Writing

How Writing Lights Up Your Brain

I was putting together resources to support teachers in weaving writing into their classes when I came across an article…

I love scouring the internet for hidden gems of insight about learning and teaching. The other night, I was binge-watching…

As more and more schools turn their attention to teaching writing, I wanted to create easier ways for teachers to…

Some of the teachers I’m working with are struggling to add writing to their practice. Even though everyone is telling…

LitHub recently asked: What is it that makes trains such great writing spaces? Some might choose to write on trains,…

I walked into a bookstore last week. There were stacks of perennial Best books, but no book called The Best…

While working with a middle school literacy coach recently, we talked about how to make homework more meaningful to their…

It is easy for parents and teachers to feel uncomfortable with the ubiquity of cell phones in children’s lives. In…

Like me, you probably don’t fully appreciate the importance of punctuation and grammar in making society function. Fortunately, Malcolm Gladwell’s…

Leave it to a linguist like Columbia University’s John McWhorter to challenge popular fears that texting marks the end of language…

I’ve said it before: if we are serious about teaching computer science in K-12 schools, we have to reimagine how…

Etymology is one thing, but to look at the historical roots of letters themselves is just pure alphabetic joy.

It is a unique talent to translate complex phenomena to others in a way that is insightful, engaging, and avoids…

I’ll say it again: we must do more to blur the lines between the worlds of numbers and letters. This…

Pour a beverage of choice, plug in your headphones, and enjoy this fantastic podcast on the state of writing and…

It was 1963 and Robert Frost had died. President Kennedy offered a glorious eulogy for Frost, but it was also…