In case you missed it, Ian Willey (a.k.a. “I.C. Will”), an assistant principal and former Teach for America recruit working at KIPP’s Washington Heights Middle School in New York, released a rap video ...

Alarm bells seemed to sound in teachers’ lounges across America late last year with the debut of ChatGPT — an AI chatbot that was both easy to use and capable of producing dialogue-like responses, ...

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 ...

I'm not someone who sends several emails a day to people saying there's this Internet video you should watch, so I mean it when I say there's this Internet video you should watch (embedded below). The ...

Creativity is not a "you have it" or "you don't" kind of thing. It isn't a personality trait. It's not a "one size fits all" habit of mind. It's not, simply, a set of skills to test for or a roster of ...

The sign on the door still says “storage,” but what’s behind the door is anything but dusty discards. Christian education coordinators yanked shelving and coat racks out of the tiny, windowless room ...

When kids feel they have some control over their food choices, they’re more likely to look forward to the meals you prepare. You can give them control while also teaching them about the benefits of ...

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 ...