I loved how a sustainable structure was put in place in this school. How the goal to improve student writing was cross curricular, and how the entire staff was either directly or indirectly involved. There was meaningful collaboration and communication in setting attainable goals, communicating these goals, using measurable targets, and setting up cycles of monitoring of success towards the goal and revising steps to attainment when needed. I loved how the staff used the SIM Paragraph Writing Strategy to initially work with students to give them the writing skills they needed to be able to demonstrate/make the writing improvements the team were looking for. I loved the use of student data from baseline writing samples to establish individual student goals for improvement. Student ownership and buy in is so very important.
