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Newsletter
November 30, 2020
New Webinar Offerings!
Using the Notice and Note Signposts to Create Empowered Readers—Even at a Distance (webinar unavailable for replay)
December 10
Kylene Beers & Bob Probst
Cultivating Genius and Joy: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy (webinar unavailable for replay)
March 17
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
What Works Best for Lteracy Instruction? Visible Learning for Literacy in History/Social Studies and ELA
April 15
Dr. Doug Fisher
Highlights from our Blog
Dr. Shakil Rabbi is our guest blogger this month. Dr. Rabbi writes about how his students engage in "flash presentations," and how these recordings offer him opportunities to give feedback to students early in their writing process.
The UCIHP strives to help teachers integrate primary sources into history instruction so that students can engage with texts like historians. Learn about workshops and remote teaching resources.
Review Dr. Troy Hicks' webinar on purposeful arcs of writing instruction and what they look like in his classroom. This blog offers a recap of a two-hour webinar.
WRITE Center Newsroom
Read news about the WRITE Center community on our Newsroom web page.
David Kirkland featured in NCTE's Council Chronicle: "A Joy-Based Reimagining of English/Literacy Education is Attainable"
November 2020- David Kirkland, advisory board member, is interviewed for NCTE's quarterly subscription Council Chronicle. He responds to the following questions: What concerns you most as you think about your students and what they’re facing this year?, What would you name as a surprise or unexpected discovery from this challenging year?, What self-care or coping strategies are you finding most valuable?, and What makes you hopeful?
Resources from the National Writing Project
Indulging our Wanderlust through “Geo-Inquiry” and Writing
Geography, the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments, seeks to understand where things are, why they are there, and how they develop change over time. This NWP Radio broadcast shares about the National Geographic Society’s Geo-Inquiry process which asks students to approach their work and writing with a geographic lens.
Passion Projects as Credit Recovery
Be inspired by this story of a group of teachers who worked to troubleshoot an outdated “packet-heavy” credit recovery system by pairing project-based learning with students’ own career ambitions. Using a design-thinking approach and engaging community members, they piloted a program that works when their schools went remote and even more students needed a way to recover credit. How might this approach support students in your community?
Be Our Guest Blogger
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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 pursues its goal of improving secondary students' 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 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