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Sustaining Reform as Steady Work: Fordson High School

To become effective writers across genres, students need to practice writing for different contexts and purposes. Explore this collection of videos and resources designed to help teachers meet new literacy standards as they teach students to describe, narrate, inform, persuade, and analyze in their writing.

Young children love engaging, complex stories, and they have the capacity to write imaginative, language-rich stories of their own. In this blog post, Pamela Spycher of WestEd's Leading with Learning initiative shares how to use the Teaching and Learning Cycle to support young children’s discussion, comprehension, and writing of stories, and provides a five-day outline teachers can use to get started.

With extensive literacy investigations built into each lesson, Making Sense of SCIENCE (MSS) five-day professional learning courses empower science teachers to integrate language and literacy instruction into their classrooms in ways that help students master challenging science concepts. Find out how MSS teacher and facilitator courses, and customized professional learning, impacts student learning.

Quality Teaching for English Learners professional development offers practical approaches for effectively teaching the conceptual understandings, academic practices, and language that are critical to ensuring that English learners achieve 21st century success. Learn how to build on the strengths all students possess to realize their potential.