Teaching Secondary Students to Write Effectively

Linda D. Friedrich serves on the leader-

ship team that developed the College-Ready 

Writers Program. She currently serves as 

the director of research and evaluation at 

the National Writing Project. With Teachers 

College Press, the National Writing Project 

co-published two of the books referenced in 

this guide: Uncommonly Good Ideas: Teaching 

Writing in the Common Core

95

 and Helping 

English Learners to Write: Meeting Common 

Core Standards, Grades 6–12.

96

 The National 

Writing Project is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit 

organization. These books were used to  

support examples in the guide.

Carol Booth Olson receives royalties as 

a senior program consultant on Houghton-

Mifflin McDougal Littell Literature, a language 

arts textbook, and The Reading/Writing  

Connection: Strategies for Teaching and 

Learning in the Secondary Classroom (Pear-

son), a professional book for teachers. She 

is the principal investigator of the Pathway 

Project intervention, which has been funded 

by grants from IES, the Office of English Lan-

guage Acquisition (OELA), and the Investment 

in Innovation (i3) Fund. Her research studies 

from IES and OELA grants are mentioned in 

this guide. No royalties were derived from 

these grants. Dr. Olson co-authored studies 

that were included in the guide that included 

the Pathway Project as an intervention.

---

( 

66

 )