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 ...

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 ...

A fourth grade teacher at Central Elementary in Plainfield, Johnson shared her favorite lessons to teach and the best advice ...

It’s inspiring to see someone go above and beyond. Tonight’s Voices of Inspiration Award for Teacher Excellence banquet brings together 23 Montgomery County teachers that consistently inspire others ...

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 ...

Otto Mower had been prepared to settle into an early retirement in San Diego when economic necessity led him to a job at The Bishop’s School in 1971. The classically trained scholar went on to inspire ...

Jim Talamo is just as happy talking about bowling, gourmet cooking and his collection of math T-shirts as he is discussing the classes he teaches at Ohio State. But when Talamo, a senior lecturer at ...

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 ...

A Chubbuck woman who’s been teaching for 24 years after starting when she was 30 has received the 28th annual J.R. Simplot Inspirational Teacher of the Year award for 2021, which she accepted recently ...

As a teacher of some of the toughest kids in our public schools, I worked hard to identify their assets and to leverage those assets so these kids could be successful students in school and in life.

I enjoyed Ronnie Reese’s obituary on James Connelly, “Teacher and track coach at St. Ignatius College Prep” (Obituaries, Sept. 20), who taught history and math at St. Ignatius for over 40 years. I had ...