Contemplative Learning
Teach to the Text provides writing courses, educational products, consulting and training services to help students read deeply, think critically, and write elegantly through direct engagement with a text. We serve private schools, hybrids, homeschools and co-ops.
Writing courses, camps, and educational products for middle school and high school students, with training and mentorship for their teachers and parents.
Home of The 12-Paper Plunge.
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We provide turnkey writing instruction, professional development training, organizational frameworks, and implementation services to help your high school students write more, write better.
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We provide workshops, training, and mentoring services that help parents become their child’s best writing coach or advocate.
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We provide short camps, digital products, and unit studies that help you supplement your children’s language arts education.
See offerings for supplemental education
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We provide live online courses of various duration for middle school, high school, and college students, as well as self-paced unit studies.
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We provide workshops, training, and mentorship for professional development.
NOTE: Homeschool families enrolled in California charter schools, click here for nonsectarian live courses.
Featured Program
Take the 12-Paper Plunge!
The 12-Paper Plunge is a curriculum-free writing and thinking program for high school students that integrates writing with the humanities and aims to have high school students writing at a college level by the end of a 12-paper cycle.
It is founded on three tenets:
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Writing is thinking.
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Therefore, writing is best taught alongside the humanities at the high school level.
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If you want students to show insight in their papers, you have to give them something deep to see into.
Meet Ms. Finnigan
My Company Values
Personalism • Curiosity • Appreciation • Reflection • Fun
learn more: read my bio
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Book a call with me to explore opportunities to work together:
“Ms. Finnigan, I…reminisced on that year in Ancient Greek Literature [2012-13]. I will truly never forget going into your class at 13 years old hating writing and emerging saying that it is one of my favorite things. Fast forward 13 years later, and I now hold an English degree from Holy Cross, am about to embark on a part-time Master's in Public Policy at Georgetown, and I am frequently told at work that my greatest strengths are writing and synthesizing information -- something I credit you for teaching me how to do. .”
— Paige C., former student, 2012-13
