As part of a speech literacy initiative launched by the Department of Education in 2014 in about 150 schools, Marjorie James pushes into the kindergarten Integrated Co-Teaching class at the East Elmhurst Community School three times a week and works closely with its teachers.

What’s a teacher to do when students are focused on their cellphones instead of the day’s lesson? 

A love of art connects the past to the present at the HS of Art and Design in midtown Manhattan, where the biannual Draw-a-Thon builds on a legacy begun in the late 1970s, when students would gather before class to practice drawing one of their classmates.

Snack carts at District 75 school in the Bronx provide an innovative way for students to learn about commerce, coins and communication.

“It has always been my firm belief that little hands can make a big difference in the world,” says Nicholas Taranto, the media teacher at PS/IS 235 in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

MS 57 Chapter Leader Nicole Smith’s idea to help 47 young Bahamian college students, driven from their homes by Hurricane Dorian in September, quickly morphed into a community effort.