As I sent my kids ... a prayer for the beginning of the school day. As we workshopped a draft, we discussed what we should cover in it. It began, “Dear God, Bless our school and our teachers ...

Ultimately, the court found that the school district violated the coach’s First Amendment rights; his public prayer ... teachers want to pray together before, after or during the school day ...

held a Back to School Day of Prayer event Monday evening to pray for students, parents, teachers, faculty, and student resource officers before the first day of school. Spiritual leaders ...

THERE'S nothing quite like starting school for the first time ... Parents must remember that children moving schools or experiencing their very first day have not had enough life experience ...

Here is how teachers are navigating ... continue through the first week. Once the children begin to understand that their parents will be back for them after the school day ends, it gets easier ...

A teacher’s “Welcome to Kindergarten” song is helping to reduce first-day-of-school anxieties for many children this year. Dwayne Reed, a dean of students at a Chicago elementary school ...