Professional development focus of informational texts

Something else is interesting in that article in education week that I've posted about recently. " New York City singled out informational text as this year's focus and it's work to get ready for the common core standards in English language arts.". I admire a single year-long focus like that. I think that you can get a lot of information discussed with single focus like that. "the district conducted professional development aimed at helping teachers think through how to create instructional units and tasks reflecting the shift in the standards. To support that work the 1.1 million students district set up a digital common core library that includes 13 bundles of sample activities lesson plans and other resources for instruction based on information text."