When I was in 6th grade, my teacher set aside our scheduled lesson for a discussion on what was going on in the world around us. A young man in Baltimore named Freddie Gray had just died while in ...

Feathers is a story with reminders of the good old days: afros, bell bottoms and hanging out at the basketball courts. But life for the character Frannie in Jacqueline Woodson's new novel takes a bit ...

Way back when, when I was in the sixth grade, I had a teacher that for some reason I wasn’t too popular with. Miss Peters was her name, and it took a bit of hair pulling to get her to change her mind ...

WETHERSFIELD, CT (WFSB) - Sixth grade homeroom teacher from Emerson-Williams Elementary, Jessica Sitler, always uses lessons in her classroom to challenge her students. “This one in particular was ...

Six little words – mundane to anyone else – electrified me: Boxed Lunch on the Capitol Steps. It was one line from an itinerary of an upcoming field trip to Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. I ...

If you told five-year-old me about the mental health challenges I would face starting in 6th grade, she wouldn't want to grow up. Though things have gotten a lot better since then, it's hard to forget ...