Coaching from artificial intelligence chatbots, personalized and accessible at any time, is now shaping how some students write.

Having students move beyond descriptive paragraphs and five-paragraph essays can help improve their ability to write—and their love of doing it.

With frequent modeling, teachers can guide their students to work through the writing process with confidence.

The classic mode of lecturing is pretty passive, with the teacher on the stage and delivering content and the students sitting and, hopefully, listening,” Jackson says. His approach, on the other hand ...