STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A single empty chair in the back of a classroom marks an important metaphor and life lesson for students of New Jersey teacher Daniel Gill. Gill, who has been an educator in ...

When you walk into Dan Gill’s classroom at Glenfield Middle School in Montclair, New Jersey, chances are you’ll notice the empty seat that sits in the center. Courtesy Dan Gill It’s not a time-out ...

Dan Gill, 75, a teacher at Glenfield Middle School in Montclair, N.J., always keeps an empty chair in his classroom. (Courtesy of Dan Gill) All 26 chairs in Dan Gill's middle school classroom are ...

MONTCLAIR, N.J. -- It only takes five minutes to hear how loved and respected Daniel Gill is at Glenfield Middle School. Gill has been teaching generations of Montclair, New Jersey students. He has 52 ...

To truly appreciate what Daniel Gill has done in his 53 years of teaching in Montclair, one must look beyond the accumulated clutter in his Social Studies classroom at Glenfield Middle School — past ...

All 26 chairs in Dan Gill’s middle school classroom are occupied — aside from one, which he leaves vacant. For the past 30 years, the social studies teacher at Glenfield Middle School in Montclair, ...