Teach Us What We Need
This essay, by Norah Rami, age 17, from Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas, is one of the Top 10 winners of The Learning Network’s Eighth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 11,202 entries. You can find the work of all the winners and runners-up here.Teach Us What We NeedMy one year…
How to Teach With the Art and Artifacts in Our New Book,‘Coming of Age...
Work by teenagers — photos, comics, diary entries, charts, texts, recipes and rants — tells the story of an unforgettable year.
Live Webinar: Teach Profile Writing With The New York Times
Register for the live webinar on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m. Eastern.How can writing profiles of local community members teach students useful skills like researching, asking effective questions, listening, note-taking, fact-checking, storytelling, connecting with experts and, of course, writing and editing with clarity, voice and style?In this webinar, we will introduce our brand-new Profile…
Teach With These 13 Times Columns
In this special series of lessons, we offer ways to use various New York Times columns as models for student writing and creating.
8 Ways to Teach and Learn About Hip-Hop
Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new art form to a culture-defining superpower. At first dismissed as a fad, often derided as a nuisance or a menace, hip-hop has become a multibillion-dollar industry and a global juggernaut — woven into nearly every corner of American life. Jon Caramanica, a New York Times music…
Film Club: ‘What the Pandemic Can Teach Us About Endings’
Do you think we will ever feel like the pandemic is really over? Or, do we need to rethink our need for Hollywood endings?
8 Webinars on How to Teach Writing With The New York Times
Our library of writing webinars explores how to teach the kinds of real-world writing found in newspapers, including editorials, reviews, profiles, personal narratives and more.
Teach the Super Bowl: Ideas for Subjects Across the Curriculum
The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles will face off in Super Bowl LIX, a rematch from two seasons ago, on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The game is expected to be watched by more than 120 million people and features many intriguing storylines as the Chiefs, led by superstar quarterback…
28 Ways to Teach and Learn About Poetry With The New York Times
“Like virtually everything else in the Trump era, poetry has gotten sharply political these days,” wrote The Times in 2017. The article continues:Writers are responding to this turbulent moment in the country’s history with a tsunami of poems that address issues like immigration, global warming, the Syrian refugee crisis, institutionalized racism, equal rights for transgender…
Teach Writing With The New York Times: Our 2024-25 Curriculum
Our nine writing units are based on real-world features like reviews, photo essays, narratives, podcasts and more.
