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 practices that help students grow in demonstrable ways: explicit modeling, shared writing, sentence work, and meaningful opportunities to express ideas that matter.
At this stage, schools begin orchestrating efficient, effective literacy instruction, bringing structure, grammar, vocabulary, and deep comprehension together into one visible, powerful whole.
It’s time to start digging into:
strengthening foundational writing in the early grades
embedding writing meaningfully across content areas
adopting and designing reliable writing assessments
supporting sentence- and paragraph-level growth
aligning units and expectations across divisions
When writing is taught (not just assigned) student progress becomes immediately evident.
Confidence builds. Expectations are clear. And all students begin to see themselves as capable, communicative writers.
What a place to be.
Let’s get started.
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…
Try this “Norming Meeting” protocol in your next team planning or grade-level meeting. It’s a simple but powerful way to build shared expectations around student writing.
What does “meeting the standard” really look like?
Where are students thriving, and where do they need more support?
Use this protocol to surface patterns, clarify your rubric language, and grow a common understanding of strong writing. The real goal? Better conversations that lead to better feedback, stronger instruction, and more confident writers.
Click the image to access the resource.
Like what you’ve unlocked?
These tasters are just the beginning.
Want full access to this course - plus our entire library of professional learning resources, planners, tools, and on-demand sessions? It all lives inside the EKC Community Membership.
Ready for more? Drop your name and email below, and we’ll be in touch to explore the right access path for your school.