Project SWEET - Pajaro Valley Unified School District

When the California Standards Test (CST) in English Language Arts (ELA) determined that 70 percent of middle school students in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District in Watsonville, California, were working below standards, and that 43 percent of eighth graders did not pass the graduation requirement for writing, it was clear that the students needed to be provided with unique tools to boost writing skills.