Live, online programs in writing, oral history remix, pedagogy, and narrative inquiry—plus one-on-one writing support. The Ed Factory offers several forms of inquiry into lived experience through language, listening, and collaborative study.
Join a workshop or seminar, or book individual support.
Listen Teach Write Revise Create
A writing studio for educators using narrative practice to examine experience, perception, and public life through sustained writing and shared inquiry.
WRITE TEACHERS.
SOCIAL POETICS.
Seasonal poetry studios exploring language as a public practice, where writing engages lived experience, social conditions, and collective life through documentary poetics, led by writer Mark Nowak.
EDUCATION THEORY & PEDAGOGY SEMINARS.
Small-group seminars exploring teaching and learning as relational, structural, ethical, and aesthetic practices shaped by history, power, and institutions.
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One-To-ONE WRITING SUPPORT.
Writing as a site of thinking — individual support for projects, applications, and publications grounded in inquiry through language.
NARRATIVE INQUIRY.
An interpretive practice using dialogue and writing to examine lived experience within changing educational, professional, and civic conditions, supporting recognition and practical next steps across educational, professional, creative, and personal paths.
THE TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
A fellowship-based institute for educators engaging ideas, arts, and public scholarship to rethink teaching as an intellectual and civic practice grounded in lived experience.