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==//** What: **// This year-long Oakland Schools initiative is an opportunity for teams of teachers from a single building and grade-level to design and pilot a two week interdisciplinary curricular unit that focuses on research writing skills. Teachers from multiple content-areas will create an interdisciplinary experience for students that builds their literacy and research skills.==

Teachers will engage in professional learning about

 * ==interdisciplinary teaching,==
 * ==curriculum design,==
 * ==building student research writing skills,==
 * ==and presenting professional development to peers.==

==They will each receive a $500 stipend for a completed and revised unit. The final step in the initiative is for participants to develop a PD module to present in their district about their interdisciplinary unit and building research writing skills.==

==//** Who: **// Teams of teachers from across Oakland County are invited to join this initiative. They will be supported in this work by Darin Stockdill and Delia DeCourcy, consultants from Oakland Schools, as well as other seasoned educators from across the content areas and Special Education.==

== //**Why:**// The Common Core focuses heavily on students' ability to find, analyze, and synthesize information. This initiative empowers teachers to consider how they will collaborate with colleagues to help students develop these skills across the curriculum. The interdisciplinary focus also encourages multiple subject areas to take up the work of building literacy skills and to do so in creative and engaging ways. ==