Teacher Leticia Denoya stands at the front of her classroom, at Natchaug Elementary in Windham, Conn. Her first-graders sit criss-cross applesauce on the reading rug. "Do you remember last week, we ...

A child's behavior problems can be a daily struggle for parents, but many kids are learning important lessons and finding unlikely heroes in a group of puppets and a program called Dinosaur School.

Mesner Puppet Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, is producing a new line of educational digital videos and supplemental materials to help pre-K through elementary school-aged children learn how to ...

Children are not born alike. Some are born to be tall; some short. Some are really smart; others are not. Some are born with physical impairments or develop emotional handicaps that may make them ...

Local nonprofit, WhyArts, has created a program teaching kids about disabilities through puppetry. The puppet show with purpose aims to instill compassion in kids. CREATED A PROGRAM TO TEACH KIDS ...

A new program being piloted in a handful of Connecticut classrooms, called Feel Your Best Self, is using the joy of puppetry to teach children how... In one first-grade classroom, puppets teach ...

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