A couple of years ago, I was working as lead facilitator in an e-mentoring program for new teachers. Several recognized teachers from around the nation were contributing their very best “first days” ...

In the heart of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto High School junior Anna Luskin freely uses her cell phone in between classes. Senior Sean Slattery taps notes into his personal digital assistant as his ...

I once had a principal whose core beginning-of-the-year discipline strategy was insisting, in August meetings, that the first day of any school year should be dominated by reading, illustrating, ...

A list of classroom rules at a Pueblo Middle School is generating concern among parents and District 60. Many are worried the set of rules laid out by a 6th grade teacher are too strict. On the first ...