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Newsletter
July 30, 2020
2020 Learning Series Continued

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 in September with three webinars focusing on culturally responsive-sustaining remote education, transformative justice, and developing students' civic voices.
Registration is Now Open
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
Highlights from our Blog
Dr. Troy Hicks provides additional thoughts on designing arcs of writing instruction. He focuses on additional audience questions related to student engagement and instructional tools for literacy learning.
Our students live varied and complex literate lives outside the classroom. Adolescents write in online forums, create fanfiction in digital writing communities, and participate in literacy activities as community organizers and activists. One way educators can validate the diverse and expanding literacies of adolescents is by providing diverse writing opportunities. This blog provides guidelines for teachers.
Pens to Pixels: A Collection of Poetry Digital Magazine
Pens to Pixels: A Collection of Poetry
During Carol Jago's webinar "Writing Poetry to Read Poetry in Online Spaces," participants were invited to write a poem that reflects the current changes they are experiencing with social distancing. Using Quincy Troupe's poem, "Flying Kites" as a mentor text, our community of learners wrote their own poems. Pens to Pixels: A Collection of Poetry is a digital magazine we created using Madmagz.com to share the experiences and changes of our nation's educators.
Resources from the National Writing Project
Youth and Educators Work Together on (Re)Defining Youth Space  
As cities and regions move to reopen, will we experience places differently? In 2019, youth and educators came together in Cleveland, Ohio to design a collaborative inquiry into place through recognizing and engaging with the complexities and tensions youth face in public spaces. Supported by a 2019-2020 LRNG Innovator’s Challenge grant , “The City is Our Campus” engaged youth as critical partners in community-focused, place-based work. Their work is a model for inquiry into space.
Overcoming a Culture of Silence
See how teachers and students in Tulsa, OK, led by teacher leaders at the Oklahoma State University Writing Project, worked together in a year-long project to learn about and teach others the hard history of the Tulsa Race Massacre. The students’ digital projects suggest tools that we all could use to work together on projects even when schooling is hybrid or remote. 
Meet the Team
The WRITE Center is proud to introduce three new members to our Advisory Board. Dr. Guadalupe Valdés of Stanford University, Dr. David E. Kirkland of New York University, and Dr. Maisha T. Winn of the University of California, Davis will contribute to the WRITE Center's goals in supporting teachers with tools and strategies to create equity-centered approaches to improve students' writing.
Thank You!
Our team at the WRITE Center would like to thank everyone who participated in our first webinar series. We continue to work towards expanding our support to the nation's educators. Most webinar replays and materials are available here.
3,700 teachers, faculty, and educational leaders joined these webinars!
Access the webinars and materials by visiting our resource page below.
Dr. Troy Hicks
Carol Jago
Jim Burke
(Webinar replay not available)
Kelly Gallagher
Be Our Guest Blogger
Do you want to share your thoughts, ideas, or experiences with other educators? Be our guest! We are currently accepting submissions for our blog.

Find our guidelines below.
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