Quill.org provides free online tools to help low-income students become sharp writers. Our mission is to help the 30…
Dealing with Intercom is a lesson on dealing with people. Let me explain.
Each day we come in, we spend the first hour helping teachers with issues they might be having with Quill. We communicate with them through a platform called Intercom, which…
Quill has over 20 activity packs and over 200 additional activities available to teachers. The activities range in topic, grade level, and amount of instruction. In the activity packs, the students ideally can practice concepts one by one…
“No one is as deaf as the man who does not listen” (proverb).
Gartner, a tech advisory firm, highlighted “social listening” as one of the top ten strategic technologies for education in 2016. Working in an edtech startup, I have learned to appreciate the…
Though at first glance sentence combining appears to be based on knowledge of how to manipulate the syntactical structure of a sentence, the linguistic understanding of the elements required for strong sentence combining proves to “help writers who produce…
I started my internship at Quill in the beginning of September. As an engineering major and child development minor, I had studied tons of research on learning to read and write, but had never created content myself. Now three months in, I have created content from fragments to…
