Middle School
English
Action Research
Can we improve the quality of student writing by incorporating blogging, as a medium for writing?
 6 Strategies
Do everything you can think of to make sure that learners are the owners of their own learning. 
Provide to and co-develop with learners the criteria for success. 
Provide learners with clarity about and understanding of the learning intentions of the learning with which they are engaged.
Provide regular, thoughtful feedback that moves learning forward for the individual learner
Put learners to work as learning/teaching resources for each other.

Design and use thoughtful classroom questions to lead discussions that generate evidence of learning.
What did all of this do for writing in the Middle School?
Thank You!
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Promoted teacher collaboration 
Students wrote 2 MS Writes that were used to collect data based on 
meaning
style 
form 
comventions