Incorporating handwriting lessons can have numerous benefits for older students—here’s how to get them started.

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? In Part One, Jenny Vo, Michele Morgan, and Joy Hamm shared wisdom gained from ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

The Teaching of Writing Certificate is an 18-credit hour program and is designed specifically for teachers who are seeking additional expertise in the teaching of writing but do not wish to pursue a ...

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

One of America’s greatest living writers also happens to be one of the country’s longest-running teachers of creative writing. I’m talking about Joyce Carol Oates, author of more than 50 novels, whose ...

Note: In the “Are You Working?” series, a Ph.D. and academic-writing coach answers questions from faculty members and graduate students about scholarly motivation and productivity. This month’s ...

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...

Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...