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 Semester-Long Story
Nurturing perseverance & a sense of exploration.
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Show and Don’t Tell
Using flash fiction to teach personal narrative.
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A Disciplined Eye & a Wild Mind
A thank you to Bernadette Mayer.
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You Must Change Your Life
Demystifying and remystifying poetry in the classroom.
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Here Papi Catch
A teaching artist guides students through the movie in their minds.
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Is That a Rock?
Erasure as empowerment in the middle school classroom.
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Using the Broken Pieces
Reflections on writing & teaching poetry.
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Willing to Listen
In praise of listening.
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Serious Play
Creating liberated spaces for the making of poetry.
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Listening to the Work
In praise of listening.
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The Poetry of Prepositions
Teaching Robert Burleigh’s Hoops.
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A Foundation in Activism
Reflections on the history of Teachers & Writers Collaborative.
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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 & 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.