The Virginia Geographic Alliance is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $20,000 Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant to help fund the professional development program – Placing Primary Sources. Placing Primary Sources will be a tiered professional development program focused on capacity building, curriculum development, professional development, and sustainability. The project’s goals include:
- Recruit and train 6 TPS Teacher Scholars to serve as TPS ArcGIS Online Story Map curriculum authors.
- Inform and train 75+ classroom teachers in TPS Phase I resources, skills, and techniques.
- Research, design, and publish 10-12 best practice Teaching with Primary Sources Story Maps
- Design and deliver multiple professional development trainings based on TPS Story Maps and TSP Phase I resources, skills, and techniques.
- Publish an online gallery of story maps and lesson plans via VGA’s website.
- Share and disseminate the story maps and curriculum in the form of conference presentations, webinars, and articles.
The project will run from January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018.
