Ensure all learners have opportunities to engage deeply in meaningful intellectual work. In "Ambitious Instruction," author Brad Cawn offers a blueprint for how to make rigor visible, accessible, and actionable in grade 6-12 classrooms. The resource guides readers toward using the twin tenets of problem-based learning and synthesis to significantly strengthen students' ability to read, write, and think within and across disciplines. With this resource, teachers will: (1) Develop a working understanding of rigor that will serve as the basis for rigorous, instructional excellence; (2) Discover how to integrate inquiry and dialogue into your instruction to help learners engage in meaningful exploration of complex problems; (3) Become familiar with actionable strategies that can be utilized to develop and increase rigor in the classroom; and (4) Learn how to create and organize tasks, texts, and processes in order to improve teaching and learning.