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Tracking the Sustainable Development of WAC Programs Using Sustainability Indicators: Limitations and Possibilities
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Cox, Michelle; Galin, Jeffrey R. – Across the Disciplines, 2019
"Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs" (Cox, Galin, & Melzer, 2018a) lays out a systematic whole systems approach to program development that draws on complexity theories and integrates the use of sustainability indicators (SIs) for monitoring and assessing…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Sustainability, Holistic Approach, Program Development
Get Started and Write: Advice for New Faculty
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Smith, M. Cecil – New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development, 2017
This paper describes several strategies for organizing, collaborating on, persisting in, and funding professional writing activities that can benefit new tenure track faculty members. Establishing and maintaining a regular program of academic writing is essential to a successful career in higher education, but initiating and maintaining a program…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Beginning Teachers, Tenure, Writing Strategies
Accessing the Common Core Standards for Students with Learning Disabilities: Strategies for Writing Standards-Based IEP Goals
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Caruana, Vicki – Preventing School Failure, 2015
Since the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 2004, standards-based individualized education plans (IEPs) have been an expectation for serving students with disabilities in the K-12 public school setting. Nearly a decade after the mandates calling for standards-based IEPs, special educators still struggle…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, State Standards, Writing Strategies, Individualized Education Programs
Connecting the Dots in a Research Program to Develop, Implement, and Evaluate Strategic Literacy Interventions for Struggling Readers and Writers
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Englert, Carol Sue – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2009
This article follows the development of three literacy programs that were designed by researchers at Michigan State University to support struggling readers and writers. The literacy interventions focus on strategy instruction in both writing and reading, and they culminate in the development of an integrated reading-writing program to support the…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Intervention
Aligning Assessments with State Curriculum Standards and Teaching Strategies
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Pemberton, Jane B.; Rademacher, Joyce A.; Tyler-Wood, Tandra; Perez Cereijo, Maria Victoria – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2006
This article describes the steps of moving from state curriculum standards for writing to selecting and teaching a writing strategy to designing curriculum-based assessments in writing. The relationship between assessment and instruction is strengthened as educators monitor student progress in the state curriculum standards, make sound…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Writing Strategies, Curriculum Development, State Curriculum Guides
Publishing Their Way to Better Writing.
Reid, Judy – Principal, 2001
A reading specialist provides tips for developing a student publishing center aimed at improving writing skills and involving students in all publishing operations. Steps include assembling a planning team, considering various models, gaining financial assistance, furnishing the center, gathering needed supplies, and launching the program. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Financial Support, Guidelines, Program Development