Title: Writing Across the Curriculum Guide
Headings: Writing Across the Curriculum:
Writing Across the Curriculum:
You know writing across the curriculum is important. Here's how to make it a reality.
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Why Writing Is Important
Writing Is the Path to Critical Thinking
Jobs Are Changing. Students Need High-Level Literacy Skills to Succeed
Civic Readiness Also Requires Critical Thinking
Writing Across the Curriculum
Strategies to Implement a Writing Across the Curriculum Initiative
Empathize with Concerns & Provide Support
Set Clear Goals
OKRs Vocabulary:
Objective
What’s the purpose of the initiative?
Key Results
What qualitative metrics will give you insights into overall progress?
Key Activities
What action items will your team put into place to achieve your objective?
Use a Common Framework
Emphasize the Importance of Feedback
Ideas:
Devote Time to Discussion and Debate
Infographic: 7 ELD Conversational Strategies
Make Team Collaboration a Central Focus
Seeing Results with WAC
Adopting a District-Wide Initiative and Seeing Double-digit Growth
The Impact of Regularly Writing, Discussing, and Defending Ideas on ACT Scores
Making the Largest Gains in Massachusetts
Becoming California’s Top-Achieving Majority-Minority High School
Getting Started

Content: Thus, highly skilled writers exercise problem-solving and critical thinking throughout the writing process. With technology driving dramatic shifts away from low- and medium-skilled jobs, today's students urgently need high-level literacy skills to help them access economic opportunities in the Information Age. Civic Readiness Also Requires Critical Thinking
In addition to workplace preparedness, for students to succeed in life, they must be able to evaluate information with a critical lens. These days, anyone with access to the Internet can distribute information, regardless of whether it’s accurate or not. Today's students have access to that information, but they don't necessarily have the skills to assess it. Newspapers of record are no longer the only gatekeepers of news. Blogs, forums, and social media accounts can dispense stories, theories, and opinions without hesitation or the fact-checking resources of prominent newspapers. Even when corrections are issued, inaccuracies often travel far wider than corrections. As the RAND Corporation states: “Disagreement over facts appears to be greater than ever.