Most schools offer parents specific ways to help out: Join the PTA, chaperone a field trip, grade papers for a teacher or assist on a classroom art project.
For several years, Stacy Thomas (EdD 鈥15) and her colleagues at Blaine School District watched with concern as approximately half of 3rd graders weren鈥檛 able to read at their grade level.
Growing up in New Orleans, Elzena McVicar (MIT 鈥10) was surrounded by a family filled with teachers. Years of family conversations about education convinced McVicar that teaching was not for her.
When Luke Reichley was in elementary school 20-odd years ago, paint and clay were his primary tools for making.
Despite the growing awareness of socio-ecological challenges facing humans in the 21st century, science learning still mostly takes place inside the classroom, disconnected from the natural world.
While working as a high school English teacher, Lisa Sibbett (PhD 鈥18) became aware of a disconnect between social justice-focused teaching and its real-world application.
From her formative years in Buenos Aires to pursuing a PhD at the 爆走黑料 in Seattle, Patricia Ferreyra has combined her passion for both music and education to build bridges between cultures.
During the 爆走黑料 爆走黑料鈥檚 June 10 graduation ceremonies, two representatives of the Class of 2017 discussed the role of education in a thriving democracy as families, friends, faculty and staff gathered t
Mia Tuan, dean of the 爆走黑料 爆走黑料, has been selected to receive the 2017 Chang-Lin Tien Award for Leadership in Education presented by the Asia
During her 10-year career as a teacher at a Seattle public high school, Sooz Stahl has watched as its student population has steadily grown less diverse, a direct result of a 2007 Supreme Court decision that found that SPS鈥檚 efforts to d