HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — It was the middle of a writing lesson in Gabrielle Grace’s first grade class at Sand Creek Elementary in suburban Denver, and students were furiously jotting down details ...

It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Jackie Mader, The Hechinger Report HIGHLANDS RANCH — It was the middle of a writing lesson in Gabrielle Grace’s first-grade class at Sand Creek Elementary ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

Why should students take a writing course within the major? Because we grow as writers throughout our lives and we face changing writing demands in light of changing school, community, and ...

Metacognition is an essential part of writing instruction: with a metacognitive focus, we help students activate their prior knowledge; practice and apply new strategies for the writing and research ...

Whether we like it or not, generative artificial intelligence is shifting how people create and experience texts, obligating those of us who teach writing to also teach critical AI literacy. This page ...

I was very encouraged to read a recent New York Times article by Dana Goldstein that asks what students “lose when they stop writing.” Truth be told, I was a little bummed not to have been interviewed ...