...

”Pretend that you are a member of Congress in 1865,” Ronald Levitsky told his 8th-grade social studies class at Sunset Ridge School in Northfield. ”You have been selected to serve on a committee that ...

Kelly Awick began her class by donning a green winter coat and tattered, gray fedora hat and sporting a disguise of a fake nose, mustache and eyeglasses. “We want to welcome you to the world of ...

The vast majority of parents send their children off to school every day hoping that they would do well though a smaller number actually address the formal education of their children from the ...

LAKE HELEN — Activate your imagination. Contemplate with new eyes. Evaluate what is needed. Teachers at Ivy Hawn Charter School of the Arts learned a lesson in Flower Power Team Building on Aug. 8.