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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mo Rocca meets a Broadway musical legend who helps honor classroom legends: "Oscar Hammerstein was a teacher of mine; I was 11, 12 years old. He sort of stabilized me by teaching me what I wanted to ...

In need of some teaching inspiration? You might find it on the road this summer. Education Week has teamed up with Roadtrip Nation, a nonprofit that’s sending a group of teachers across the country in ...