Serious Fun. Proven Outcomes. Improve literacy, comprehension, and critical thinking by engaging students in making comics.

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joined June 2008
🍂 What does fall look, sound, and feel like? Have students capture the season in their own words and visuals using Pixton's Fall Content Pack. Through multimodal writing, students combine settings, characters, expressions, and dialogue to develop descriptive writing skills and communicate their ideas. 🍁 Explore the Fall Content Pack: hubs.la/Q04zGvWc0 #Pixton #MultimodalWriting #ELA #DescriptiveWriting
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New school year. New ways to show what you know. 📚🎬 With Pixton’s new Book and Storyboard formats, students have even more ways to write, organize ideas, and demonstrate understanding across the curriculum. Which format will your students try first? Explore the new formats today! #BackToSchool #StudentWriting #TeachingIdeas #Pixton
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As you pack up your classroom for the summer, what's one moment from this school year you'll never forget? Thank you for everything you do. Wishing all educators a wonderful summer break. ☀️
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They wrote stories. Created comics. Shared ideas. Solved problems. Now it's time to celebrate. 🎓 Reward students with personalized Pixton Graduation Certificates featuring their own avatar. A fun way to recognize a year of creativity and growth. Find them in your group under the "Printables" tab. Just click print! Because every superhero deserves a graduation certificate. #pixton #classroomactivities #ela #teachersofinstagram #graduation
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Whether reflecting on a text, a concept, or a year of learning, this activity helps students make their thinking visible while building reflection, writing, and critical thinking skills. Explore the lesson idea: hubs.la/Q04ltwV50 #teachersofinstagram #classroomactivities #ELA #grade4teacher #Literacy #Pixton
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Pixton has earned the Common Sense Privacy Seal, recognizing our commitment to protecting student and educator data. We believe great learning tools should also be trusted learning tools. Read the report at Common Sense: hubs.la/Q04kH74L0
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Can creating comics help students understand Shakespeare? A university study found that students who created comics with Pixton achieved higher academic outcomes and developed more positive attitudes toward learning Shakespearean drama than students taught with traditional methods. When students transform complex texts into visual stories, they don't just read the material—they make meaning from it. #Shakespeare #ELA #classroomactivities #Pixton
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Help students end the year on a positive note. 🌟 In this reflective comic activity, students celebrate their accomplishments, recognize their growth, and practice self-expression by creating a comic about what makes them proud. A meaningful writing activity that builds confidence while helping students reflect on how far they’ve come. Explore the lesson: hubs.la/Q04jG-zn0 #EndOfYear #CreativeWriting #ELA #SEL #TeachingIdeas #Pixton
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End the year with meaningful reflection ⛰️ In this creative comic activity, students use a mountain metaphor to reflect on their year’s peaks, pits, challenges, growth, and what they see ahead on the horizon. A powerful end-of-year writing activity that builds storytelling, self-expression, and classroom connection. Try it tomorrow: hubs.la/Q04jd0nM0 #EndOfYear #CreativeWriting #SEL #ELA #TeachingIdeas #Pixton
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Bring summer storytelling into your classroom ☀️. Students can create comics about vacations, outdoor adventures, summer goals, and favorite memories while building creativity, descriptive writing, and communication skills. 🌴📚 Explore the Summer Content Pack: hubs.la/Q04j6fm60 #ELA #CreativeWriting #ComicsInTheClassroom #Pixton
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As the school year winds down, give students a chance to reflect on the moments, people, and experiences that mattered most. With this Gratitude Journal lesson idea, students create personal comics that build self-expression, reflection, and writing skills – all while ending the year on a meaningful note. A simple, creative end-of-year project students will actually enjoy making. Explore the lesson idea: hubs.la/Q04hSVFf0 #EndOfSchoolYear #CreativeWriting #TeachingIdeas
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New research continues to validate what educators see every day in the classroom: when students create with comics, engagement and learning grow. 📚✨ A 2025 study found that students using Pixton showed significantly higher motivation and dramatically stronger descriptive writing performance compared to conventional instruction. #EdTech #Education #WritingSkills #Literacy #StudentEngagement #Pixton
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Oops!… We did it again. We’re honored to be recognized by the American Association of School Librarians as one of the Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning for 2026. 🎉 To the teachers and librarians who use Pixton every day to spark creativity, critical thinking, and storytelling, thank you. #AASL #EdTech #SchoolLibraries #Teachers #Literacy #StudentVoice #Librarians #CreativeWriting #Pixton
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✨Give Every Student a Way to Show What They Believe! We’re heading to #NCEA2026 in Minneapolis! 🗓️April 7 – 9, 2026 | 📍Booth 216 See how Pixton can help students transform their beliefs into vibrant comic stories. #Pixton #EdTech #CatholicEd #NCEA #Minneapolis
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See you at TESOL 2026! Pixton will be in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 24–27 at Booth 523. Come visit us to explore how comics can support language development, student voice, and creative learning in every classroom. We can’t wait to meet you! #TESOL26 #TESOL #EdTech #ELL #ESL #LanguageLearning #Pixton
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Pixton is exhibiting at VSLA March 1–4! 📚 Come see how comics can support literacy learning—comprehension, vocabulary, and student voice. Find us at Booth 42. 👋 #VSLA2026 #Literacy #EdTech
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I love making my personalized tumblers each year for my students. The word clouds, are all adjectives their peers wrote about them. I use @Pixton for our class photo, that special touch. Each is filled with cocoa, Hershey kisses and camdy cane spoon. #ClassroomVibes
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The Ells in @MsJess218 are excited about transforming their personal narrative writing into a digital comic strip using @Pixton. Developing expressive 😀☺️characters and vivid settings🌳is keeping them, so engaged in the writing ✍️ process! @MRamos16R @ISTEofficial
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Teachers explored, collaborated, and reimagined the many ways they can utilize Chapter One. It’s more than students checking out books, it’s also where creativity sparks in @Pixton, critical thinking grows through Uzzle, and communication comes alive with Osmo. @fhenderson1908
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It's that time of the year again! Make a class photo with their avatars! Print for the door or hallway, share with parents, perfect for open house! Students love spotting themselves and their friends. Make it in minutes. 📸😎#classphoto
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