I was the only guy in my education classes at Missouri State University, and until this year I was the only male out of nearly 100 teachers in my school. My approach to teaching is very different, and ...

A lifelong educator and advocate for children, Principal Diane Daprocida of P.S. 94, an elementary school in the Bronx, says she has been waiting for one thing since she started running the school 10 ...

Educators and researchers are looking to update one of the oldest, most popular—and at times one of the most controversial—methods of targeting instruction: the elementary reading circle. Grouping ...

The days when kindergarten focused on playing and finger painting may be waning, according to a new University of Virginia study, as early-learning classrooms devote significantly more attention to ...

After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The Elementary School Journal has served researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners in the elementary and middle ...

Wu, 51, recently began her 28th year teaching kindergarten in Portland Public Schools, all but three years at Reiche, the ...

“My love for teaching began long before I ever stepped into a real classroom." ...

A landmark national study found that children attending public Montessori preschools outperformed their peers in reading, ...

Photographs by Eric Ryan Anderson, Gabriella Angotti-Jones, Chase Castor, George Etheredge, JerSean Golatt, Gavin McIntyre, Alyssa Pointer, Whitten Sabbatini and Zack Wittman Boys are falling behind ...