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How to Save Time During Back to School with ChatGPT
The back-to-school season is exciting, but it’s also one of the busiest times of the year for teachers. Between setting up your classroom, planning lessons, meeting families, and getting to know your students, it can feel like there…
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How to Make a Rubric Using ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a great tool for teachers to use to help you save time. In my experience, crafting a rubric from scratch can sometimes be time-consuming and challenging. By using AI tools like ChatGPT, creating rubrics has never…
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How to Make Your College Essay Stand Out (Without Sounding Like Everyone Else)
If you’ve ever worried that your college essay sounds like a thousand others, you’re not alone. With thousands of students applying to the same schools, often with similar GPAs, test scores, and extracurriculars, your personal essay is one…
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How to Write the Common App Essay for Prompt #3 in 2025
If you’re applying to college, one of the most insightful questions on the Common Application is Prompt #3: Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome? This…
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Why You Shouldn’t Use ChatGPT to Write Your College Application Essays (And How to Use It the Right Way)
If you’re a high school student applying to college, chances are you’ve heard about using AI tools like ChatGPT to help with your college application essays. Maybe you’ve even tried typing in: “Write me a Common App essay…
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How to Write the Common App Essay for Prompt #2 in 2025
If you’re applying to college, one of the most insightful questions on the Common Application is Prompt #2: The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time when you faced…
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How to Write the Common App Essay for Prompt #1 in 2025
If you’re applying to college, one of the most popular essay questions on the Common Application is Prompt #1: Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be…
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Your Go-To Guide to the Common Application Essay in 2025
If you’re getting ready to apply to college, chances are you’ll be filling out the Common Application (Did you know it’s used by over 1,000 colleges across the U.S.?!). One of the most important parts is the Common…
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Introducing Students to Design Thinking Using a Design Sprint
Design Thinking is a creative problem-solving framework that can be used to spark innovation and develop innovative solutions. Design sprints are a great way to introduce students to Design Thinking through a hands-on experience. Originally popularized by Google…
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Using Design Thinking to Teach Entrepreneurship in the Classroom
Entrepreneurship education equips students with skills and knowledge to help them thrive in today’s dynamic world — like creativity, resilience, critical thinking, flexibility, and ethical and social responsibility. By developing an entrepreneurial mindset, many students will feel empowered…
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