Rich Thome is an elementary physical education teacher by day and a talented wood carver by night. So talented, in fact, 18 ...

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John Reid leaned down to guide Gilcrest Elementary School kindergarten students in a gym-class scooter relay race. There was a “traffic jam” among a few students using the small, wheeled scooters in ...

Students at Gilcrest Elementary School don’t go a day without physical activity. Weekly 45-minute physical education classes are not sufficient to engage the students’ bodies and minds. Physical ...

Thousands of elementary school teachers have been asked this summer to hold on to their lesson plans as 37 school districts throughout the state seek to show that they are providing students with ...