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Writing for Success: How Newsela Writing Prepares California Classrooms for End of Year Assessments

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Writing for Success: How Newsela Writing Prepares California Classrooms for End of Year Assessments

Prepare your students for success on California’s SBAC, ELPAC, and other key assessments with Newsela Writing.


In this session, you'll discover how the platform supports key writing skills, aligns with assessment rubrics, and provides actionable feedback to help students grow. We’ll walk through a demo of how to create Short Constructed Response (SCR) and Extended Constructed Response (ECR) assignments using California-specific rubrics. Leave with practical strategies and resources to confidently integrate Newsela Writing into your instruction and support student success on these critical assessments.

 

All Newsela customers have access to Newsela Writing with their subscription through the end of the school year. Learn how to get started today!

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In this session, you'll walk away with:

A preview of Newsela Writing: an exciting new tool that saves teachers time in providing real time B.E.S.T.-aligned writing feedback to students.

An understanding of how Newsela Writing scaffolds writing feedback based on students’ reading level and unpacks the B.E.S.T. rubric into achievable components.

Samples of grades 4-10 FL B.E.S.T. writing assignments to use to prepare students for success!

Schedule

12 pm

Our VP of Product Marketing, Ingrid Wantuch, kicks off the event with a welcome message.

1 pm

Speaker presentation by our Co-Founders Timothy Staples and Jeffrey Hunt.

2 pm 

“What Makes an Effective Virtual Event?” is a roundtable panel, hosted by moderator Leslie Patel. 

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Dan Cogan-Drew

Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer, Newsela

Dan brings twenty-plus years of professional experience spent working towards a more perfect union of teaching, learning and technology. Prior to Newsela, Dan was the founding Director of Digital Learning at Achievement First Public Charter Schools, where he spearheaded the integration of digital learning technologies across the network. He began his education career in Teach for America and went on to teach in public and private schools, as well as in the US Navy. He holds degrees from Wesleyan University, Brown University, and Tufts University.

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Arianna Ranahosseini

Curricular Solutions Architect, Newsela

Arianna Ranahosseini is a Curricular Solutions Architect at Newsela and previously designed and delivered Newsela professional learning for districts across the country. Prior to joining Newsela, Arianna was a middle school ELA teacher and a literacy lead.

Related resources for California educators 

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Efficacy Study: Newsela ELA users outscored their peers on SBAC 

In a study meeting ESSA Tier II criteria,

Newsela ELA users in grades 6-8 outscored their peers on the SBAC by 4-5 percentiles in a large urban district in California. 


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Guide: Make Writing Practice a District Priority 

 

This guide shares helpful frameworks, examples of what writing activities and support look like in different subjects, and practical tips to help your teachers implement writing practice in their classrooms, no matter what subject they teach.

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Webinar: Driving Student Achievement in Literacy & Beyond  

In this panel discussion, hear expert perspectives on the importance of writing practice to support student growth, uncover the latest research on the science of writing, and get practical steps to weave meaningful writing practice into lessons for every subject.

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Did you know? Newsela Writing is available for free to all Newsela customers and included in all trials through the end of the school year. 


Ready to get started? Learn how to access Newsela Writing in the platform!

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