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How I Learned to Write

Throughout my early years of schooling, I resented the daily “independent reading” homework that my teachers would relentlessly shove down my throat. I saw it as an irrational waste of a half hour that I could’ve spent shooting hoops on the driveway, or chasing my dreams of becoming a…

The Challenges of Creating Combined Activity Packs

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…

Fall Internship in Review

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…

Quill.org’s Mission

Quill.org provides free online tools to help low-income students become sharp writers. Our mission is to help the 30…

What I Learned from Intercom

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…