Teachers are called many things: educators, mentors, instructors, and sometimes the accidental mom. No matter what they are called, we can all agree that they truly have a gift of influencing lives ...

Inspire: To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion; stimulate to action; motivate. To affect or touch. To breathe life into. The longer I teach, the more important it is for me to see that my ...

Renowned academic and historian Henry Brooks Adams once said, "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." A living example of this is Glenbard South High School physics ...

AN “amazing and inspirational teacher” who is “selfless and hard working” was honoured with one of our Guardian Education ...

Otto Mower had been prepared to settle into an early retirement in San Diego when economic necessity led him to a job at The Bishop’s School in 1971. The classically trained scholar went on to inspire ...

At the door of a high school cafeteria, a silver-haired former teacher with a slight smirk and bright blue eyes shared hugs and handshakes with former students. Four generations of them. “Tell me- ...

Membership in the Teachers’ Academy has provided University Lecturer Terhi Karaharju-Suvanto with fresh perspectives and insights. For Professor Johan Bärlund, the most important benefit has been ...

A head teacher said a visit from Great British Bake Off judge Dame Prue Leith was "a huge inspiration" to pupils. Dame Prue ...

Earlier this month during a telephone conversation, the executive editor of a large university press asked me a challenging question about the future of publishing in academe: Did I still see a space ...

I enjoyed Ronnie Reese’s obituary on James Connelly, “Teacher and track coach at St. Ignatius College Prep” (Obituaries, Sept. 20), who taught history and math at St. Ignatius for over 40 years. I had ...