We crunched the numbers (well, sort of)—and here’s what your answers say about where your school is and where you might go next.
YOUR SCHOOL is ready for…
Purposeful, Explicit Writing Instruction
Congratulations! Your school is ready to move beyond writing prompts and quantity-over-quality instruction. You’re shifting toward what actually helps students grow as writers—explicit modeling, shared writing, sentence work, and meaningful opportunities to express ideas that matter. Whether you're building foundational writing in the early grades, embedding writing across content areas, supporting sentence- and paragraph-level growth, or designing vertically aligned argument writing in middle school, your staff is ready to dig in.
This is the stage where writing becomes a unifier—bringing structure, grammar, vocabulary, and deep thinking into one visible, powerful piece of literacy learning. Confidence builds. Expectations sharpen. And all students start seeing themselves as capable, communicative writers. What a place to be.
Start here.
Course Taster: Science of Writing (K-8)
Use the selected Science of Writing session to reflect on how writing is assessed and how instruction progresses from ideas to composition. During a team meeting, apply the See–Think–Wonder routine:
See: What writing tasks or routines are currently in place across classrooms?
Think: What do these tell us about how students are being taught to write?
Wonder: Where are the opportunities to strengthen clarity, structure, or progression?
Next…
Course Taster: Reimagining K-2 Literacy Blocks
Explore the Writing Rope lesson to deepen your understanding of how sentence-level routines build clarity and cohesion. Use student work samples across classrooms to analyze patterns in grammar, structure, and meaning-making.
What sentence-level routines are already in use and what’s missing?
What trends do you notice in students’ ability to construct clear, cohesive writing?
Choose 1–2 sentence routines to implement school-wide and observe how they influence student writing over time.
Then…
Launch a short-cycle writing inquiry. Choose a schoolwide focus (e.g., response to reading, paragraph development) and gather before/after samples. Reflect as a team: What changed in student writing? What teacher moves made the biggest difference?
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