NEWSLETTER
March 20, 2020
Event Update
Thank you for your interest in attending the Sam Wineburg event on 3/26/2020 from 4-6pm (PT). Unfortunately, this event has been postponed to a later date. We will keep you updated on when it will be rescheduled.
Dr. Sam Wineburg will discuss the applications of Historical Thinking to secondary classrooms. Wineburg's scholarship sits at the crossroads of three fields: the psychology of teaching & learning, history, and education. Wineburg will be discussing Historical Thinking: Selecting and
evaluating effective evidence. He heads the Stanford History Education Group (sheg.stanford.edu) which is responsible for creating the Reading Like a Historian curriculum and Beyond the Bubble assessments. Their current work focuses on how young people evaluate online content. To learn more about Sam Wineburg, please visit our website.
Highlights from our blog!
Resource in the Spotlight showcased The National Writing Project

The National Writing Project (NWP) is a network of sites anchored at colleges and universities and serves teachers across disciplines, from early childhood through university. They provide professional development, develop resources, generate research, and act on knowledge to improve the teaching of writing.

NWP sites share a set of principles and practices for teachers’ professional development. In addition to developing a leadership cadre of local teachers (called “teacher-consultants”) through invitational summer institutes, NWP sites design and deliver customized in-service programs for local schools, districts, and higher education institutions, and provide a diverse array of continuing education and research opportunities for teachers.

Co-directed by faculty from the local university and from K–12 schools, approximately 175 local sites serve the country. To learn how to get involved, visit our website.
Our blog features the work d eveloped by two members of The WRITE Center's Advisory Board, Chauncey Monte-Sano and Mary Schleppgrell. Read.Inquire.Write   helps teachers improve student  reading, reasoning, and writing with sources through social studies inquiry. Their free and downloadable curriculum creates a process to support secondary students' argument writing through the reading of sources and analysis of complex social and historical problems. To learn more, visit our website.
What is new in Research?
Interested in learning about argument writing? Check out this study ( Shedding Light on Research-Based Approaches to Teaching Argument Writing in Grades 6-12) on our website.
Resource in the Spotlight!
Amidst the Coronavirus impacts on schools, students, and teachers, WRITE Center advisory board member, Kelly Gallagher shares his insight on strategies for teaching critical reading,writing, speaking, and listening. Gallagher and his colleagues have made their lesson plans available for other educators. To access these resources and more, click here .
Check out the following links for resources to support your teaching and students' learning in the classroom.
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About Us
The WRITE Center, funded by ​the US Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, is a national center focused on researching and sharing best writing practices in secondary ELA and History classrooms. The WRITE Center will pursue its goal of improving secondary students' source-based argument writing by:

PARTNERING
with writing researchers, school leaders, and secondary teachers to address the national concern related to student writing
DEVELOPING
a focused plan of research to inform resources for history teachers' source-based argument writing instruction
CONTRIBUTING
to the national conversation about Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation

For questions, please contact The WRITE Center at thewritecenter@gmail.com