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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 Details, Summaries and more About Our Writing Contests
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FREE Classroom Poster
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Introduction to Student Blogging
- Get the 101 on blogging
- Digital literacy - why blogging is important for the classroom
- View Blogging Lesson Plans
- Blogging Basics lesson plan
- Values & Beliefs lesson plan
- Reflection & Wisdom lesson plan
- Life stage interview lesson plan
- Food, Health & Writing lesson plan
- Heroes lesson plan
- Teen stress lesson plan
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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
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Teen Trends
- Over 80,000 teenagers and college students have visited StageofLife.com to either read or submit an essay
- View our contest summary report on teen tends
- Get links to thousands of our student essays - grouped by topic
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Writing Workshops and Seminars for Teenagers
- Recommended writing workshops and seminars for teens
- Must visit websites that provide writing opportunities for students or instruction benefits for Language Arts teachers
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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
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How Would Students Improve Education?
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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
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Teacher Appreciation
- View over 180 positive essays written by teens about their teachers
- Read the five positive relationship benefits good teachers bring to their students
- Get the latest trends on teens and how they communicate
- View Teacher Appreciation page
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Teens 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
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Inspirational Videos
- Watch our collection of inspirational videos sourced from YouTube
- After watching the videos, ask your students blog on StageofLife.com about how they intend to change the world or be a positive change in the world.
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Digital Literacy - Using Blogs in the Classroom
- Hear from our panel of experts who use blogging in the classroom
- Get tips on how to increase your students' digital literacy by incorporating technology into the classroom
- View Digital Literacy experts
- View latest trends on Teen Communication
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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
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Why Educators Use Stage of Life®
- Six Reasons Educators Use StageofLife.com in the Classroom...
- Free
- Unlimited essay storage
- Interactive blog platform
- It's about the writing
- Customized for teachers
- Real World writing prompts
- View our Educational Resources Overview
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Authors & Celebrities
- Authors and Celebrities chime in to us with advice for teen writers
- Susan Woolridge, author of Poemcrazy
- Michael Patrick Walker, songwriter and co-author of "Alter Boyz"
- James Kristofic, author of Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
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Poem Writing Tips
- Tips for writing poetry from author of Poemcrazy, Susan Wooldridge
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