Get content you won’t find anywhere else—news, resources, PD + other opportunities & more—with this monthly curated collection of updates from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program and the TPS Consortium. Click the image above to delve into the October Update. Then consider subscribing to this monthly newsletter.
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TPS Consortium Update January 2026
Get content you won’t find anywhere else—news, resources, PD + other opportunities & more—with this monthly curated collection of updates from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program and the TPS Consortium. Click the image above to delve into the January Update. Then consider subscribing to this monthly newsletter.
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TPS Consortium Update July 2025
Get content you won’t find anywhere else—news, resources, PD + other opportunities & more—with this monthly curated collection of updates from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program and the TPS Consortium. Click the image above to delve into the July Update. Then consider subscribing to this monthly newsletter.
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TPS Spotlight: Let’s Talk Books with Meg Medina & Friends
Primarily intended for families and children between the ages of 9-12, and for librarians and educators, this dynamic 18-segment series is part of Medina’s “Cuéntame!: Let’s Talk Books!” platform, which encourages children and their families to engage in fun and lively conversations about books. In each “Let’s Talk Books!” video filmed in unique spaces at the Library…
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TPS Spotlight: Resources for Civic Learning
Today, more than ever, we need a fully engaged and informed citizenry to participate in shaping and determining the direction of the United States. The Barat Education Foundation (BEF) has long been committed to civic literacy in the classroom environment, realizing that it can quickly spread to the surrounding school community while enhancing school culture…
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TPS Spotlight: Library of Congress Self-Paced Professional Development
The first two modules in a series of learning and practicing strategies for teaching with primary sources recently launched on the Library’s Teachers site. Each module is self-contained, plays from a web browser, and can be completed in one hour or less. Educators who compete a module in one session—the system does not save progress—will…
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TPS Spotlight: Crossroads of History Project
The Northwest Council for Computer Education developed the Crossroads of History project, which allows learners to use primary sources and social justice standards to conduct meaningful dialogue and inspire informed actions that give voice to marginalized communities, thanks to a Teaching with Primary Sources regional grant from the TPS Western Region. Participants first completed an on-demand course comprising best practices…
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Library Spotlight: A Poem a Day from the Laureate
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Ada Limón will be the guest editor for the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series weekdays during April. Of the 20 poems Limón chose for the series, she said, “I wanted poems that felt like they had a life to them; that they were expansive in some way; that they were reaching out…
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On Your Time Learning: NEA TPS Micro-credentials
Citizen U has developed a series of 8 micro-credentials (MCs) in a partnership with the National Education Association (NEA) and thanks to the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources TPS program grant. This professional learning offering aims to help educators better integrate inquiry learning with primary sources into instruction across grades and disciplines using…
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TPS Spotlight: Teaching with Primary Sources in the Elementary Classroom
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville collaborated with several Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium partners including Emerging America, Mars Hill University, and the TPS Midwest Region to offer a “just in time” online professional development course titled Teaching with Primary Sources in the Elementary Classroom. This online asynchronous course integrates classroom footage of teachers and librarians…
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TPS Spotlight: Read.Inquire.Write.
Developed in partnership with middle school social studies teachers, Read.Inquire.Write. (RIW) supports students in inquiry and argument writing in social studies. All resources are free, thanks to a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, but access to specific materials requires a free teacher account. As students progress through investigations in…
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TPS Spotlight: Journalism in Action
Explore the ways the free press has covered major events in history dating back to the American Revolution with PBS NewsHour EXTRA’s interactive Journalism in Action: Civic Engagement and Primary Sources Through Key Moments in History, a website supported by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program. Fun, engaging civic…
