Support multilingual learners in civil discourse with four classroom-ready shifts—sentence stems, thinking time, translanguaging, and more.

20 lessons to help you start off choice reading on the right foot plus 8 regular rhythms and routines for the entire school year!

Read for pleasure. Read for your classroom.

Try elaborative interrogation and analogy-crafting — two elaboration strategies that help students connect new content to what they already know.

Scaffold primary source analysis for multilingual learners without lowering rigor — try the Source Snapshot routine: See It, Name It, Prove It.

Discover how found poems can enhance students' higher-order thinking skills by reimagining and rearranging original content.

Imagine lilyPD courses as current New York Times bestsellers for summer reading and summer professional learning!

Learn a quick strategy to promote thoughtful, equitable discussion among students when you need a break from whole-class discussion.

5 Ways to Weave lilyPD into Your School’s PD Ecosystem As a school leader, you already know the challenge: professional development time is precious, schedules are packed, and the needs of your teache...

Whether used in classrooms or across the district, this source will provide a path to successful writing instruction in content areas like mathematics, science, and history. Educators using this guide...

What can we say to students when they turn in writing that was clearly manufactured by AI?

Featuring a new platform and free PD all summer long!

March 25, 2025 The college entrance essay: Should we teach it or shouldn’t we?  This year, the guidance department of our high school, New Directions Secondary School in the Bronx, NY, asked m…

A summer full of FREE PD for Moving Writers Community Members!

Adobe Stock Photo-License held by Kelly E. Tumy Greetings this Monday morning. It’s March—the month of Spring Breaks—and teachers could not be looking forward to anything more after some long month…

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As a teacher of writing during the last two years, you have probably experienced what Brett Vogelsinger describes as "a tilt-a-whirl of emotions" surrounding artificial intelligence as you grapple wit...

Our dear Brett Vogelsinger has a NEW BOOK coming to the world in 2025 — all about using not fighting AI in our writing instruction. He’s hosting a new live (and recorded) webinar next m…

I’ve been working on an 11-page digital primer to begin changing the way we think about research-writing. No more semester-long research papers, rife with inauthentic, teacher-driven rules an…

New on #TheEdCollab Blog! "And besides, let’s face it--we educators are generally more accepting of “copying” when it suits our own instructional needs, are we not? For example, there is no actual for...

Image via: Never Alone, Upper One Games. I’ve been thinking about hope lately. It’s winter here in New York City. There are certain things about the season here that feel hopeful: the s…

Teenagers and educators weigh in on a recent question from The Ethicist.

One of the most common questions I get asked when I speak with teachers is “Okay, but how do you teach grammar?” And this mini-course is my answer to that! Yes, I use mentor texts to te…

In this session, Rebekah will share how teachers can fold grammar, conventions, and usage instruction into writing units authentically by anchoring their teaching in mentor texts. Using an inquiry app...