Consider the humble lump of pink Play-Doh. To a parent, it’s a quick toddler playtime activity. But ask an early childhood educator about Play-Doh, and it’s a science experiment, an opportunity for ...

We check in with Ledgewood Elementary teacher Julie Wiest and she tells us what led her to end up teaching Kindergarten. She ...

It was all fun and games (and finger painting and singing and dancing) in preschool, but kindergarten is a different ball game. Knowing whether or not your kid is ready for the structure and ...

When Zulya Nuñez moved from teaching in preschool to a transitional kindergarten classroom, she was shocked at the differences. This story is part of a special series on transitional kindergarten in ...

January 15, 2026 - We visited Heather Povinelli in her Monrovia classroom, where we spoke about how she got back into teaching, how she creates an inclusive classroom, and what she learned conducting ...

Yoshira Escamilla was student-teaching at McNary Heights Elementary School in Umatilla when she was asked to take over a kindergarten classroom in the middle of the school year. That was January 2021, ...

On the calendar in Room 202 at Mission Education Center, there’s a sad face scribbled across Oct. 31. For the 4-year-olds in the Upper Noe school’s transitional kindergarten classroom, Halloween won’t ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT/Gray News) - A teacher at Nebraska’s biggest school district is welcoming new students this week for her 41st straight school year. Kaye Kiepert-Hensley has greeted students in her ...