Clarification: This story has been updated to clarify the nature of the organization WestEd. Using an elementary curriculum aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards improved students’ science ...

At the end of Sheila Norris’ kindergarten class at Hillsmere Elementary School, her students figured out that rules keep people safe. They explored the topic “rules” throughout the day as part of a ...

Mahoniss Graham, 6, holds one of the treats he won for his first-grade class in a snow contest in February at the Syracuse Academy of Science. Or explain the significance of gods and goddesses, ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...

All of the Taunton Public School district's elementary schools will launch a new early literacy tutoring program targeting ...

The new literacy initiative was piloted in kindergarten classrooms at Garfield Elementary School throughout this school year, and the kindergarten curriculum will be used across the district starting ...

First impressions can mean a lot. So 1st-grade teacher Ruth Wills has big plans for this year at Aurora’s McCarty Elementary School. Wills is introducing a program aimed at enhancing communication ...

This fall, educators are adjusting their lesson plans to make more time for social and emotional skills, after last year's pandemic-related closures kept many kindergartners at home. Five-year-old ...