Learning from People’s Stories
Join us in this interactive professional development workshop featuring speakers and content from Local Learning, Vermont Folklife, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, New York Folklore, the Veterans History Project, and the Library of Congress.
Pre-Register Today to Hold Your Spot
Saturday, October 18, 2025
(with add-on events Friday night and Sunday for GA Teachers interested in potential PLUs Credit Hours*)
Crowne Plaza Atlanta Midtown, 8:30 am-3:00 pm
Cost: $25 for Teachers and Educational Staff, including paraprofessionals /$425 non-member rate for the full conference
Pre-register today to hold your spot for no fee. Payment will be requested in August, 2025. (The workshop is free for registered conference attendees of the Oral History Association or American Folklore Society meetings.)
Local Learning is hosting a workshop for K-12 and teachers focusing on building and accessing oral history and ethnographic primary sources in the classroom. Over the past four years, Local Learning has worked collaboratively with partners across the nation to use American Folklife Center (AFC) collections of the Library of Congress to engage, inspire, and inform learners of all ages through their significant Teaching with Primary Sources education program.
This day-long event will include concurrent sessions featuring Oral History content from 8:30-10:00, a poster session featuring curriculum and content from the TPS partners/Consortium (which includes members around the U.S.), and plenary sessions with both interactive activities and guest speakers from 10:30 am-3:00 pm. The plenary program will feature speakers from Local Learning, Vermont Folklife, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, New York Folklore, the Veterans History Project, and the Library of Congress.
* Local Learning does not offer PLUs for certificate renewal with the Georgia Professional Standards Commission. According to GaPSC rule 505-2-.36, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC) only accepts PLUs from conference attendance under certain guidelines. What might be of benefit to you is having a certificate of attendance, which Local Learning is willing to provide after your attendance is verified and if you indicate that you will be requesting this certificate in their registration. The responsibility for determining credit eligibility is with the teacher. Those who need to accumulate 10 hours of PD for credit may opt in through their registration to add on a lecture by Dr. Bettina Love on Friday night and to complete a written component (based upon PL Goals) that will be submitted to Local Learning.