In 2009, when I began my first of teaching, I taught in a school without walls. I was at Malcolm X Elementary School (MXES), an imposing cement box centrally located in Washington DC’s most violent ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) For teachers, classroom walls are the ultimate multi-purpose tool. All it takes to take full advantage of ...

Most days we made lame jokes and tried to outscore one another with one-liners about the moldy walls, the dead roaches in the light fixtures, the windows held together with bookbinding tape, the rats ...

Kim Cooper pointed to a dried-up yellow water stain in her notebook that formed when rain dripped from her classroom ceiling. Amused, she drew a circle around the stain with blue ink and a line ...

What differentiates the Mayfield Innovation Center from traditional classrooms is evident not just in the virtual reality technology, the 3-D printers or the open architecture that make the two-floor, ...

This article is part of the collection: From School to Shining School: 52 Stories from Educators Across the U.S. This year, I made a vow to my students that they would become global learners, ...

Like many school social workers, Cassandra Klein has an office stocked with snacks, clothing, socks, coats, gloves and other essentials students might reach for throughout the day. She even has ...

In itself, the yard sign is no more controversial than any other bearing an upbeat motto of school spirit: “You Belong. You Matter. We Are All Southern Lehigh.” But when one of the signs ended up on ...

TRINITY -- It's 7 a.m. -- "rise and shine" time -- and in the rustic cabins scattered in the woods near Lake Livingston, drowsy Houston fifth-graders gingerly climb from their bunks to greet the ...

Craig Martin (@craigcmartin12) serves as the proud principal of the Michael J. Perkins Elementary (K-5) School in Boston. Craig is the 2018 Massachusetts elementary principal of the year and is an ...