NEWSLETTER
February 28, 2020
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 is now available on our website!

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.
Highlights from our blog!
Our blog features the work developed by two members of the WRITE Center's Advisory Board , Chauncy Monte-Sano and Mary Shleppgrell. Read.Inquire.Write offers teachers free curriculum and resources to improve student's reading, reasoning, and writing with sources through social studies inquiry. In our blog we highlight THREE disciplinary literacy tools to support your students' learning!
Stanford History Education Group ( SHEG ), offers a number of free resources to help secondary history and literacy teachers improve students’ source-based analytical thinking, writing about sources, and reasoning about online texts. In our blog we highlight THREE awesome resources for teachers:
What is new in Research?
Want to support your English Learner's writing development? Tamara Tate's recent study of digital writing in grades 4-11 suggests that while increased time in writing digitally across the curriculum benefits all students, English Learners may improve even more than their English proficient peers.
Interested in more resources?
Check out the following links for resources to support your teaching and students' learning in the classroom.
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