Writing Archives

Posted March 8, 2023

Projects, essays, and long-term assignments can easily turn into a mess when students lack the executive function strategies they need to plan...

Posted September 28, 2022

This student-authored post is part of a series that highlights student perspectives around learning and executive function in the classroom...

Posted August 31, 2022

In a recent article from Harvard’s “Usable Knowledge,” the authors point out that project-based learning is not worthwhile if...

Posted March 27, 2018

As a student with dyslexia, spelling was the bane of my existence. (Honestly, I still am a terrible speller!) Fortunately, there are lots of...

Posted November 30, 2017

When I was in school, writing papers was incredibly difficult. The only way I could manage was by dictating what I wanted to write to my mother. I...

Posted March 28, 2017

The Oxford comma is just one more instance of why mastering reading and writing can be challenging for students with learning differences such as...

Posted February 23, 2017

When people discuss dyslexia, they mostly talk about difficulty with reading. However, writing can be just as challenging for a person with...