Teachers can set up hands-on exploration to promote young students’ ability to calm themselves when emotions are running high ...

A few minutes into the Read 180 class taught by Scott Buresh at Mannheim Middle School, half the students walk to the computers in the back of the classroom while the rest start on workbooks at their ...

October 26, 2009 (PRESS RELEASE) Chicago Public School students and teachers in four elementary schools and one high school now have a new way to deal with their stress during the school day -- the ...

When Olive-Mary Stitt Elementary School teacher Meghan Yarbrough’s third-graders returned from lunch on a recent afternoon, they entered a darkened classroom where they listened to a soothing recorded ...

CAMDEN - A thin blue film covers each fluorescent light fixture in Linda Brown-Bartlett's unconventional first-floor classroom. The blues and greens in her room — striping a hanging hammock in the ...

A small public school on Chicago’s Southwest Side is on the rise academically but it still struggles to reach all its students. This year, Agustin Lara Academy is trying something new to reduce ...

Who hasn't received a note from their teacher saying that their child was too restless during class? The truth is that children's energy doesn't just depend on sleep or discipline at home: what they ...