Elizabeth Winchester

Elizabeth Siris Winchester has written for TIME For Kids for almost 20 years. She graduated from Middlebury College, in Vermont, and earned a master’s degree in teaching from New York University. Liz has covered a range of topics for TFK, from bullying, bats, and butterflies, to amazing kids and groundbreaking figures. She also helped develop a TFK cooking show. Liz loves running, yoga, baking, music, dogs, and especially spending time with family and friends.

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Officer’s Best Friend

October 9, 2024

Matthew Cona, 12, aspires to be a K-9 handler. Here, he speaks with a retired officer about the job. As a police officer in Nassau County, New York, Mike LaSala had partners who didn’t talk. They were covered in fur.…

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A Cool School

November 4, 2016

For most kids, a typical school day includes lessons in math, science, and English language arts. But for Callista Grant, 11, a typical day might also include instruction in American Indian drumming and dancing. She studies the Ojibwe (oh-jib-way) and Lakota languages,…

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Outdoor Adventure

April 15, 2016

A praying mantis, an abandoned baby bird, blooming daffodils. Students and teachers at Glenwood Landing Elementary, in Glen Head, New York, never know what will turn up in the school’s outdoor classroom. The discoveries lead to engaging lessons. “They allow…

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Star Ballerina

February 5, 2016

A basketball court is an unusual place to dance ballet—or for a star ballerina to be discovered. But it was on a court at a Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro, California, that Misty Copeland took her first ballet…

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Eyes on Vision

April 24, 2015

Two years ago, Azara Mason was having trouble seeing the board in class. An eye doctor told her she had myopia, or nearsightedness. People who are nearsighted have trouble seeing things that are far away. Azara, 9, now wears glasses…

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Forbidden Foods

March 28, 2008

When Eliza Rader was 17 months old, she tasted peanut butter for the first time. Immediately afterward, she broke out in hives, her tongue swelled and she had trouble breathing. Her mother rushed her to a doctor. Later, tests confirmed…