Kelly Klein, a 30-year teaching veteran, is battling ovarian cancer. When Kelly Klein, a kindergarten teacher in Minnesota, first battled stage 3 ovarian cancer five years ago, she had to take off ...

Most educators are likely familiar with the skills that comprise executive function, if not necessarily the name: emotional regulation, behavioral control, and cognitive flexibility. These skills are ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

Working with kids can be quite rewarding, but it can also be rather challenging. Having a love for educating children and the patience required to work with them is a good start towards becoming a ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

For most teachers, last week meant the end of the school year. But for some teachers, it was the end of a career – and so much more. “I think it’ll hit me more in September because I’m used to having ...

Kindergarten teacher Teri Crump is a natural. Everyone around her at STEM Magnet Lab agrees she was born to teach. The calling definitely came early in her life. "I've wanted to be a kinder teacher ...

Teaching has been my passion for the past 12 years. I am proud to call myself an educator. For the first two years, I taught first grade. It prepared me to effectively teach kindergarten while also ...

I neutered God in my family's dinner prayer. It's the same prayer I recited growing up as a Lutheran, but now that I'm raising two girls, I switched out the "father in heaven we thank thee" to "we ...