Jayme Lytle is the first grade teacher at St. Boniface Catholic School in Edwardsville. Lytle recently answered seven ...

Students get upset if they think teacher Ashley Christensen forgot to talk about latest Packers game. She's the team nominee ...

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 ...

After teaching in her hometown of Danville for 13 years, Teri Bott made the move to Salt Fork South Elementary School last year, where she’s in her second year teaching first grade. After teaching in ...

Rita Youell was just settling into a discussion of her more than two decade teaching career when one of her former students walked through her door Thursday. Bobby Reesman was just a little boy when ...

First-grade teachers across the country spend very little time actually teaching academic skills, instead focusing on classroom management, according to a national study to be released today. The ...

Already troubled by her 4th grade students’ low reading levels, San Antonio-area teacher Melody Fernandez entered “survival mode” when she was moved down to 1st grade—and discovered the full scope of ...

Nicole Lee is a first-grade teacher at John V. Leigh Elementary School in Norridge. Q. OK, so do people get your name confused since Lee works at Leigh? A. No, no! The kids actually think it’s kind of ...