Services - 2024-25 (And Looking Ahead to 2025-26)!
360Writing
An Instructional Framework for Georgia’s Writing Standards - Updated for 2024-25!
Teaching writing can be a challenge. It becomes more manageable when broken up into steps. That’s exactly what 360Writing does. It is an evidence-based instructional framework designed to help students meet the writing expectations of Georgia’s standards. The frameworks for each grade level and genre follow a 3-step pathway to success:
Build genre vocabulary
Build shorter pieces in the genre
Build more extended pieces in the genre
Each step of the way, the lessons build students’ confidence and skill, leaving them better-prepared for the next step. And because each framework follows the same pathway, writing instruction stays consistent from one grade level and genre to the next.
Key Updates for 2024-25:
With standards and assessments changing in 2025-26, the frameworks for 2024-2025 received important updates designed to ease this transition. These updates include:
Additional multimodal writing activities
Refreshed content and scaffolds at all grade levels and genres, with an even tighter cross-curricular focus
More avenues of support, including brief webinars throughout the year and access to regular “office hours”
In short, the 360Writing frameworks remain grounded in research, focused on current standards, and mindful of future standards.
360Writing On-Demand
Helping Students Do Their Best When Time Is Limited!
On-demand writing poses additional challenges, like limited time.
Accordingly, students do well to adjust their strategy in these situations. 360Writing On-Demand is a professional learning session designed to provide concrete tips teachers can use with students as they prepare for on-demand writing. These include:
Tips for managing time
Tips for reading the passages efficiently and with purpose
Tips for planning, prewriting, and drafting efficiently
Tips for revising and editing efficiently
Exercises for putting these tips into practice!
Looking Ahead to 2025-26
New Standards, New Resources
The 2025-26 school year will bring exciting changes, specifically revised ELA standards and assessments.
Students will be asked to interpret and construct texts in different modes (or types), for different audiences and purposes, using a variety of techniques.
This will be reflected in updated assessments in Georgia.
Responses will be scored with updated rubrics.
To help teachers and students make this transition as smoothly as possible, we will continue to provide easy-to-use tools, including:
Models of student writing for each score point on the updated rubrics.
Updates to 360Writing, providing a clear pathway for meeting the expectations of the updated standards.
Practice assessments mirroring the format of the updated assessments.
Tools for evaluating student writing in efficient, accurate ways.
