Problem of Practice

I am focusing my design thinking around my English Language Arts curriculum that is currently in use. I would like to focus specifically on the writing aspect of the curriculum. I think that our writing curriculum is not meeting the needs of our students. Our current test scores also agree with my reflection. Students need to work specifically on capitalization, punctuation and idea organization. As an ELL department, we have made a plan to try and focus on different writing strategies that will help my students improve their writing. I am hoping through the design cycle, I will be able to develop more strategies and ways to integrate technology to improve students writing. I also hope that the cycle can help us focus and guide our research process.