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 ...

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 ...

To anyone who thinks that poetry is mostly written by stuffy, old dead men, think again – because there’s a whole new group of poets taking the literary world by storm... and they’re kids. Kate ...