The illusion of writing is happening in classrooms across the country, and you know the type I’m talking about: those genre-based units of study where students write a personal narrative or research a topic of their choice, writing an informational piece, or constructing an argument.
Close your eyes for just a moment, and imagine a classroom, neither bound by workbooks nor confined by traditional classroom success metrics. This classroom no longer requires learners to compliantly fill in blank boxes or empty lines, seeking only correct answers; instead this classroom environment
Teachers around the country are faced with a pervasive issue: students can’t write in their classrooms. When tasked with what most would believe to be a simple task such as responding to an open-ended prompt, students face myriad challenges from forming an idea to writing