This update on the old-school strategy of using index cards to collect textual evidence helps students slow down and focus on ...

My life has changed so much since my time as a Voices of Change fellow during the 2023 school year. As I wrote in my final essay of the fellowship, the beautiful, imperfect school I loved and helped ...

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Mich., and the author of Flash Feedback: Responding to Student Writing Better and Faster – Without Burning Out (published by Corwin Press). His ...

Feedback is hugely important. If I don't spend long on a piece, I often overlook small typos or grammatical issues. I don't craft my words quite as carefully as I could, and I tend to repeat myself.

It was a good plan. It was a simple plan. In fact, the plan was to simplify. I would refine my writing process to the essentials: pen and paper. Faced with two impending deadlines for a dissertation ...

In early 2021, I finally snagged my lifelong Holy Grail: a non-fiction book deal. I was a science reporter covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and I felt there was no more meaningful thing I could do than ...

A single sentence from a faculty mentor cut deeper than I expected—because it wasn’t the first time my voice had been questioned. I spent decades believing I was not good enough to become a writer.

My next book, A Living Remedy, will be out in April. Last month, when I shared designer Vivian Lowe’s gorgeous cover for it and began begging for preorders (as writers must), it felt like the ...