This article outlines the concept of readiness to learn (RTL) as a framework for explaining students’ differentiated engagement with the Teaching for Transfer (TFT) curriculum. As documented in student voices, RTL operates along a continuum ranging from preparing to engage, on one end, to enacting TFT, on the other, with beginning to engage in the middle.

“Joint Position Statement on Dual Enrollment from CCCC, TYCA, WPA, NCTE” Jan. 2020.

Drawing on the Teaching for Transfer (TFT) writing curriculum, this study documents how students in writing courses at four different institutions transferred writing knowledge and practice concurrently into other sites of writing, including other courses, co-curriculars, and workplaces. This research demonstrates that when students, supported by the TFT curriculum, understood that appropriate transfer of writing knowledge and practice is both possible and desirable, (1) they engaged in writing transfer during the TFT course into other sites of writing; (2) they transferred from in-school contexts into out-of-school contexts with facility; and (3) in both cases, they engaged in a just-in-time transfer.

The authors look at some dual enrollment students who were not success stories.

Five years after our original study on fourteen- and fifteen-year-old dual enrollment students, this article explores the implications of dual enrollment by returning to one of the original study participants to assess the impact on writing performance, writing practices, and her life more generally.

This article draws data from a participant-observation study that considers fourteen-and fifteen-year-old-dual enrollment students and gauges the impact of their attendance in a section of first-year composition on them, on other students, and on curricular rigor.

This article explores the efforts of an instructor of at-risk students to implement into her course a generative theme that urged students to explore the conditions of their admittance as provisional students.