Teachers are called many things: educators, mentors, instructors, and sometimes the accidental mom. No matter what they are called, we can all agree that they truly have a gift of influencing lives ...

Inspire: To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion; stimulate to action; motivate. To affect or touch. To breathe life into. The longer I teach, the more important it is for me to see that my ...

Kathryn Prouse, a school teacher with an astrology-inspired seating chart, talks to PEOPLE exclusively about her ...

Renowned academic and historian Henry Brooks Adams once said, "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." A living example of this is Glenbard South High School physics ...

Otto Mower had been prepared to settle into an early retirement in San Diego when economic necessity led him to a job at The Bishop’s School in 1971. The classically trained scholar went on to inspire ...

The note welcomed 4th-graders to their new school year. — -- A teacher wanted to welcome her students to a new school year in a special way. So the educator in Queensland, Australia, crafted a ...

Earlier this month during a telephone conversation, the executive editor of a large university press asked me a challenging question about the future of publishing in academe: Did I still see a space ...

I enjoyed Ronnie Reese’s obituary on James Connelly, “Teacher and track coach at St. Ignatius College Prep” (Obituaries, Sept. 20), who taught history and math at St. Ignatius for over 40 years. I had ...