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D20 aims for 40 minutes of daily writing K–12; district details resources and classroom practices
Summary
District literacy staff told the board the district goal is for every D20 student to write 40 minutes a day, K–12. Presenters described grade‑level differences, core resources, how grammar instruction is embedded in context, and monitoring tools schools use to track implementation.
District literacy staff on Thursday told the Academy School District 20 Board of Education that the district has established a goal requiring students to write 40 minutes per school day across kindergarten through 12th grade, and described the approach and resources the district is using to support that goal.
Andy Ruskin and Carrie Evans, who led the presentation, told trustees that the form and purpose of writing instruction shifts as students move through the system: elementary instruction focuses on ‘‘learning to write’’ (letter formation, sentence and paragraph…
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