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Courtesy of Charles Jischke/Purdue University This story is part of a group of stories called How do teachers captivate their students? Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask great educators how they approach their jobs. When she started her teaching career in Indianapolis Public Schools, Shatoya Ward tried to reach every student who came into her classroom. Some of them she could connect with, and some of them she couldn’t. She wondered: What happened to the students who struggled? When Ward went to work at an adult high school, geared toward helping those over 18 finish t...

On top: Laura Calderon and William Brewer. On bottom, from left: Sherri Winters, Andrea Rediger, Tiffani Saunders and Ann Strahle. Campaigns for Ball-Chatham's school board are underway. The six candidates gathered virtually March 4 for a forum in advance of the April 6 election. There are four seats up for election. According to 2020 figures from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), of about 4,750 students in the public school district in Chatham, 77.8% are white, 7.4% are of two or more races, 5....

Stanley Kurtz warns the “action civics” curriculum will use Critical Race Theory to teach students community organization for leftist causes.

March 5, 2021 Educators at a public high school in Illinois were astonished to learn when they showed up for work one day that everything from the color of their skin to snow shoveling indicates “systemic racism.” On Feb. 26, Naperville 203 Community Unit School District hosted a systemic racism training for faculty and staff, bringing in “antiracist” coach Dena Simmons for a keynote speech. The Countywide Equity Institute featured 10 speakers lecturing on “equity and inclusion” practices for “marginalized and/or underrepresented” students, as well as implicit bias and microag...

In case you missed it this week: Gov. J.B. Pritzker's budget proposal, Michael Madigan's resignation, new teaching standards, winter storm news, COVID vaccine updates and more.