When Your Child Hates Writing: Alternative Approaches

We did an essay workshop...broke down each component of writing an essay for 10th graders. Told them it would be challenging but they need to be strong and get through it. Set timers so they had no choice but to either stare at the blank paper or attempt to write. I had 3 kids br

I received an email from a parent (who is also a teacher) complaining that the reading I assigned was at too high a lexile level for her son. I replied that unfortunately, Thomas Jefferson didn’t consider lexile levels when writing the Declaration of Independence.

Okay, folks, sorry for the novel, but I need some help here. I’m a teacher, and yet I am at a loss as to how to handle this situation with my daughter’s teacher without sounding like an insufferable asshole. (Maybe I am an asshole?) Here’s the background: I have a bio degree and

Got long email from the mom of a student who plagiarized their entire research paper. The sections that aren’t exact copy/paste matches from easily Google-able sites are fully AI generated. I have checked on three different plagiarism detectors. The parent is arguing that their s

So I teach 9th grade English and at the start of the year the big panic was AI. Parents emailing, kids joking that "ChatGPT wrote this, haha". Then our district quietly added an AI checker inside the LMS. Nobody really explained how it works, we just got a slide saying "use this

What are some of the small things that you can't believe a student never learned? Things that make you check your facial expression, while you stare incredulously at them thinking "WTF?" Some examples: What an Index or glossary is, how to find page numbers, tying shoelaces, readi