Pierson Elementary News Today

Even at 74, Jeanne Jendrzejewski says she has a few years of teaching left. On a recent visit to her classroom, she shared why she continues to teach.

Food Brings Hope, a charity that provides nutrition and educational programs, is leaving Pierson after being unable to lease part of a town building.

I enjoy painting and playing chess and tic-tac-toe with the other students. My mom is taking English classes next door.

The "Computer Science is Elementary" project puts coding into 12 high-poverty elementary schools across the state. Iowa educators hope this will give students of all demographics the tools to pursue computer science.

I attend Food Brings Hope KidsZone with my family. It has helped me, my brother and cousins and is a great place to learn and become a better student.

Brooklyn Freer has never been much of a talker. Her mom had to pry just to hear about her day, she hated to talk about her feelings, and she didn’t like school that much.  So when she had to transfer from a private school to Pine Trail Elementary in Ormond Beach for the third grade, her mom was worried. Thanks to Brooklyn’s teacher Jenny Haney, she soon realized she didn’t need to be. “She’s so different now,” said her mom, Alexis Freer. “She’s saying stuff that I can’t belie...

The Daytona Beach News-Journal Give Christmas to the forgotten My grandmother loved Christmas. She enjoyed decorating, going shopping and giving presents. Towards the end of her life, she had to live in an assisted living facility. My mother would go visit her often. During the holidays, my mother would decorate her room and even set up a small Christmas tree for my grandmother. My mother would notice that the other residents of the assisted living facility did not have decorations and definite...