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Nathania Johnson is a North Carolina writer and content curator who is inspired by news of good people doing good things. Her work has appeared on PEOPLE.com, as well as other national websites.

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16 Unforgettable Acts of Kindness at Schools This Year That We Just Can’t Stop Cheering About

Minnesota HS Senior Sacrifices Cross-Country Finals to Come to the Aid of Struggling Competitor

Teen Uses Bar Mitzvah Gift to Buy 400 Pairs of New Sneakers for Entire Elementary School

CA High School Creates Gift for Blind Senior: a One-of-a-Kind Braille Yearbook She Can Read

Is This the Craziest Bet a Principal Has Ever Made to Reward Students for Good Test Scores?

Hometown Heroes: 13 Inspiring Educators We’re Thankful For This Month

Maryland Women Reunite With First-Grade Teacher After 60 Years to Share Nostalgia and Gratitude

Treat Yourself to 10 Sweet Stories in Schools From the Month of October

It All Starts With the Right Seed: Washington Teacher’s Giant Pumpkin Takes National Prize

New Jersey High School Serves ‘Breakfast After the Bell’ and Feeds 5 Times as Many Hungry Kids

The ‘Kindness in Chalk’ Movement Finds a Few New Sidewalks: Meet the Mom Who Started It All

Food, Friends and Funds: 7 Delectable Deeds Dished Out at School Lunchrooms in September

Fly Me to the Moon, Fifth-Grader: An Ohio School That Requires Ballroom Dance

Virginia STEM Student Helps Mobile Carrier Fix Vulnerability

Teacher of the Day: Ms. Sampietro, Who Spent the Summer Building a ‘STEM Garden’ for Her School

Goodwill Excel Center, D.C.’s Newest High School Experiment, Designed to Help Adults Earn Diplomas

11 Inspiring (and Inspired) Ways Students Across America Were Welcomed Back to Class This Year

Idaho Celebrates Mary Anne McGrory, the State’s 2016 Human Rights Educator of the Year

N.C. School Smashes Together ‘Star Wars’ and the Olympics to Launch Wild Summer Read-A-Thon

Nashville Pastor Sleeps on Roof of His Church Until Enough Backpacks Are Donated for Entire School

Colorado Spends $16 Million on H.S. Counselors — and Saves $300 Million in Safety Net Services

Muhammad Ali’s Kentucky High School Finds Creative Way to Smooth Transition for New Freshmen

The Homeless Teen Who Biked 6 Hours to School — and the Georgia Town That United Around Him

Ms. Brown’s Epic Bike Trip: One Florida Teacher Quits Her Job to Ride 4,000 Miles for a Good Cause

WATCH: 7 Inspiring High School Graduation Speeches We Can’t Stop Raving About

The Incredible Mr. Powers: Texas Middle School Teacher Retires After 60 Years of Perfect Attendance

How a Murder at a Baltimore School Inspired Classmates to Post Highest Graduation Rate in Years

Want to Be a Fireman? Teens at This High School Train in the Flames — and Earn College Credit

15 Incredible Teachers Who Made Our May

Prom Tales — 9 Sweet Headlines That Capture the Big Hearts at the Big Dance

VIDEO: Phillip the Duck Takes First Steps, Thanks to the 3D Feet Printed By These Wisconsin Students

Must-See: Mississippi Dads Turn Out to Give High-Fives to Students on Their First Day of Standardized Tests

Sowing the Seeds of Kindness: 13 Inspiring Things That Happened in Schools in April

Hero Cop Prevents Wisconsin Prom Night Massacre

Merrick Garland: For 18 Years, the Supreme Court Nominee Has Mentored Kids at a DC Grade School

How One Middle School’s ‘Gentlemen’s League’ Is Fueling Extraordinary Results in the Classroom

For the Win: 14 Inspiring Champs Who Made a Difference in Our Schools During the Month of March

Creative: This NC School Retrofitted a Used Bus as a “Classroom on Wheels” to Boost Parent Engagement

The ‘Sleep Ambassadors’ of California: Why Stanford Is Training Teens To Preach the Importance of Shut-Eye

WATCH: This Is What It Looks Like When Michelle Obama Surprises A Classroom of 5th Graders

LISTEN IN: At This Washington High School, Students Earn A’s By Producing Podcasts

No One Eats Alone: The Day Every Student in America Had a Lunch Buddy

Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, Penguins: 12 Amazing Things That Happened in Schools in February

You’re Knot Alone: One Ohio School’s Colorful Campaign to Prevent Suicide

Today’s Hero: Michigan’s Brian Antisdel Just Paid Off School Lunch Balances for 71 Middle Schoolers

Good Deeds, Coast to Coast: 13 Inspiring Acts of Kindness That Happened at Schools in January

Hooray for Alice Smith, the 90-Year-Old Hoosier Who Crocheted 300 Hats For Every Kid at Middlebury Elementary

Watch a Colorblind Student See Color the First Time — All Thanks to Her Math Teacher

After Christmas Tornado Hits Texas School, More Than 700 Turn Out to Relocate Classrooms

Cue the Yuletide Spirit: 13 Amazing Acts of Kindness We Saw In Schools During December

Seattle School Opens in Northgate Shopping Mall With Goal of Helping High School Dropouts

Brianna’s Big Surprise: Kansas Auto Teacher Gives His Car to a Student and Single Mother

Dallas Parents Rally Around School’s Ailing Crossing Guard, Raise Funds for Her Kidney Transplant

The Everyday Heroes: 16 Teachers and School Leaders We’re Thankful for This Thanksgiving

Where the Sidewalk Begins: The 8th Graders Who Got Their City to Put Up $30,000 to Fix a Risky Commute

North Carolina High Schoolers Open Food Pantry To Help Their Classmates

The Day Three WWII Veterans Showed Up to Teach Class at a Georgia High School

No Trick, All Treat: 13 Sweet Things That Happened In and Around America’s Schools in October

Missouri Students Tackle School’s Overcrowding as a ‘Contemporary Issues’ Homework Assignment

The Memphis School Where Teachers Walk Students Home Every Day — and Math Scores are Soaring

Superstudents Creating Superheroes: Why One Missouri School Launched Its Own Comic Con

The 13 Sweetest, Most Inspiring Things That Happened at Schools in September

Mustangs Helping Mustangs: CA High School Rushes to Aid Rivals After Fire Destroys 1,000 Homes

Year of the Outdoor Classroom: Why Schools in Virginia, West Virginia and Michigan Have Joined the National Trend

South Carolina High School Opens Internet Cafe to Boost Students’ Access to Wi-Fi

18 Inspiring Things that Happened In (and Around) America’s Schools Last Month

Meet the Georgia Kindergarten Teacher Who Rescued a 5-Year-Old from a Playground Abduction

How Far Would You Go To Help Kids Learn to Read? This Children’s Author Is Running 11,000 Miles

High School 2.0: Virginia’s Albemarle High Swaps Out Lockers for Laptop Charging Stations

The Day 9,000 Volunteers Showed Up to Repair a Crumbling Detroit High School

11 Inspiring Things That Happened In and Around America’s Schools Last Month

Michigan City Rallies Around Cheerleading Team After Coach Steals $9,000

Best. Summer School. Ever. In West Virginia, the Classroom Is Also a Lego Robot Laboratory

These 3 High School Students Needed a Better Way to Organize Their Homework. So They Built an App

300 Illinois Grade School Students Line Up to Get Beloved Janitor’s Autograph

Graduation FTW: Married Couple Who Endured Internment Camp Gets Diplomas 72 Years Later

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