The need to encourage empathy for others is being felt in classrooms across the country. Libraries can be key to facilitating these discussions and understandings. Jennifer Williams is a literacy ...

What is the most important thing you do to help your students become strong readers? Teach phonics? Do guided reading every day? Make read-aloud time with the whole class a magical space filled with ...

Having the opportunity to create a learning environment that encourages creative thinking, teachers are in a unique position to help students develop one of their most important life skills. Although ...

The faint buzzing of voices spills out of the windows and doors lining the long corridor at George Dickerson Primary School. The 38 learners in Erika Pharo’s Grade 3 classroom eagerly jump out of ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Here are eight sweet posters from a 32-poster book, first published in 1965, Using Your Library: 32 ...