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Not Waiting for Superman[]

= . . . Afterthoughts: Teaching Writing in Schools K- college = = =

= If you had $25 million dollars. . . = = how would you improve writing instruction in K-12 schools? =

=== 4) Subsidize tuition and leadership in 200 summer institutes for **one year** where teachers share successful methods in the teaching of writing and deploy these teachers as professional developers and teacher researchers in K-12 schools. ===

5) You have a better idea?
=Principles of Professional Development=

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= Common Core State Standards = ** Writing **  · The ability to write logical arguments based on substantive claims, sound reasoning,  and relevant evidence is a cornerstone of the writing standards,  with opinion writing—a basic form argument —extending down into the earliest grades.

 · Research—both short, focused projects (such as those commonly required in the workplace)  and longer term in depth research —is emphasized throughout the standards  but most prominently in the writing strand since a written analysis  and presentation of findings is so often critical.

 · Annotated samples of student writing accompany  the standards and help establish adequate performance levels in writing  arguments, informational / explanatory texts, and narratives in the various grades.  []