Digitally Writing New Histories: Rethinking Professional Learning with Primary Sources and Museum Partnerships

The Digitally Writing New Histories professional learning experience, sponsored as a Library of Congress regional Teaching with Primary Sources project in 2020-21, invited 20 teachers to learn about primary source methods while also partnering with over a dozen museum educators throughout Michigan for virtual visits. Through their work, this cohort developed inquiry-based unit plans that focused intently on the use of Library of Congress digitized sources in the lessons, as well as inviting students to create digital products from these sources. In this session, five educators involved in the project will describe the virtual professional learning experience as well as the units that they created.