Writing instruction is at an inflection point in Texas. STAAR requires more writing across grades and content areas, including content-focused constructed responses in social studies. At the same time, AI is fundamentally changing how our students view and approach writing tasks. In this session, we'll discuss these new challenges and simple, easy-to-implement solutions. The session will be highly interactive and include various strategies, tips, and tools to help you increase the effectiveness of writing practice in your classroom without increasing your workload. Participants will be given work time to build out resources for their classroom so that, by the session's end, all participants will immediately walk away with at least one strategy or tool that they can use in their classroom. A zoom link will be shared with participants prior to the date.