Tavia Wade is a mom to 5-year-old twin girls and a 17-month old Tavia Wade Tavia Wade anxiously anticipated the day she would drop off her 5-year-old twins for their first day of kindergarten.

Twenty poets, storytellers and musicians met at the Camille Creek School on the campus of the Napa County Office of Education on Nov. 11 when Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko and I invited ...

As the school year draws to a close, is there a teacher who has inspired you? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander says his mother was his first teacher. He learned from her that "teachers are a ...

As part of teacher appreciation month, Morning Edition asked NPR’s audience to write a poem about teachers who have had an impact on their lives. We put out this call a week before the mass shooting ...

A tearful mom who dropped off her kids at kindergarten received the best encouragement from a teacher. “She was so warm and welcoming,” Tavia Wade, a mother of three in Utah, tells TODAY.com. Wade ...