By giving students a bit of time to ease into the day, teachers can help them feel ready to engage in learning.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...