For the second year, Roosevelt Elementary 1st grade teacher Sara Ball is making 'Morning Tubs' part of her students' daily routine. Thanks to a grant from the Spokane Public Schools Foundation, the kiddos start their day playing with STEM and art-themed objects that get their minds ready to learn first thing in the morning. #SPSFoundation #supportSTEM | Spokane Public Schools

Here’s a peek at my morning routine, juggling five kids before preschool! First I get up and get myself ready. Then I take my Mary Ruth’s multivitamin and Kiala Greens before I make coffee. My husband works from home, so he helps our middle school and high school daughters while I get ready. I wake my preschooler (who’s often in our bed after a bad dream!), and drive my middle schooler to the bus at the end of our long, dark driveway. Then I drop my high schooler off because she’s in a full leg

My K9 partner signaled a "hit" on a 2nd grader's backpack. I was ready to find drugs. I was ready to find a weapon. I wasn’t ready to find the one thing that would break a grown man’s heart right there in the hallway. I’ve been a K9 handler for fifteen years. I’ve seen the worst of humanity. I’ve raided meth labs in Oregon and tracked fugitives through the swamps of Louisiana. I thought my skin was thick enough to handle anything. But last Tuesday, at a routine school demonstration, my dog, Barn