Teacher Appreciation

Stage of Life wants to help teachers and students.  Recently, Stage of Life created several education pages for teachers on the site.  Check our new educational resources.

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Writing Prompts

• Writing prompts deal with real-world issues important to teens
• Each prompt came from previous Stage of Life national student essay contests
• Mentor texts, lesson plans and summary pages are provided
• View Writing Prompts

How Would Teens Improve Education?

• Teens answered, "How would you improve your school?"
• Five themes emerged from the student education essays
• View How Teens Would Improve Education

Free Goal Setting Worksheet

• Help your students set goals
• Our Stage of Life Goal Setting Worksheet can be used as an in-class activity or as a take-home assignment
• Educators are encouraged to use it themselves as a personal or professional tool too
• View Goal Setting Worksheet

Making the World a Better Place

• Utilize our "Making the World a Better Place" writing prompt to get students thinking and writing about how they can change the world and make a difference
• Read past student essays about making the world a better place
• Ask your class to explore the list of student-nominated, making a difference organizations by our teen bloggers and writers
• View Making the World a Better Place

Health and Writing

• Read about the positive health effects of blogging and writing
• Help your students reduce teen stress through journaling, blogging or writing
• View Writing is Healthy

Why Educators Use Us

• Six Reasons Educators Use StageofLife.com in the Classroom...
  1. Free
  2. Unlimited space for student essay storage
  3. Interactive
  4. All about the writing
  5. Customized
  6. Real World
• View our Educational Resources Overview

Student Writing Contest

• Encourage your students to enter our free, monthly national writing contest for high school students and college students.
• Our essay winners have received mentions by the media including TIME.com, Mint Education, and more.
• Essay contest topics deal with real-world issues.
• Great practice for AP Test, SAT test, college essay writing, and more.
• View Writing Contest 

Introduction to Student Blogging

• Get the 101 on blogging
• Digital literacy - why blogging is important for the classroom
• View Blogging Lesson Plans
1. Blogging Basics lesson plan
2. Values & Beliefs lesson plan
3. Reflection & Wisdom lesson plan
4. Life stage interview lesson plan
5. Food, Health & Writing lesson plan
6. Heroes lesson plan
7. Teen stress lesson plan

Mentor Texts

• Use our past student essay winners as examples of Mentor Texts
• Our teen writing winners provide excellent essay examples of authentic voice and utilizing a stylistic point of view
• Read past writing contest winners and finalists by visiting our Teen Trends reports
• View Mentor Texts

Writing Resources

• Recommended writing workshops and seminars
• Top college rankings for programs in English, Creative Writing and Journalism
• Must visit websites that provide amazing writing opportunities for students or instruction benefit for Language Arts teachers
• View Writing Resources

Since the beginning of our teacher campaign we have sent hundreds of posters to teachers across the country.