Professional development in available in writing for all teachers . Professional development is available that is specific to writing in the content areas . Teachers are trained for and participate in portfolio scoring . Teachers have access to ongoing mentoring and other informal professional development . The school faculty work together in professional development targeted to identified schools needs .
Teachers write for pleasure or for real world purposes outside the classroom .
Student understanding Students' are confident that they can eventually reach proficiency . Students speak of themselves as writers, not just as completers of writing assignments . Students are able to compare their current writing cogently with writing done earlier, even in previous years . Students are familiar with and use the writing process . Students use computers to facilitate writing .