FROM THE ARCHIVES/EDUCATING THE IMAGINATION Teachers & Writers Collaborative seeks to educate the imagination by offering innovative creative writing programs for students and teachers, and by providing a variety of publications and resources to support learning through the literary arts. —T&W Mission Statement In spring 1995, author, activist, and T&W co-founder Grace Paley spoke…
FROM THE ARCHIVE Ibi Zoboi From:Teachers & Writers Magazine(Fall 2013, Volume 45, Number 1) The ninth-grade students at STAR (Science Technology and Research) Academy in Brooklyn, New York, are all talking at once. There’s nothing out of the ordinary here, of course. But they are not having side conversations as I wrap up…
STUDENT WRITING (From Happy Days and Musical Ways/Dias Felices and Maneras Musicales, a bi-lingual anthology of writing) The Carr Family We are from water and mountains We are from potlucks and sea air We are from golf carts with burning rubber We are from roads back and forth We are from manatees splashing…