The need to write
We feel for our students.
A pandemic derailed them, social media distractions swirl around them, and ChatGPT tempts them at every corner. It’s no wonder so many students struggle to sit down, focus, and write.
Why it’s so hard to improve at writing
Teachers try to give useful feedback, but don’t have time for the personalized attention students need. Conventional homework tutors push students through their assignments, but often make them more dependent on outside help and less confident in their own abilities.
But there’s no escaping writing.
As many high schools turn to exclusively in-class essays, students have nowhere to hide if their writing is behind. And yes, even with with AI, writing—and the deep thinking that it brings about—will remain a foundational life skill that elevates careers.
The Insight Writing approach
The challenge, as we see it
Writing forces us to juggle a bunch of difficult conceptual processes. When a 10th grader writes an English essay, they have to interpret a complex text, extract thoughtful insights, find rich text to support them, organize distinct ideas across and within paragraphs, express it all in sentences the reader can follow, and so on.
Isolate the muscles
Our strategy is to isolate the fundamentals of writing, then go deep on them. We give personalized exercises, reframe hard concepts in more relatable ways, and give students space to practice and self-assess. While we’re happy to support schoolwork, we don’t just show up and react to whatever is on a student’s plate; instead, we proactively plan lessons tuned to exactly what we think your child needs.
In short:
We help students “get” writing in a whole new way.
Our fast-changing world
The age of AI
It’s a weird time for writing. Powerful new technologies promise to do it for us. And some of us have found AI useful in our own work. So why make our kids sweat over something super-hard if it’s about to become obsolete?
The secret power of writing
Writing teaches kids to think. We’ve spent thousands of hours working with students as they take their half-formed thoughts and struggle to write them down. As they learn to organize and clarify their ideas on the page, their critical thinking gets sharper and deeper too. It’s what we mean by the “insight” in our name.
Writing + thinking = the competitive edge
If your kids have the capacity for deep original thought, they will have a distinct advantage in a fast-changing future. Even with AI helping, we will all need rich, human intelligence driving the process. That’s what we at Insight Writing are here to help them build.