Introduction 

Remembering to talk to your ideal audience is key to making sure your content resonates with the right people. If you are just writing to a general audience, then many people tend ...

Using Student Feedback Forms to Encourage Written Self Evaluation

Tired of spending tons of time grading and giving feedback only for students to push your carefully crafted words into their backpa...

How to Write the Common App Essay

You know that students need more help with their college application essays, or they need some sort of structure to start. Maybe its the end of the year and you wa...

Mini Lessons are a great way to provide chunkable content and incorporate seemingly smaller skills that can be practiced over time. Personally, I love using mini lessons in conjunction with stations...

We’ve become a meme: a picture of a teacher bringing all their grading home in a pick up truck or carrying a stack of papers taller than the teacher is… Well, I’m out: I refuse to normalize sacrific...

Writing Teachers’ Struggles

We all see it: the blank stares at digital documents that indicate students have no clue where to go next. Sure, you have described that students need to write more conc...

Introduction

You're probably feeling a bit apprehensive about your college application essay. It's okay! Writing a good essay is hard, especially when it's the only thing you have that might get yo...