National nonprofit plans to record 625 interviews across the U.S. Sept. 19, 2011 — -- For Warren Weems, it was a fifth-grade teacher and a report card that motivated him to work in the classroom.

A teacher speaks to students in her second-grade class in 2020. Teacher turnover reached a record high after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) I didn’t come to my L.A.

YouTube is a video platform, not a formal educational institution. Brian McLogan always wanted to be a math teacher. During high school, he found himself unable to connect with traditional styles of ...

From 1967 to 1973, I was a teacher in the South Bronx, responsible for the education of children in the fourth and fifth grades (including one year as acting assistant principal, for grades 1-6).

I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not ...