ThinkCERA

Product: ThinkCERCA

Company: ThinkCERCA

Company Overview - Products/Services: ThinkCERCA’s personalized literacy curriculum and platform empower teachers to grow students' critical thinking skills through academic writing. Through CCSS-aligned close reading and academic writing lessons for English Language Arts, science, social studies, and math, our district-wide approach to literacy instruction prepares students in grades 3-12 for post-secondary life by building their analytical skills across content areas. Scaffolded lessons walk students through the process of using evidence and details to support their argumentative, informational, and narrative writings across disciplines

• Rigorous writing prompts focus on debatable issues and great literary models
• Interactive Argument Builder; prewriting tools for narrative and informational writing
• Standards-aligned sentence frames and supports for English language development

The CERCA Framework gives teams a common literacy language to collaborate more effectively across content areas and improve student outcomes. Our coherent curriculum is based on disciplinary texts and discipline-specific close reading and academic writing, including argumentative, informational, narrative, and research writing.

Product Design - Problem Statement: For students to succeed in today’s ever-changing world, they need to be able to evaluate and synthesize information as well as construct and communicate their thoughts effectively. In short, they need strong critical thinking skills.

Grade-Level Focus: 3rd - 12th grade