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Newsletter
August 28, 2020
2020 Learning Series

A Time for Action:
Centering Equity through Responsive, Transformative, Healing Literacy Instruction
The WRITE Center, in partnership with the National Writing Project and UC Irvine's School of Education, is excited to continue our learning series with webinars focusing on culturally responsive-sustaining remote education, transformative justice, and developing students' civic voices.
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About More Than Words: Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Remote Writing Instruction
September 14
Dr. David E. Kirkland
When Life Gives You Watermelons: Writing Communities, Race, and Transformative Justice
September 21
Dr. Maisha T. Winn
Words as Balm:
Civic Writing and Healing in
Precarious Times
September 28
Dr. Antero Garcia
Save the Date: New Webinar Offering
October 28, 2020
Dr. Sam Wineburg will discuss argument writing in the (online) history classroom. He is an expert in helping students learn to think like historians, evaluate evidence, and construct arguments. Wineburg heads the Stanford History Education Group (sheg.stanford.edu), whose curriculum and assessments have been downloaded nearly ten million times.
Highlights from our Blog
Letters to the President: Fostering Civic Literacy through Authentic Writing Tasks
In this two-part blog, we highlight the work of Dr. Antero Garcia and his colleagues (National Writing Project and KQED). ​They found that adolescents are eager to speak out on civic issues that impact their communities.
Guidelines on Using Copyrighted Materials for Teaching
Are you wondering about digital copies and copyright law? Here are guidelines on using copyrighted materials for teaching. Infographic co-developed by Tamara Tate, PhD/JD.
What is a Transformative Justice Approach to Literacy Education?
Dr. Maisha T. Winn describes how teachers can use restorative justice as a lens through which to view their responsibilities to students. This approach creates a space for youth to develop and express literate identities while critiquing the social, institutional, and political forces affecting their communities.
Who is [and who is not] in our curriculum?
Educators and researchers have increasingly given attention to the absence of multicultural, BIPOC, and women authors in school curricula.Our blog offers three steps educators can take to critically examine who is [and who is not] represented in our texts and curriculum. 
Resources from the National Writing Project
Throughout the month of August, experienced online educators joined the NWP community on Facebook and at Write Now at Medium to share their best tips and strategies. Even if you have already started school, you will find something here that responds to what you are thinking about now. Check out the overview, Back to School: Pandemic Edition, to get the Table of Contents or just visit Write Now to dive in.
NWP Radio, in partnership with the Connecticut Writing Project at Fairfield and Penguin Random House Books, has launched a special series called “The Write Time” where writing teachers from across the NWP Network interview young-adult and children’s authors about their books, their composing processes, and writers’ craft.
Resources from The History Project
Reserve your spot now for this free workshop series: "Building Students' Media Literacy for Civic Engagement."
Dates: September 17th, October 1st, and October 15th.
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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