Educators are often asked “how do you know that your teaching is working?” One of my favorite stories involves a teacher who ...

The preteen years are fraught with emotion and change, and a lot of us forget just how much we learn, encounter and confront ...

The "Percy Jackson" series by Rick Riordan will return to TV screens this year. If you can't wait for Season 2, read one of ...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert Cialdini, 1984 Revised multiple times since its initial publication, this is the first book I read about why and how we influence others.

One reader quoted a passage from the Bible as part of assessing the performance of Oklahoma's controversial top school official ...

Author Gloria L. Huang helps demystify the magic of creating a middle-grade novel by explaining the different steps that ...

you have to enjoy what you’re reading. If my wife and I try a new TV show and neither of us likes it after the first episode or two, we abandon it and find something else. Why should books be ...

As with past years, I like to kick off the new year by reflecting on what I read during the previous year. And 2024 was a ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

We asked librarians from Round Rock, Dripping Springs and Austin, which new releases they are most looking forward to this ...

Valerie Westphal grew up loving school and knew in the third grade she wanted to teach. She’s taught elementary school for almost 20 years and now teaches fourth grade at Bryan County Elementary.