I’m just not a good writer.”It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned.

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

Anne Vilen is a writer and school coach for EL Education and an author of Learning that Lasts: Challenging, Engaging, and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction (2016). Previously, she taught ...

Lesson plans for English language arts from The Learning Network. Social Studies Lesson plans for social studies from The Learning Network. Science & Math Lesson plans for science and math from The ...

A clever teacher used a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich to teach a messy lesson about creative writing. “The students were mind-blown,” Kayleigh Sloan, a first and second grade teacher, tells ...

This third entry in an occasional series from Roy Peter Clark, who witnessed the Poynter Institute’s founding, explores its history in honor of its 50th anniversary. It would be hard to estimate how ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways to integrate writing in social studies classes? In schools, all of us need to be writing teachers, incuding those of us who teach social studies ...