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Laura Macey is very busy these winter weeks. Her high school culinary students are providing food for a 14-school wrestling invitational, and then finger foods and desserts for 200 people at the Schenectady Education...

Students in the town of Guilderland in the Capital Region are making mitten history today as they bring in warm, colorful hand coverings to share with others in need. Two educators set up a fake green fir as a Mitten Tree, and students soon began loading the branches with gloves, hats … and mittens.

Not every student has sufficient clothing to keep out the cold, or nice enough to keep away the sneers. Some families know the knot of not having enough food. And in Morrisville, there is no longer a grocery store. But clothes and food for the taking can be found inside the local high school, thanks to the efforts of concerned teacher Meaghan Palmer. Here in the Morrisville Clothes Closet, students can find donated shirts, pants, coats, new socks and underwear for themselves and their families.

As a CUNY Brooklyn College student majoring in kinesiology, Jamir Dickens is becoming familiar with studying the mechanics of body movements — but his knowledge was tested in a new way this past summer...

During his 40 years of teaching biology, anatomy and life science in Orchard Park, Tony Agnello was also busy experimenting with how he could improve the lives of others. Now in retirement, he is strengthening...

After retiring from 34 years as a reading specialist, elementary and secondary school teacher in New York’s public schools, Anthony D’Alessandro took to the pen. He’s written books, poetry, and newspaper columns. He has also...

Here’s what a shiny dome or two can do: By shaving his head and getting scores of others to shave theirs, Lake Shore teacher Tony George started a revolution of razors that has raised $5 million for Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. George — a social studies teacher, and president of the Lake Shore Teachers Association — is founder of Bald for Bucks, an organization powered primarily by teachers and students to raise money for cancer research.

While the closing ceremonies may have just wrapped up the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, medals are still up for grabs in Saranac Lake where students of physical education teacher Samantha Betters-Ano are mastering Olympic...

Friends of America's VetDogs are raising money to help get puppies bred and trained for veterans and first responders in need; retired teacher Patricia Summers, United Teachers of Northport, is the Friends pack leader.

This is the new home of the South End Childrens Café, a place where about 30 children gather each day to get help with homework, some with the assistance of volunteer teachers such as Cindy MacCallum and Sandra Munella Olson.