Participants

Grant contact: Nancy Cole, Education Director, Martha's Vineyard Museum

There: Primary Sources in the Classroom will provide face-to-face and on-line professional development workshops for teachers and librarians. These workshops will introduce participants to the wealth of primary sources, lesson plans, programs and virtual workshops available through the Library of Congress and teach them skills to effectively search and access appropriate materials to use with their classes.

The program intends to provide professional development workshops for Martha’s Vineyard educators and librarians in accessing and using primary sources to teach. It will also provide classroom support for teachers who develop and test curriculum materials using primary sources. The project will be presented in three phases, targeting two groups of participants. The project will utilize the technology labs and classroom spaces in the schools to present the workshops.

Grant contact: Charles O’Bryan, DCMO BOCES, School Library System Coordinator

The Delaware Chenango Madison Otsego (DCMO) Board of Cooperative Education Services (BOCES) serves over 15,000 public and 500 private school students from 16 public and 2 private school districts. The targeted audience for the primary sources grant is comprised of the 42+ school library media specialists, or teacher/librarians currently working in their component districts.

Additionally, adjoining BOCES’ (BT and ONC) librarians are invited to participate in training. Coordinated offerings were also offered through the Teacher’s Center affiliated with the State University of New York, College of Oneonta . The Teacher’s Center offers professional development to component district’s teachers and to students in teacher training programs.

Grant contact: Christine Woyshner, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Education

This project seeks to develop teaching approaches using primary source materials on the Library of Congress Website. Such approaches will be rich and complex, and will contribute to higher order thinking skills as they draw on the key historical heuristics of sourcing, corroboration, and contextualization.

The ideas for this grant were developed in two stages:

First, from 2004-2006 the principal investigator was part of a three-venue museum exhibition that examined images of women in art and history. She served on the educational advisory board for the project, titled “Picturing Women,” led by Dr. Susan Shifrin, Associate Director for Education, Berman Museum of Art, and Assistant Professor of Art History, Ursinus College (see http://www.picturingwomen.org).

Second, following her tenure on the board, Dr. Woyshner has extended the educational dimension of the Picturing Women project into her work as a social studies researcher and teacher educator at Temple University. This second stage, which is currently underway, involves research, publication, and teaching along the lines of the ideas developed under the tutelage of Dr. Shifrin and with other members of the advisory board.

Ann B. Canning, Ed.D., Professor of Education (retired), Waynesburg University

Manchester Academic Charter School Student Projects

The Poetry and Art of Liverpool Street Landmarks
A Collection of Sketches and Poems by Manchester Academic Charter School Students

During this neighborhood walking tour of the historic Manchester neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , one hundred elementary school students examined architectural details of landmark buildings that were built in the 1870s.  Back in their classroom they wrote poetry and drew charcoal sketches from photographs of those same buildings.  This project was sponsored by the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation.  Funding was provided by the Alfred M. Oppenheimer Memorial Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

Growing Up In Manchester

This oral history project brought 7th and 8th grade students from the Manchester Academic Charter School and senior residents of their neighborhood together. In the interviews, students learned about the economic, political and social changes that occurred in this urban community over the past 75 years. Short documentary videos were made using local and national primary source documents archived at Historic Pittsburgh and the Library of Congress.

Grant contact: Tameka Bradley Hobbs, Program and Education Coordinator, The Library of Virginia

The “Shaping the Constitution” (STC) module will serve as a prototype for a possible series of educational products designed to introduce the wealth of the collections of both the Library of Congress and the Library of Virginia to K-12 audiences, in a compelling, interactive, and accessible form. The module will be designed to be delivered as an interactive web site with the main focus of examining and interpreting primary source documents, with up to 40 archival documents to be presented within the module.

Grant contact: Dr. Monica Brooks, Associate Dean of Libraries

The Marshall University Teaching with Primary Sources project will engage 10-12 members of the College of Liberal Arts faculty, several members of the library faculty, and the library’s Information Literacy program in a collaboration that will enhance teaching and learning during the 2007-08 academic year and beyond.

Promoting expansion of the use of primary sources, the MU TPS project will provide faculty with a professional development opportunity that will improve course content and student exposure to resources among the Library of Congress’s expansive collections.