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Teacher Adopts ‘Holy Terror’ Student No One Else Wanted
Cruz Riojas came from a troubled home: He was reportedly beaten by his stepfather, lived in a decrepit one-room lean-to with six other family...
Dance Teacher Pairs Jewish and Palestinian Children With Award-Winning Results
"What I am asking them to do is to dance with the enemy," says Pierre Dulaine in the 88-minute documentary, Dancing in Jaffa.
Dulaine, a...
Teachers Left ‘Speechless’ by Stranger who Picked up Tab for Autism Students
A school trip to a local restaurant turned into an emotional and wonderful experience for a group of students with autism this month, thanks...
9-Year-old Hero Saves Teacher Who Passed Out
A teacher in Poplar Bluff, Missouri is lucky that one of her nine-year-old students is a movie lover.
She was teaching her class at the...
Teacher Keeps Promise to Send Letters Students Wrote to Themselves 20 Years Ago
For the past four decades, a Saskatchewan high school English teacher has kept his commitment to thousands of former students by mailing them all...
Former Students Show Teacher, 97, How Much She Meant to Them
When she was still traveling, and at 84 she was climbing mountains, someone asked Azella Taylor if she’d ever married and had children.
“I never...
Google Gives $600K to Calif. Teachers to Spend in Classrooms
Because most teachers spend their own money to simply buy classroom supplies, imagine the joy across San Francisco area schools last week, when 604...
Students Discover Math Teacher’s Secret Identity… As Baby Cuddler
With his short gray hair, watchful eyes, authoritative voice and stern manner, high school math teacher and Vietnam veteran Jim O'Connor is used to...
Palestinian Men Train to Become Yoga Teachers
In some Palestinian communities yoga is being introduced for the first time as a way to reduce stress and create a sense of connectedness.
Adults...
Teacher’s Amazing Strategy on Bullying, Loneliness
Every Friday afternoon one extraordinary teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children...
Iranian Teacher Shaves Head to Support Bullied Pupil – Class Does Too
When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness,...
Local Teacher Was Secret Millionaire Who Left Half Million to the Schools
Her neighbors just learned that the former first grade teacher who lived up the street in Simsbury, Connecticut and died recently at 87, amassed...
Kristin Chenoweth Pulls Teacher From Audience for a Stunning Duet
When Kristen Chenoweth called a fan out of the audience to help with a fun duet, she didn't know the lady was stupendous voice coach.
Sarah...
Principal Fires Security Guards to Hire Art Teachers — and Transforms School
A school constructed in 2003 for children in Roxbury, Mass., was already mired in violence and failure when principal Andrew Bott showed up in...
Third Grade Teacher’s Small Act Still Inspires Baseball Legend Jim Abbott
Jim Abbott was born with only one hand.
Despite the impairment, he won an Olympic gold medal, played professional baseball, pitched a no-hitter, wrote a...
Teacher Turns Low-income Kids Into Chess Champions
Ted Komada, the music teacher who started a chess club nine years ago at Killip Elementary School, hoped to help the mostly low-income students...
Teachers Ditch Student Desk Chairs for Yoga Balls
Robbi Giuliano thinks ditching students' desk chairs in favor of yoga balls is one of the best decisions she ever made in 11 years...
Teacher Helps Injured Embarrassed Student Fit In
Six-year-old Brantley Rogers severely injured his eye last week and was nervous about returning to class with an eye patch.
But his Jacksonville, Florida kindergarten...
‘Brilliant Bus’ Mobile Classroom Gains Support for Retired Teacher’s Effort
A retired teacher, who has poured her $900,000 retirement nest egg into a technology classroom on wheels for underprivileged children, has gained an outpouring...
Teacher Brings Yoga to Juveniles Behind Bars
Leslie Booker began her career in the fashion industry but exchanged the runway for a juvenile detention center in the Bronx. As a dedicated...