The document summarizes a writing project called PEG (Project Essay Grade) that aims to standardize writing instruction across an entire school. PEG will help students by providing frequent feedback, aligning with new standards, and empowering students in the writing process. It will help teachers by preparing students for new assessments, using data to support students, meeting performance goals, and reducing grading time. School-wide expectations for PEG include using it to provide feedback on at least one assignment per quarter, using Safe Assign for plagiarism checking, including writing samples in digital portfolios, and maintaining high writing standards across all classes.

1. MJHS Writes!
Project Essay Grade (PEG)
Blackboard Safe Assign
Entire School Expectations

2. PEG will help students by:
• Standardizing writing instruction school wide through common vocabulary, grading
criteria, rubrics
• Giving students frequent, fast feedback
• Aligning with new TNReady standards/performance-based writing assessments
• Encouraging writing across the curriculum
• Empowering students to evaluate their work at various stages in the writing process
• Recent ACT changes integrate more writing opportunities and synthesis and the scoring
aligns with PEG’s grading criteria

3. PEG will help teachers by:
• Preparing students for new TNReady assessments that writing more than ever
• Using data to differentiate support for student writing (connection to RTI Tier I benchmarking
plan)
• Helping MJHS meet identified performance goals for writing and literacy instruction
• Expanding the use of rubrics and other strategies to engage students in self-assessment
• Facilitating literacy instruction across subject areas
• Allowing content-area teachers to focus on grading content -- not grammar
• Reduce the total amount of time necessary to grade written work
• Transforming writing process from paper-based to digital

4. School Wide Writing (PEG) Expectations
• Use PEG to provide feedback on one written assignment at least 1 per 9 weeks 2016-2017
• Use Safe Assign on these assignments and other course specific writing assignments
• Have students include a writing sample from each of your classes in their digital portfolio
• Always expect and require high quality writing
• Use the PEG rubric(s) to evaluate student writing to maintain a high standard for quality
writing across all courses with common evaluative vocabulary
• Strive to go beyond the minimum standard for writing frequency
• Strive to partner with another content area on a writing assignment and grading
• Strive to have student partners and collaborate through peer editing

5. Tips for Using
Safe Assign
Josh Landers-Presenter