Direactly from the website: "The NWP Digital Is website is a collection of ideas, reflections, and stories about what it means to teach writing in our digital, interconnected world. Read, discuss, and share ideas about teaching writing today."
"Word Generation is a middle school academic language program". A word/concept is introduced each week and is practiced in each of the core content areas throughout the week.
Those of us who attended the Anita Archer summer workshop have tossed around the merits and challenges that this might have if we implemented this concept school-wide or even if individual teams incorporated it. It's worth a look to begin a discussion...