Behind Stevens’ classroom philosophy is a deeply personal inspiration: her father, a middle school math teacher for 30 years. In her room hangs his worn wooden yardstick, a quiet symbol of the legacy ...

Adolescents crave purpose and autonomy—a set of classroom jobs can help. When Meredith Howard asks her incoming middle schoolers whether they had classroom jobs in elementary school—tasks like line ...

Kat Thompson is the audience editor of Eater’s Southern California/Southwest region. The clicks of gas stoves being ignited, the scrape of heavy-bottom pots against stovetops, the heated whispers of a ...