Reading about others’ lives helps students draw relatable connections — strengthening empathy and storytelling skills.

While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has not received that same focus. That is, until the release of ChatGPT last year.

Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

Jennifer Yang, a mother of two, and founder of Dearist, a book and stationery series for kids with everything needed to write and mail personal handwritten letters, turned her passion for letter ...

Writing remains a shifting fuzzy cloud floating in a wide subjective sky. This week, teachers all over the country have been sharing tales of teaching that most difficult of subjects—writing. They are ...

The world is their playground — and their teacher. Adele and Matt Allen are raising their three children with “child autonomy,” allowing their kids to set their own curriculum, bedtimes, menus, meal ...

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