Special Edition Newsletter
April 14, 2020
Navigating Remote Teaching and Learning
The WRITE Center wants to support teachers and students during this unprecedented time. While we recognize that your current experiences are unique and complex, we also want to share resources for supporting remote teaching and learning.

Here, we offer ideas that focus on seeking student feedback, planning asynchronous learning, and prioritizing what's important!
Although teachers can elicit student feedback in a variety of ways, Socrative , a free, multi-purpose tool, can be used during the formative assessment process. Teachers can use Socrative to elicit student feedback that can be used to improve their learning experiences. We also share a few ways to use Socrative HERE , in our blog.
Monitoring students' drafting process can pose unique challenges during remote learning. Check out the five advantages of using Padlet to support student writing.
Using self-monitoring of understanding is an important meta-cognitive skill for students. Flipgrid can be used to support students' reflection on their own learning.
How do we take a human-centered approach to teaching remotely? @gcouros and @calstate and offer core practices to guide planning and instruction.
We have recently highlighted ways to engage students in targeted self-reflection as they move towards learning goals. Our blog shared the work of @JenRoberts1, who has made available an easy and insightful way to engage students in self-assessment using Google Forms. Find her form and read her blog .

Lastly, we see great potential in Draftback, which let’s teachers play back the revision history of any Google Doc that can be edited. It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. Teachers can model their writing process for students by pausing the video to provide commentary on their writing moves as students watch and listen. Students can better understand their own writing process using this free Chrome Extension.
Resource in the Spotlight!
Amid the current 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 to you HERE .
Upcoming Insights
WRITE Center advisory board member, Jim Burke, will be featured in our next blog post. He will share his innovations and challenges to supporting students' writing of six types of academic texts, in light of COVID-19.
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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