Write for the Wayfinder Blog!
future-ready PreK-12 education
The Wayfinder blog serves to educate our audience on best practices, recent developments, and professional insights on human skill instruction and the state of future-ready PreK-12 education.
If you’re an educator, administrator, counselor, parent of a PreK-12 student, or even a student yourself, we’d love to hear from you!
Content, Audience + Perspective
Our audience primarily includes education administrators and leaders, counselors, and classroom educators. We recognize that some parents and families of PreK-12 students might also read, so we avoid jargon when possible and always clearly define the many specific terms, concepts, and acronyms common in the education field.
The Wayfinder blog covers a broad range of topics related to the future-ready human skills today’s PreK-12 students need to thrive in school, career, and life. When submitting to us, you’re encouraged to draw on your professional and/or personal experiences with these topics. We’re open to most related insights, findings, and opinions within and tangential to the following themes:
- The non-academic skills today’s students need to succeed and how educators can better teach and assess them
- Ways belonging and purpose impact student outcomes
- Best practices for promoting student well-being in classrooms across campus
- Digital literacy, citizenship, and discernment, including the impact of AI and cellphone restrictions on teaching and learning
- Teaching financial literacy and other life skills in PreK-12
- Special considerations for the mental, social, and emotional development of student athletes
- Family engagement strategies
- Ideas, tips, and success stories about improving student attendance and reducing chronic absenteeism
- Whole-student education, including best practices for MTSS + counseling interventions to help create the conditions for student thriving
Writing Guidelines
Please cite recent, pertinent research from research journals, white papers, and established news sources to support claims made in your submission. Hyperlink to your sources directly rather than using in-text citations, footnotes, etc. Feel free to link to relevant, evidence-based resources as well, should they support further exploration of the topic your blog explores.
Wayfinder is interested in your original ideas, not AI summations. Submissions will be checked for evidence of AI use and plagiarism. Those found to include false, misleading, or unoriginal information will be rejected.
Please follow MLA style guidelines for writing conventions. Aim for a length of approximately 1200-1600 words, but prioritize concision and clarity over a specific length. Please note that, if your submission is selected, you will work with Wayfinder's editorial team as needed before your blog is published. All submissions will be edited to adhere to Wayfinder’s internal style guide prior to publication.
How to Submit
Please fill out all required fields in this form. Please make sure that your pitch includes:
- A summary and the driving message or argument of your piece
- Highlights of the major points you will speak to
- Notes about any major research or recent news that your piece draws on
Feel free to write out a summary or use bulleted text in your pitch. You may upload a full draft as a file or Google Doc if you have one. While including a draft doesn’t change the likelihood of acceptance, it can help us publish your piece more quickly.
After You Submit
All submissions will be reviewed by the Wayfinder team. You will receive an email from us within approximately two weeks if we decide to move forward with your draft. Wayfinder’s Marketing Content + PR Manager will work with you to revise your draft to ready it for publication.
We look forward to working with you!