teachers

Each week we're going to highlight some of the most bravest, encouraging and ultimately, inspiring people that make other people's day better. It won't take much effort to make a small action to make someone's day better. Now, this teacher started every day spending the first ten minutes of each day not teaching...

What do you think about this move by a Superintendent in North Carolina? Though many young kids are taught "please" is "the magic word," one school in Charlotte, North Carolina, actually asks its teachers to use the word as little as possible...

It's 2015, which makes this story that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of the Salem witch trials all the more bizarre.

Seriously? This is embarrassing! How do you even leave it up long without someone from the school catching it?

Mr. and Mrs. Rossi decided to take their two kids out of school for a few days for a vacation in Boston to watch dad run the Boston Marathon that they deemed 'educational' to the principal. They got a little bit of a shock when they returned home from Boston to this note from the school officials saying that their vacation would not count as 'excused absences'...

Stories like this remind you just how far parenting goes OFF THE RAILS these days. Principal, Cari Thomson at Woodland Middle School in Woodland, Washington.  A seventh grade kid was having a severe asthma attack last month and didn't have his inhaler so, she stepped in and gave her prescription inhaler on her. ...

I went to Lancaster High School where during my high school career some of the weirdest things were banned. Going down the laundry shoot and bouncy balls were a couple of them I can remember. The laundry shoot. You would think you didn't have to tell people to go down a laundry shoot, right...

Math may be a tough subject for kids, so finding fun ways to learn can be helpful.

Teachers at Ossun Elementary School must be a complete blast to work with. Enjoy as they video-bomb their students as they give an interview.

Being a teacher may be a thankless job, but being a substitute may be even worse.

You may think right off the bat that by the sounds of it, this is crazy for a teacher to do this! People have been arguing about who's right and who's wrong at this school but, you be the judge! It all started when an 8 year old, who was apparently giving her teacher, Renee Luise Oettershagen some attitude, decided to throw out a whole banana into the trash...

There's no doubt that the education that our kids get here in New York and WNY is top notch. Here's how much is your child's teacher is getting rewarded for his or her work.