by Englist | Oct 29, 2026 | Englist blog
Years ago CommonWealth Magazine in Taiwan was generous enough to publish a piece I wrote about how Taiwan needs more critical thinking in education. The gist of the piece: “Critical thinking is important and people are going to need it more in the future than they do...
by Englist | Oct 7, 2026 | Englist blog
One of the best parts of being a teacher is getting to read books with students. I have read all of these books many times now, but every time I read a novel with a class it’s like reading it for the first time. I always remember something I forgot, find something I...
by Englist | Sep 9, 2026 | Englist blog
One of the best parts about working at Englist is being able to write our own textbooks and develop our own curricula. We base our materials on philosophies and techniques that we’ve read about and what we know students need in our own classrooms. This year we issued...
by Englist | Nov 19, 2022 | Academic Writing, Englist blog, College Applications
In quality language arts and social studies classes, students are tasked with learning about and critically engaging issues of social justice as a means of teaching participatory democratic citizenship. Topics introduced can include race, socioeconomic class, gender,...
