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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses on the ...

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 ...

Two-thirds of students who receive special education services spend 80 percent or more of their days in general education classrooms, where co-teaching has become a common approach for inclusion. At ...

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 ...

In late summer, the educator and writer Mike Rose died of a spontaneous cerebral hemorrhage at his home in Santa Monica; he was seventy-seven. I learned of his death in the pitiless way that one often ...

Recent controversy about literacy guru Lucy Calkins has centered on her approach to reading instruction. But she came to prominence as an expert on writing, and her influence there has been even ...