Category: The Art of Teaching Writing
Articles, essays, editorials, and meditations on the art of teaching writing and T&W’s mission to inspire the imagination.
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The Poetry of Prepositions
Teaching Robert Burleigh’s Hoops.
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Canon in a Flash
Reshaping the canon with flash fiction in the creative writing classroom.
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Listening Empty
In praise of listening.
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National Novel Writing Month and the Tale of the Indian Kids
The power of telling your own story for National Novel Writing Month.
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Alternative Strategies for Artificial Intelligence in the Writing Classroom
An educator asks ChatGPT how to use the online chatbot in writing classrooms.
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Escaping the Revision Trap
How gamifying the writing workshop gets results.
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Queering the Creative Writing Classroom
A Florida teacher shares LGBTQ+-friendly strategies to foster an inclusive classroom.
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The Small Sounds of the Past
In praise of listening.
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A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers
Let the poem do the teaching.
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Keep Your Hands Moving
The value of drawing in writing class.
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Converse with Everything
On communing with your surroundings as a writing approach.
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Tending the Roots in a S.T.E.M.-Crazed World
Gleanings from a curriculum in wonder.
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Remix the Plan, Return to the Purpose
An excerpt from The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison.
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Some Victorious Answer to Everything
Bill Murray and Ferlinghetti’s “Dog” as an invitation to write new poetry.
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Multilingual Approaches Toward English Prose
2022 Bechtel Prize Winner Shilpi Suneja’s students make language their subject.
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Writing from the Other End
Creative growth with Kostas Anagnopoulos.
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Reading and Critiquing Trauma Memoirs
A trauma-informed approach to workshopping memoir writing.
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Serious Lightness
A profile of teaching artist Joanna Fuhrman.
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The B+ Student
On balance, brevity, and powder days.
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Giving the Writer Permission to Play
An essay in four acts.
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Because Your Liberation is Bound Up with Mine
Introducing the 2021 PEN America / L’Engle Rahman Mentorship Prize recipients.
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Superheroic Delight Songs
A poetry-inspired mural at Lea Elementary in West Philly.
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Breaking Through with Poetry
The teacher as writer.
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