Teaching Writing is designed for K-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and other school-based educators. Building on the research of Professor Emerita Maria Brisk, the workshop ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

This paper discusses the teaching of writing within the competing and often contradictory spaces of high-stakes testing and the practices and priorities around writing pedagogy in diverse school ...

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A bill signed by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday makes cursive instruction mandatory ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

The Journal of Education, Vol. 191, No. 1, RESEARCHERS/THEORISTS/PRACTITIONERS IN COLLABORATION (2010/2011), pp. 1-12 (12 pages) The current study examines the ...

More than 40 percent of elementary schools in North Carolina are providing students with weekly lessons in cursive writing, according to a new report by the state education board. The board approved ...

The word “mediocre” isn’t in Sarah O’Brien’s vocabulary. O’Brien, a fifth-grade teacher at Northern Elementary School near here, was dismayed to learn that the school’s fifth-grade students scored 40 ...

All it takes is a few semesters to complete UW’s graduate certificate in Teaching Elementary School.* If you hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college or university, you qualify to ...

Kennedy Center Teaching Artist Stuart Stotts recently visited Ring Elementary School where he taught students to write lyrics. Stotts used music, lyric writing and movement to engage and motivate ...