In the high-stakes world of college admissions, your application essay is your superpower. While grades and test scores show your accomplishments, your essay is the one place you can speak directly to ...

At the start of a new year, many people set goals to work toward. We asked our staff at the HCWE and our writing consultants what strategies they use to work toward their writing goals. Our aim in ...

I am studying to become an English teacher, and as part of my single-subject credential program, I am taking a course on teaching English language learners. A reading this week, from Lynne T.

Teachers can use these ideas to coach students on how to stay focused and deepen their learning outside of whole group ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...

It’s no secret that judges in North Carolina’s state and federal appellate courts don’t reach for printed briefs much anymore (the Chief Judge of the Fourth Circuit, Albert Diaz, has said that he and ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Today we are fortunate enough ...