Unmuting Potential: Rethinking Speaking Opportunities Within ERWC to Unleash Student Voices
By Grace Adcock and Cristy Kidd October 20, 2025 Picture a student in your classroom who has mastered speaking and listening. You probably saw someone who is actively listening, speaking with confidence, informed with facts and ideas, knows when to speak up and when to make space for others, considers counterarguments, and has audience awareness. …
Extending the Pipeline: The ERWC-ELD Middle School Curriculum
By Robby Ching and Debra Boggs These are a few of the compelling questions that students grapple with as they read, discuss, and view the texts that form the basis for the new ERWC-ELD middle school modules. The modules guide students in reading complex texts across a range of genres, including novels, memoirs, graphic novels,…
Can’t Read, Won’t Read
The latest NAEP reading scores suggest all the above. By Carol Jago Many of us had hoped that the 2024 NAEP reading assessment results would offer evidence that students had recovered from the pandemic slump and were back on track. The opposite, alas, is the case. Eighth grade students in every state scored worse in…
What Teachers Want to Know about the New ERWC Grant
By Anne Portferfield As you may have heard, there’s a new ERWC grant opportunity! Through the Education Innovation and Research grant, California State University is developing yearlong ERWC courses for grades 9 and 10, and high school English teachers will pilot them beginning in the 2025–26 school year. I have begun meeting with teachers to…
The ERWC Portfolio
By Lori Campbell Spring is the bittersweet season when our ERWC students prepare their portfolios for the transition to college. I have the privilege of keeping many of my students for two or more years in the Kern Learn blended program, so I have been able to track their growth through the two pathways in…
ERWC Awarded $15 Million Grant!
The Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum (ERWC) steering committee is thrilled to announce a 15 million dollar Education, Innovation and Research (EIR) grant awarded to the Fresno County Superintendent of Schools (FCSS). The grant, Reading and Writing for College and Career Success: Expanding the Reach of the Expository Reading and Writing Curriculum, was awarded to expand and…
Upcoming ERWC Webinar with Antero Garcia!
Editor’s Note: ERWC is delighted to announce a free webinar with Antero Garcia on Thursday, January 18th at 4:30 pm PST. Antero is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University and Vice President of the National Council of Teachers of English. A former English teacher at a public high school in South…
The Bias that Divides Us
Review of Get Free: Antibias Literacy Instruction for Stronger Readers, Writers, and Thinkers by Tricia Ebarvia By Carol Jago Are you looking for a book to spark fresh conversation in your English Department or PLC? Tricia Ebarvia invites readers to reexamine many practices that we take for granted as beneficial. For example, asking us, many…
Upcoming ERWC Webinar with Kelly Gallagher!
Editor’s Note: ERWC is excited to announce a free webinar with Kelly Gallagher on Thursday, September 21st at 4:30 pm. Please visit the ERWC Online Community for details and registration. By Jennifer Fletcher In the summer of 2022, the National Council of Teachers of English published a new statement on writing instruction in school. The…
20th Anniversary Message Board
This summer ERWC is celebrating two decades as a literacy initiative. As part of the anniversary festivities, we’ve been collecting congratulatory messages from some of our favorite educational leaders, including Kelly Gallagher, Carol Jago, Jim Burke, Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, Trevor Aleo, Matthew Johnson, and Carol Booth Olson. Continue reading to see what esteemed colleagues…
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