Michael Hicks has been teaching in Los Angeles inner-city schools since 1993, and writing instruction has always been his passion. Hicks, along with co-founder and programmer, Steve Torres created essaypop, an interactive, cloud-based writing platform, because they wanted to simplify and demystify academic writing for kids.
According to Hicks, “Students need a predictable and repeatable structure when they approach writing, and with essaypop, I think we’ve achieved that. But engagement and interactivity also need to be part of the process. Writing should be fun, and learning communities should be places where peer-to-peer mentorship happens. Our primary objective is to create great writers who become great coaches. We also want to make life as easy as possible for teachers.”
These notions have become the foundational groundwork for essaypop’s technologies and products and are responsible for the platform’s meteoric growth in the last year. Essaypop has signed up more than 100,000 students and teachers since it went live in March 2020.
To set up a meeting or webinar with Michael Hicks drop us a message at mike@essaypop.com
The essaypop platform is supported by three essential pillars
The frame-writing system is an intuitive and structured writing method that breaks essays into their constituent elements so that student writers can approach academic writing from the ground up. It’s literally the cure for writer's block.
The Hive is a social, interactive environment where students write, collaborate, and give and receive feedback from the teacher and their peers in real-time.
The lesson library provides users with a comprehensive collection of pre-made lessons that enhance a teacher's repertoire.
The assessment tool cuts teacher assessment time by 75% and yields critical student growth metrics.