BUILDING STRONG WRITERS HOW CATHEDRAL CONTINUES “ THE WRITING REVOLUTION” HABITS OF SCHOLARSHIP
By Jenny Cals, Director of Curriculum and Instruction
WRITING IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ways students learn to think. It helps them organize their ideas, make sense of information, and express themselves with clarity. At Cathedral School for Boys, we want each student to leave not just knowing how to write but knowing that his voice matters.
That’s why we’ve continued to deepen our work with The Writing Revolution (TWR), a methodology grounded in decades of research on how writing develops thinking and learning. TWR gives students practical strategies to build strong sentences, clear paragraphs, and organized arguments.
These strategies are being strengthened and aligned across grades and subjects. In the Lower School, students begin with sentence- level activities that help them understand the building blocks of meaning. They learn to write clear, complete sentences and gradually progress to structured single- and multi- paragraph writing. In the Upper School, teachers in English, history, and science use common approaches for note-taking, single- paragraph responses, and multi-paragraph essays, helping students organize evidence and express ideas with precision. And the results show. When the writing process is scaffolded and reinforced across different subjects, students develop greater confidence, revise their work more thoughtfully, and collaborate more effectively. Breaking writing into steps — outlining, drafting, and editing — lightens cognitive load, allowing students to focus on one skill at a time while steadily building toward more complex tasks. Over time, these routines help students internalize the process so that they grow not only as writers but also as attentive
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