Newsletter
December 18, 2020
Happy holidays from the WRITE Center!
We need your input to design the 2021 summer learning series.
Upcoming Webinars
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
In 2020, we provided 11 free webinars! To access exclusive resources, complete this brief form.
Highlights from our Blog
How can teachers invite students to critically think about what are they reading and writing? In this blog, we introduce Dr. Kylene Beers and Dr. Bob Probst's powerful strategies, the Notice and Note signposts.
On 7/22/2020, Jim Burke shared ways teachers can be responsive to students' interests by designing purposeful academic writing assignments.
On 7/8/2020, Kelly Gallagher facilitated a webinar on narrative writing. Although Gallagher's webinar is unavailable for viewing, this blog offers a recap of the resources shared by Gallagher and other members of our learning community.
In 2020, we published 34 blogs! To read the blogs on a variety of topics, visit our blog library.
Resources from the National Writing Project
The Write Time: A Celebration of Teachers and Writers
Candace is interviewed by Ohio Writing Project (OWP) teacher-leader Megan Rodney. Megan is a former second- and third-grade teacher, and is currently the Elementary PD Lead with OWP.
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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