The surrealist Exquisite Corpse game can help high schoolers playfully explore how structure and character impact stories.

I’ve long been jealous of science teachers because they have liquid nitrogen. I remember the day in eighth grade science class when my teacher brought in the semi-sinister looking metal canister, ...

From playwriting to investigative journalism to graphic fiction, Yale offers a wide range courses in creative writing. And many of these courses are taught by professors in the Faculty of Arts and ...

John McPhee, a master of telling nonfiction stories, became a teacher by accident 43 years ago when Princeton University needed a last-minute replacement. He has steered the course ever since, each ...

Some children enjoy spending hours on end writing paragraphs and stories, but others absolutely dread it.‎ They may have great ideas but struggle to express them on paper. Yet as students move through ...

I’m sharing my go-to resources for helping young children build their writing skills, whether you’re a parent, homeschooler, or early elementary teacher. In this video, I walk through illustration and ...

Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...

As a writer, I am aware of the long and pervasive discourse about the difficulty of writing. Writing is arduous and enervating, frequently frustrating, wrought with failure, and also, I believe, a fun ...

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 ...