For some third-graders, 100 minutes of math instruction might get tiring — but not in teacher Sahar Shehaiber’s classroom at Hometown Elementary School in the south suburbs. On a recent afternoon, a ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

Jody Nolf is an associate language and literacy specialist at Vista Higher Learning. For more than 20 years, she taught English and reading to middle and high school students. Six years ago, she ...

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