When Olive-Mary Stitt Elementary School teacher Meghan Yarbrough’s third-graders returned from lunch on a recent afternoon, they entered a darkened classroom where they listened to a soothing recorded ...

Teachers can set up hands-on exploration to promote young students’ ability to calm themselves when emotions are running high ...

A few minutes into the Read 180 class taught by Scott Buresh at Mannheim Middle School, half the students walk to the computers in the back of the classroom while the rest start on workbooks at their ...

A small public school on Chicago’s Southwest Side is on the rise academically but it still struggles to reach all its students. This year, Agustin Lara Academy is trying something new to reduce ...

CAMDEN - A thin blue film covers each fluorescent light fixture in Linda Brown-Bartlett's unconventional first-floor classroom. The blues and greens in her room — striping a hanging hammock in the ...

October 26, 2009 (PRESS RELEASE) Chicago Public School students and teachers in four elementary schools and one high school now have a new way to deal with their stress during the school day -- the ...

As a child, Ann Ott sought solace in Tippy, her family's dog, after she was sexually abused. As she worked through the trauma, Ott would hug Tippy and cry almost every night. "She slept with me and ...

There has never been a more challenging time for teachers than in recent years. Educators have been persistently worried about caring for not only their students’ academic learning, but also their ...

Who hasn't received a note from their teacher saying that their child was too restless during class? The truth is that children's energy doesn't just depend on sleep or discipline at home: what they ...