By Jamie Candee When I was in elementary school, I struggled. I couldn’t read and most subjects felt impossible to learn. But then my second-grade teacher took an interest in my education. She worked with me week after week to help me identify strategies I could use to learn the skills I needed. By the ...

  By Brittany Goerig While students need to be able to recall basic math facts, lessons can’t stop there. Educators should persist in teaching the deep relationship between numbers so that students can eventually solve problems in their own way. Students will become effective critical thinkers if they understand that struggle is a productive part ...