Saxon Brown possesses a rare combination of childlike idealism and old soul pragmatism. Both traits have come in handy to the first-year English teacher at Bel Air High School, a large school of about ...

As the UMass Lowell Library’s first-year experience and instruction coordinator, Yolanda Hood helps new students on campus learn about available services and resources, from required course materials ...

First-year/first-time admission to the University at Buffalo is based on a holistic review of your application that considers your academic marks, test scores, essay and recommendations. We are ...

Let’s get this out of the way immediately: I have a Ph.D. in English, more specifically, in rhetoric and composition. My decades of academic life have been occupied by the study and teaching of ...

I just finished my 66th, and last, semester of teaching high school English. A few years ago, as part of being a mentor to a new teacher, I wrote a letter to my first-year teaching self, then gave it ...

The first year in the classroom can be overwhelming and exhausting. “Everything from my classroom culture to my instruction spiraled out of control my first few months, and the reality of having my ...