One of the most influential people in my life was and still is Joe Stokes. I remember the first time I walked into the classroom at the Washington Carver Elementary School in Muncie, Indiana, and saw ...

Teaching is many things. It’s a profession and a passion, tedious and rewarding, infuriating and full of joy. For some, ...

It just shows what context can do. Part of "Ms. Hempel Chronicles" was recently published in the New Yorker, in the issue with the infamous Obama cover. For me, I guess, that cover stained the ...

I was 14 when I met a firecracker of a soul, a bombastic professor of life with colossal charisma who stood all of 4-foot-10. Mrs. Korthaus was the beloved English teacher at our rural Pennsylvania ...

Nobody tells teachers that one day a casual comment might stay with a kid for decades. That a sentence said without much ...

Even after 53 years in the classroom, Betty Esslinger still gets a little nervous about the first day of school. Esslinger, a longtime English teacher at Scottsboro High, had thought about filing her ...