The College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP), developed by the National Writing Project, provides scaffolded teaching and formative assessment resources that support the development of students’ argument writing and prepares youth for college, career, and community engagement. The purpose of the CRWP Summer Institute focuses on supporting district leadership teams comprised of 2-4  seventh through tenth grade ELA teachers along with a district leader in the exploration of new instructional practices and engaging students in complex reading and argumentative writing. District leadership teams will learn through study and implementation of CRWP and collaborative collection and assessment of data to design teacher pathways for scale up.