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While the canvas is one medium for artists, art itself is a medium for social justice. Just ask any of the women who attended the International Women Festival in Cuba, including two members of the...

If you are looking for just two good reasons to love public schools, then head to the hills. In the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Elementary School, located in what is regionally called “the hill towns” in Albany County, you can meet up with Judy Tambasco and Roz Moser every Wednesday. For the past 20 years, they’ve shown up at the end of the hall in two small nooks to sort books and index cards in order to provide young students with a bag of stories to take home.

Faith Perry is all about the fabric of life. At the beginning of the school year, Mohonasen teacher Faith Perry bought three identical outfits. Switching them out for cleanliness, she is wearing the same look...

Just last spring, Hicksville art educator, Diana Germinario, was recognized when one of her students won first place for her watercolor painting in a statewide Arbor Day poster contest. Well, Ms. Germinario has done it...

When teacher Stacy Herron is on a roll, you will know about it. She doesn’t roll solo; she gathers people, steam and purpose as she spins her bicycle for the cases of missing and...

Exploding pumpkins? Testing DNA from crime scenes? It’s all possible in Rochester teacher Joseph Zuniga’s world. On the set of the daily Homework Hotline TV show, a pumpkin explodes with enough force to blow...

Gail Rae-Garwood talks and writes all the time about slowing down — but she’s not referring to her lifestyle speed. She’s talking about putting the brakes on Chronic Kidney Disease.  When this retired high...

This week I am celebrating the first anniversary of my retirement from a wonderful career as a middle school math teacher. I am volunteering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and yesterday I was inspired...

This is not your average basement band. The musicians aren’t 17, they’re not just starting out, they definitely do not have any kind of punk hair going on, and they’re not trying to get...

Brian Huskie’s refugee students are far more than beautiful, foreign faces and strange, rolling languages to him. He knows their stories, and they are entwined with his own frayed rope and hope. He’s a National...