The YES! Magazine article, “Living Large in a Tiny House,” by Carol Estes is a story about Dee Williams downsizing from a three-bedroom house for an 84-square-foot bungalow. Students will use Dee’s ...
What are three things that matter most to you and to people significantly older than you? How do your responses compare? Students will read and respond to the YES! article “Three Things That Matter ...
When I think about the best writing I have ever read, one of the essays I go back to time and time again is "The Falling Man," which is a distillation of maybe all the feelings everyone has ever felt ...
Lisa Collum is the founder and CEO of Top Score Writing, a curriculum that teaches writing skills. When she was a teacher, she created it for her own students — then she turned it into a business. She ...
As the new school year begins, all those little hands in elementary school are once again at the center of a fierce debate: Is cursive writing a skill that’s still worth teaching, or an out-of-date ...
On May 31st panic set in. I had agreed to commit to writing every day in the month of June as part of a faculty writing group experiment. Inspired both by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), ...