The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best math lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Beth Kobett, Jill Henry, Avery Zachery, Cindy Garcia, Molly ...

When new teachers hear the phrase differentiated instruction, a look of confusion often comes across their faces. Although this educational term is used quite frequently, what it looks like in the ...

Want to help your first-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. Understand place value in one- and two-digit numbers. Understand that in two-digit ...

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

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 ...

Kaitlyn Shepard guides her first-graders in a math lesson Dec. 18, 2025 at Warrenwood Elementary School in Fayetteville, NC. She is the first honoree as a Smith Douglas Homes Amazing Teacher, part of ...