During her short life, 12-year-old Farah Esleem has accumulated a long list of titles: war victim, dogged student, proud owner of a prosthetic, aspiring pediatrician. Now, thanks to a Detroit company, ...

The key is making it easy and lowering your standards dramatically.

Some children enjoy spending hours on end writing paragraphs and stories, but others absolutely dread it.‎ They may have great ideas but struggle to express them on paper. Yet as students move through ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...

All stories are about transformation, even the ones that aren’t. The passage of time inevitably brings about transformations big and small, obvious and invisible. As a writer, I seek out change in my ...