Dan Spencer said it took most of his educational life to realize he wasn’t “stupid.” Spencer, the Information & Education Specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services branch in Puget Sound/Olympia Peninsula (Wash.), for more than a decade struggled…

Pola Millard believes she’s found her true calling teaching the students at New Hope Christian Academy — and her daughter — the Orton-Gillingham methodology.  

Monday is National School Principals’ Day, and what better way to honor them than by featuring William Colon, the principal at Greenwood Elementary School. Colon, 42, who has been principal at the Toledo, Ohio school since 2007, has organized school-wide…

It’s World Penguin Day, which coincides with the annual march to the sea by the penguins in Antarctica. Check out this cool collection of children’s books — both fiction and nonfiction — that focus on the 17 species of penguins,…

Learning Latin has become a breeze for some of the inmates in the Wyoming Department of Corrections, thanks to the Orton-Gillingham methodology the educational staff has implemented into the curriculum. Orton-Gillingham is a structured, phonics-based multi-sensory approach to teaching students to…