Teach your parents well
GLENN HEIGHTS – With parents' night a week away, Stephanie Kelch's fourth-grade students set to work cutting, coloring and pasting. Days later, they had transformed the hallway outside their classroom into a floor-to-ceiling rain forest. But as the first-year teacher stood amid the frogs and flora, the question remained: Would any parents come?

02/27/2001

Along with her fourth-graders, rookie teacher feels pressure of TAAS
After reminding her students to get plenty of sleep and to eat a good breakfast, it was first-year teacher Stephanie Kelch who lay awake the night before the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills writing test.

01/22/2001

Guiding lights
GLENN HEIGHTS – One by one, the fourth-graders pop out of their chairs and swarm the teacher. "Ms. Kelch, can you help me with this problem?" "Ms. Kelch, may I borrow a piece of paper?"

10/15/2000

Learning curve
GLENN HEIGHTS – With her red pen in hand, Stephanie Kelch spends each Sunday surrounded by piles of papers covered in fourth-grade scrawl.

08/27/2000

Ms. Kelch's first year
GLENN HEIGHTS – The day class rosters were posted at Frank D. Moates Elementary School, Stephanie Kelch made a beeline for the fourth-grade lists.