Sophie, 28, is a freelance journalist from Nashville who covered 11th-grade creative writing for a week while the regular teacher recovered from knee surgery. On day one she gave the class a free-write prompt: "Write about something that changed how you see the world." Every single boy in the class wrote about Sophie. (She found out on day three when she graded them. She kept a straight face. Barely.) By Friday, four students had asked if she could advise the school newspaper. There was no school newspaper. There is now. It publishes monthly, has 200 student subscribers, and Sophie consults remotely for $75 an hour. The knee-surgery teacher has not been asked to advise anything.