Using picture books as mentor texts is the perfect way to teach verbal, dramatic, and situational irony to middle school students.

Students in dozens of middle schools around the country huddled around classroom TVs on Thursday – notebooks in hand – ready for their December lesson. Only this wasn’t your run-of-the-mill English ...

A book compiling President Paul Kagame’s reflection on leadership and public speeches could soon be disseminated in schools ...

Elementary guidance counselor Brigette Largey is visiting classrooms to teach a lesson on kindness. Reading the book “Each Kindness” by Jacqueline Woodson. The book tells the story of a new student, ...

This article was written for our sponsor, Participate Learning. For many students, summer is much-anticipated respite from the classroom. But oftentimes, the lapse in regular academic instruction can ...

I had been a mental health counselor for many years when my younger son died by suicide at age 16 in 2018. Before that happened, I had often steered clear of grief work. I stayed in the “safer” zones ...

A renewed focus on literacy in Milwaukee borrows a training program responsible for a huge turnaround in reading scores in ...