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A Museum You Can Touch
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

With a classroom museum that's packed to the rafters, Keil Hileman is putting history into the hands of his students... Read more

Family, Extended
By Jessica Rae Patton, Associate Editor

This neighborhood school has gone to laudable lengths to welcome and engage its students' "first and most influential" teachers... Read more

Our Greatest ASSETS
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

Gifted, dyslexic and gifted-dyslexic children make their way through the sand toward one of Hawai'i's jewels: ASSETS School... Read more

It Isn’t About the Building
By Allen Raymond, Publisher, and Patricia Broderick, Editorial Director

Seven years ago in Boise, Idaho, parents and public school educators and Boise State University faculty selected "Expeditionary Learning Outward... Read more

Teachers Leading Teachers
By Katherine Romano, Associate Editor

Just a few years after opening, this innovative Minnesota school has flourished into a teacher's paradise... Read more

All in a Day’s Work
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

The incredible transformation of this now year-round, Montessori public school has turned a former run-of-the-mill neighborhood school into a community... Read more

Enter... and Feel the Warmth
By Patricia Broderick and Allen Raymond

In Hilliard, OH, administrators, teachers, kids and parents make a school a "community"... Read more

Setting the Stage
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

Second graders writing, designing and performing their own opera? Thanks to Mary Ruth McGinn and Ellen Levine, it's a sold-out... Read more

A Literature Lover’s Life
By Steven Scarpa, Associate Editor

Librarian Lisa Von Drasek has found many ways to cultivate a love of literature in children... Read more

From Start to Finish
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

This dynamic principal/NASCAR racer has got her eye on one major prize - helping her junior high students realize that... Read more

A Dream Realized
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

As a school designed wholly by teachers, the Center for Inquiry in Indianapolis, IN, is teaching kids how to take... Read more

It Takes a Child
By Allen Raymond, Publisher and Patricia Broderick, Editorial Director

In Brigantine, NJ, and in its only Elementary School, the world is changed for the better every day...by the children... Read more

Mahalo, Kumu
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

Thank you, teacher! With an entire year devoted to Hawaiian studies. BJ Namba's third graders will never forget their culture... Read more

Meet Me at Morning Sing
By Becky Rodia, Senior Editor

Music starts the day at a preK-3 school that's in tune with the community... Read more

Everyone’s Librarian
By Jessica Rae Patton, Associate Editor

For 22 years, Sandy Meagher has opened her library door, books and arms to the children and staff of the... Read more

Rhapsody in Vermont
By Katherine Romano, Associate Editor

Sure, it might be a little off the beaten path, but Vermont's Ripton Elementary is brimming with cultural opportunities for... Read more

Teaching and Learning with The Arts
By Allen Raymond, Publisher, and Patricia Broderick, Editorial Director

In a small school in a lovely rural region of Vermont, enthusiastic teachers, with the support of administrators and parents,... Read more

A Breath of Fresh Air
By Katherine Romano, Associate Editor

Against the stunning backdrop of a Utah Valley town, teacher and district literacy coach Toni Zundel Boyer is breathing new... Read more

A Wish and a Prayer
By Katherine Romano, Associate Editor

Joy Warner has had a dream school planned in her head for a long time...she got her wish... as did... Read more

Artists at Work
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

A team of ingenious teachers rolls up their sleeves and turns a rundown temporary school into a magical place their... Read more

Grab Your Partner
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

And get ready for some great teaching! Team teaching pros Theresa Crowley and Paula Carter show us how it's done... Read more

On the Streets Where We Live
By Katherine Romano, Associate Editor

Knowledge can be found down every avenue and on every street corner for kids at the Anna Silver School for... Read more

Learning to Grow
By Becky Rodia, Senior Editor

Iowa third graders stay "down to earth" with the help of their award-winning teacher... Read more

Much Ado About School
By Katherine Romano, Associate Editor

All the world's a stage and, by marrying rigorous academics to the creative and performing arts, New School of Orlando... Read more

Write Around the Clock
By Becky Rodia, Senior Editor

A day in the life of Charley Hoce, teacher and poet on the go... Read more

A Rainbow's Arc
By Jessica Rae Patton, Associate Editor

25 years ago, Columbus School was given a choice: diversity or close. Diversify it did, and with dazzling results... Read more

A Matter of Choice
By Katherine Pierpont, Senior Editor

Thrilled with the successes of their students, a one-of-a-kind school in Waterloo, IA, embraces constructivist education and welcomes questions from... Read more

A School That’s Really High Tech
By Linda Lindroth, Technology Editor, Allen Raymond, Publisher, and Patricia Broderick, Editorial Director

A Lexington, KY, middle school is successfully preparing students for the technological world of the 21st Century... Read more

Highland Park, MI
By Allen Raymond, Publisher, and Patricia Broderick, Editorial Director

"This isn't a job, it's an adventure," says Judy Wimberly, principal of Barber School of the Gifted and Talented in... Read more

All the President’s Math
By Jessica Rae Patton, Associate Editor

If the president-elect of the NCTM brings two funny hats and four math games into three classrooms, how many children... Read more

Keeping Happy in Cromwell
By Allen Raymond, Publisher

A 775-student Connecticut elementary school (preK-4) puts the emphasis on positive behavior and good self-esteem... Read more

Doing Math in Austin
By Allen Raymond, Publisher

Teaching K-8 joins the incoming president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics as we visit the J. E.... Read more