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TEN SLEEP—On a rainy Thursday in September, English teacher Jessica Jackson stood in a second-floor classroom talking with a handful of high school students about gothic literature. The topic was timely, given the season and weather.

Jackson’s students were writing an original horror story for an ongoing project. The class discussed the nuances between horror and thriller genres, the works of Edgar Allan Poe and elements of gothic fiction like supernatural forces. Conversation ranged from historical context to Hitchcock films to the antiheroes of comic books.

Students were engaged but casual. They did not give the impression of educational automa

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