NEWSLETTER
December 28th, 2019
Upcoming Events
Dr. Sam Wineburg discusses Historical Thinking: Selecting and evaluating effective evidence
Thursday, March 26th
4:00pm-6:00pm PT
Please tune in to our free livestream to hear Dr. Sam Wineburg discuss the applications of Historical Thinking to secondary classrooms. You can also attend the event in person; more information about attending the event will be available in February!

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.
Past Events
Dr. Jennifer Fletcher discusses research-based strategies for teaching rhetorical comprehension, critique, and response
Highlights from our blog!
In our first year as a national center dedicated to improving the source-based argument writing of secondary students, we have featured a number of studies which demonstrate effective strategies to improve secondary writing on our blog. Please feel free to revisit some of our best content and let us know what you would like to learn more about in the upcoming year!



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