{"id":202333,"date":"2026-03-13T02:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202333\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:33:56","slug":"retired-kindergarten-teacher-continues-to-shape-young-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/202333\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired kindergarten teacher continues to shape young minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BATON ROUGE, La. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aginguntold.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aginguntold.com\/\">Aging Untold<\/a>) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2024\/08\/24\/meet-your-neighbor-barbara-longeway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2024\/08\/24\/meet-your-neighbor-barbara-longeway\/\">Barbara Longewa<\/a>y has spent most of her adult life in a kindergarten classroom, teaching 4- and 5-year-olds their letters, numbers and foundational skills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Longeway\u2019s teaching career began in Kentucky in 1969. Now 76, she works at the Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts, where she retired in 2012, only to return part-time a few months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cRetirement just didn\u2019t suit me,\u201d Longeway said. <\/p>\n<p>Building relationships at the foundation <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Longeway said connecting with each student early in the school year is central to her approach. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIf you establish a relationship with each child at the very beginning of the year, then they will receive instruction well, and my job is to deliver instruction,\u201d Longeway said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She said her goal is to instill confidence, creativity and a love of reading \u2014 not just for school, but for pleasure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI love helping them establish the foundation for their lifelong learning,\u201d Longeway said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2024\/08\/24\/meet-your-neighbor-barbara-longeway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wafb.com\/2024\/08\/24\/meet-your-neighbor-barbara-longeway\/\">Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Gray Media Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. (Aging Untold) \u2014 Barbara Longeway has spent most of her adult life in a kindergarten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[79771,79772,168,170,169],"class_list":["post-202333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-aging","tag-aging-untold","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}