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 ...

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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 ...

California is in the middle of an ambitious plan to offer transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year in what’s poised to be the largest free preschool program in the ...

December 11, 2025 - A tiny school district in rural Merced County has invested heavily in school counseling. And UCLA researchers have recognized the results. Paula Merrigan loves being a transitional ...

One November morning, a little after 8 a.m., Jessica Arrow and 14 of her kindergarteners are sitting in a circle on a rug in her classroom at Symonds Elementary School here. Some sit cross-legged, ...

ALTURAS, Calif. — The new kindergarten teacher resigned via email on a Sunday night in February. It didn’t matter that 18 children would show up in her classroom the next morning. She said she was ...

Photographs by Eric Ryan Anderson, Gabriella Angotti-Jones, Chase Castor, George Etheredge, JerSean Golatt, Gavin McIntyre, Alyssa Pointer, Whitten Sabbatini and Zack Wittman Boys are falling behind ...

JACKSON, MI - Chelsea Siedzik has filled multiple roles in her career, but she found that being “a big kid with the little kids” was her true calling. Siedzik, 36, is in her first year teaching ...

San Diego County Credit Union honors Mrs. Drew Bruce, a Ramona Elementary kindergarten teacher, for her heartfelt dedication.