Here's a Google Doc I put together for a recent workshop I helped to co-facilitate at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI. The theme of the workshop was "History on Wheels: Technology and Innovation in America's Auto Industry" and was sponsored by the National Council for History Education (NCHE).

I'm sharing because I tried to be transparent with participants about where I found materials. I also used it as an anchor doc to return to throughout the workshop when I needed teachers to access something specific.

I've shared a similar document from an NCHE workshop I co-facilitated a few years ago on NASA and space.

I hope these are helpful!

If you are interested in professional development this summer, please consider applying to the National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks Workshop The Long Road From Brown, which focuses on school desegregation after Brown v. Board in Virginia.

This NEH workshop is the forerunner for a TPS Workshop titled "The Local and the Global: School Desegregation in the Context of U.S. History." We select our TPS participants largely from the applicant pool of the NEH workshop participants to support them for an extended period on how to best incorporate primary sources in their civil rights teaching.

I have also linked our January Newsletter which provides full lesson plans that can be used directly in the classroom as well as articles that will hopefully stimulate strategies for approaching hate and racism in the classroom.
Thank you for your time!

Dates: July 12-17 and July 26-31, 2020
Location: Richmond, VA
Application Deadline: March 1, 2020
Stipend: $1,200

Website: https://sites.wp.odu.edu/thelongroadfrombrown/

Information: https://sites.wp.odu.edu/thelongroadfrombrown/wp-content/uploads/sites/16492/2019/12/NEH-Workshops_LRFB.pdf

January Newsletter: https://sites.wp.odu.edu/thelongroadfrombrown/wp-content/uploads/sites/16492/2020/02/LRFB-Newsletter-January-2020.pdf

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In a session at the 2019 TPS Eastern Region Conference in Pittsburgh about the power of the TPS Teachers Network. I was reminded that this would be a great place to share some resources I put together as part of my participation in the conference.

Here's a document I created with resources from two sessions I facilitated at the conference:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQGTWpKd3KtLdoapD0qu1Sk5vb1HGDllup9tACztjgQ

The guiding questions for these two sessions are below:

• As we construct maps, models, and historical narratives, what decisions are we making about what and whom to include in our explanations and arguments?
• How might teachers and their students:
  • use primary sources and students’ questions to spark multiple/parallel inquiry trajectories?
  • leverage discipline-specific tools and traditions (i.e., science, engineering, history, civics, arts) to deepen and respond to those inquiries?
  • connect classroom learning to taking informed action in the broader community?

In this document you'll find: (1) Session titles and guiding questions, (2) slideshow, (3) links to resources I created as well as relevant resources from the LOC, (4) links to routines I used, (5) possible classroom inquiry questions that might be used with the items we engaged with, and (6) relevant TPS Teacher Learning Goals.

I've used this format for another workshop and shared it in a previous discussion thread: https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/tps-professional-development-facilitators/structure-for-sharing-facilitator-resources-from-tpsncheamf-workshop-on-nasa-and-aviation?cid=49979

I was also so excited to see Ann Rivera use this format for her presentation today, too, to share more about her work with teachers on argumentation.

I'm writing to share my plans from a three-day workshop we've just completed at the Kennedy Space Center, funded by TPS, sponsored by the National Center for History Education, and hosted by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation.

Specifically, I decided to be more transparent with teachers about (1) teacher learning goals for each session [from TPS]; (2) key LOC resources I was using [which I tried to pull from a range of places, including Teacher Blog, Primary Source Sets, Collections, Topics in Chronicling America]; (3) focus questions for the resources that might guide classroom use of the resources we were working with; (4) links to strategies I emphasized during the workshop [e.g., Visible Thinking Routines]; and (5) links to the slideshows and item lists I created for the workshop [so teachers can quickly find the resources or even use some of the prompts for their classrooms or PD facilitation they might do]. Here's the document I shared with teachers (and that I want you to have too!)

Most of the session designs were inspired by LOC / TPS materials from the Professional Development Builder. 

I'd love to hear your thoughts...what else might we put-all-in-one-place for teachers so that they can refer to it once our workshops are done?

(Thanks to  Tom Bober for feedback on an early draft.)

For whatever reason, the share to another group feature is not working. I have created my album so far in the group I facilitate on the network - TPS Mississippi.

Here is a link to the album: https://tpsteachersnetwork.org/album/42909-chinese-immigration-and-chinese-exclusion-act

I am doing this now because I will be out of the country during week 5. 

Instructions below are also on this googledoc.

1. When creating a new discussion, in the Discussion Message box, click on the Insert/Edit Image button above the text box 

2. After you have clicked that button, you will see the Insert/Edit Image pop up window.

3. Copy and paste the URL of your image into the “Source” section. At the URL it must include .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, or .png. Hint: If you right click an image on the web, click "Copy Image Address".

For example: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/18700/18772v.jpg

4. If you want to use a picture that is on your computer or does not have a unique URL, upload it to Imgur.com or search for the image on Google to see if someone else has uploaded it to the web already.

5. You can set the alignment of the image by clicking on it and using the    left, center, or right alignment buttons in the discussion box.

6. If the image is too big, click on the image in the Discussion Message text editor. Click and hold a corner and drag your cursor to resize as shown below. It will automatically resize the image with a fixed ratio.

7. If you are not sure whether or not your image is big or small enough, save the discussion and see how it looks. You can always click on the gear icon then “Edit Discussion” on the top right of your discussion post to edit the size of the image.

See below:

8. To make it easy for TPS Teachers Network members to find any loc.gov image you have inserted, remember to copy and paste the URL of the About this Item page below the image.

And yes! You can upload gifs too! 

How do you plan to incorporate the new list of professional development video clips into your online or face to face workshops now that the online modules are being retired? We have just launched a revised TPS Basics online class  (see link below) and are looking for some feedback.

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