The YES! Magazine article, “Growing Up in a Kenyan Slum Taught Me the Real Value of Stuff,” by Simon Okelo, is a story about learning to live with less in the midst of abundance. Students will use ...

Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared on The Character Tree’s blog. When we were just a couple weeks into distance learning, I started to really miss writing workshop time. Over ...

In the first five years of teaching, writing lesson plans was absolutely necessary for me. Meticulously I planned the period, minute to minute insuring that everything was covered... just in case.

Past winners of our student contests share their best writing moves. By Natalie Proulx How to Teach With the Art and Artifacts in Our New Book, ‘Coming of Age in 2020’ Work by teenagers — photos, ...

Love them or hate them, scary stories are part of the human experience. In the United States, we celebrate Halloween today, but every other country has version of their own spooky traditions. And part ...