Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...
As a girl, Kylie Altier struggled in school. Nervous and shy, she had trouble reading — dyslexia, she learned. “I just really felt like I wasn’t that smart or special,” she remembers. Her first grade ...
This story is part of an ongoing series of profiles by NorthJersey.com celebrating K-12 teachers whose colleagues have recognized them for making a difference to their students and their profession, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — A local woman who is both a teacher and a mom to a child who is distance learning has found a simple solution to juggle both roles. Jackie Jaffe’s daughter Ali is a fourth grader who ...
Sitting in Ms. Hanneman’s first-grade classroom on Thursday afternoon, however, the new teacher said a couple of children had come in that morning to meet her but spent most of the time hiding. Many ...