YES! Magazine

“Standing Up for Our Neighbors” Student Writing Lesson

Are you willing and brave enough to stand up against injustice? Describe what you would do, and how your actions might make a difference. Students will read and respond to Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz’s ...
YES! Magazine

“Honoring Your Roots” Student Writing Lesson

How do you honor your roots and identity? How connected are you to all of these parts? Students will read and respond to the YES! article “Native and European–How do I Honor All Parts of Myself?” by ...
Inside Higher Ed

Rethinking Responding to Student Writing

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across the ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

What Critics of Student Writing Get Wrong

It’s easy to lament student writing abilities. Alarmist complaints can be regularly read in The Chronicle, popular journalism, and books. It’s easy for teachers to take their frustration with a few ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

Student Spotlight: Writing Commons consultant helps other students improve writing skills

Claudia Alant, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student from Niskayuna, N.Y., has worked for the Writing Commons for five semesters. Since she was in high school, Alant has participated in ...
Business Wire

NoRedInk Rolls Out Benchmarking Solution to Help Schools Track Student Writing Growth

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NoRedInk, a provider of adaptive online writing curriculum used in more than 60 percent of U.S. school districts, now offers a powerful way for educators to measure ...
Inside Higher Ed

Meaningful Responses to Student Writing

Alexandra (AJ) Gold is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Boston University. Follow her on Twitter or check out her website. It’s that time of year again: temperatures are climbing, flowers are blooming, ...
PBS

Video Transcript: Writing

Teacher: I want you to write things that are true and accurate about the metric system that you know. [cut to Max, a sixth grade student, in interview with Dr. Mel Levine] Student: Ah, I'll remember ...
The Desert Sun

Better writing instruction comes from studying student work more closely

An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ...
Miami University

Writing Student Learning Outcomes

Student learning outcomes (SLOs) allow us to determine whether students are reaching the goals and objectives that we want them to achieve. They are expressed as specific statements describing the ...
Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Eugenia Mora-Flores, Julia G. Thompson, Karen Sher, Bret Gosselin, Dr. Vicky Giouroukakis, and ...