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Real Works

Academic Rigor, Targeted Instruction, and Guaranteed Equity

Authentic writing assignments for any K-12 class—English, Social Studies, and Science

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Rigor

We level up instruction without leveling down content.

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Flexibility

Whether teaching online or in person, our materials can be integrated into any curriculum or scope and sequence.

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Authenticity

Let your students do the real-world thinking of literary critics, historians, and scientists.

Real Works

Reading that informs. Writing that communicates.

This K-12 curriculum, created to be thoughtfully implemented through either in-person or virtual classroom instruction, is built on a collection of rich, diverse readings by renowned, award-winning authors and disciplinary experts. Our Real Works curriculum strategically pairs selected standards-aligned texts from ELA, Social Studies, and Science with authentic, engaging, and real-world standards-driven writing opportunities. Real Works Modules challenge students to read, write, think, and communicate like members of the academic and professional disciplines they will one day inhabit. The curriculum’s title refers to both the real-world texts students read and real-world work they produce.

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Not Just a Writing Assignment

Real Works is more than a collection of writing assignments. It’s a way for students and teachers to discover how knowledge gets made.

Classroom Experience

Whether online or in person, let your students engage in the same reading, writing, organization, and communication practices as critics, anthropologists, and chemists (and everyone in between).

Real Works Curriculum

Every assignment in our Real Works curriculum includes a performance task, focus standards, SCALE-validated rubrics, instructional plan for approximately 10 hours of instruction, a student workbook, and formative assessments.

Professional Development

We are there to support you when you want teachers to recognize and expect disciplinary rigor from every student, and to run their classrooms through real-time data-based inquiry and formative instruction.

Informed Leadership

When we partner with you to close the achievement gap, you will start creating a new generation of educational leaders within your school system who can offer ongoing support and development opportunities to veteran and new teachers alike.
Proven Success

We respond to changing needs in a changing world.

We won the prestigious 2019 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s Spotlight on Quality in Continuous Improvement because of our commitment to student equity and rigor in writing and our continual support of teachers in these areas.

LDC unites a network of educators and uses disciplined inquiry cycles to test and refine our strategic supports for instructional improvement. An independent study by CRESST (UCLA) involving 110+ schools in LAUSD and NYC confirmed that LDC had a statistically-significant impact and large effects sizes that amounted to over 9 months additional growth over matched pair control students.

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940+

Districts

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100,231+

Educators

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2.4+

Million Students

District Partners

LDC Partners Speak Out

Educators across the country have engaged with our curriculum and are seeing great results. 

Standards are forcing us to make sure every student is thinking about the same things and producing the same quality products—no matter their level.

LDC District Administrator
I’ve seen huge changes in my students. They are talking and thinking in ways they never have before. And they have a new kind of confidence in themselves. On testing day, I didn’t have one student in my office; I didn’t have any anxiety attacks, or bathroom accidents. All of our students felt ready to walk in there and take that test.

LDC Principal
We finally have enough real-time data to triangulate, which means we can be more intentional and precise in our instruction.

LDC Teacher
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