First Graders Foster Shy Puppies in the Classroom & It’s Nothing Like You’ve Ever Seen

These first graders help the scared puppies become more confident & sociable, and utlimately, adoptable. Meet the amazing ...
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First Grade Class Fosters Over 110 Puppies With 'Life-Changing' Results

In 2022, first grade teacher Brooke Hughes had an idea. What if she and her class fostered some puppies together in the classroom? It started as a pipe dream. Now, it’s a groundbreaking program that’s ...

Bay Village first-graders create ‘birthday bags’ for families in need

A class of Normandy Elementary School first-graders learn more than academics from their teacher, Dee Dunstan. These students ...
Inside Higher Ed

Making Class Participation Grades Meaningful

I read with interest Anna Broadbent’s essay on the benefits and pitfalls of class participation grades. From my perch as a provost, former dean and former department chair, I find that the grade for ...
YourTango

First Grade Students Forced To Sit In Puddles Of Their Own Pee After Their Teacher Revoked Bathroom Privileges

First graders will misbehave — it's inevitable. They're only 6 or 7 years old, after all. So, parents of a first-grade class at Bartlett Elementary School in Conroe, Texas, were understandably enraged ...
Oregonian

This Portland classroom needed 1 more student to be in line for 2nd teacher, parents say. The district closed the waitlist

Last June, parents from Rose City Park Elementary wrote to leaders at Portland Public Schools to plead for a second teacher to be assigned to their school’s first grade Vietnamese dual language ...