Teaching with Folk Sources-Tulsa 2025
Join us in Tulsa! The Local Learning Teaching with Primary Sources...
Oral History in Interpretation and Museum Education
Join us! Local Learning joins Vermont Folklife and Washington State Parks to share resources from our Teaching with Primary Sources collaboration, “Teaching with Folk Sources.” This educational program will particularly focus upon using oral history materials in...
Educational Reparations and Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre
Updated with Registration Link! Oklahoma educators have been reading Dr. Bettina Love's texts, We Want to do More than Survive and Punished for Dreaming, while also engaging in the supporting album to the text Punished for Dreaming, produced by Dr. Stevie "View"...
Sound Recordings as Primary Sources
Learning with the Vermont Folklife Archive and Teaching with Primary Sources Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 3:30 - 5:30 pm EST This workshop is FREE thanks to generous funding from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program. When you think about primary...
The Power of Story: A Museum Study of Art, Activism, and Narrative
Local Learning is partnering with Art In Motion School in Chicago to support a Museum Studies Professional Development workshop Saturday, May 4, for the REACH project, funded through a Department of Education grant awarded to the Distinctive Schools Network and...
Local Learning Botkin Lecture
The American Folklife Center's latest Botkin Lecture video features Paddy and Lisa. In "Teaching Culture, Teaching Culturally: The Significance of Folklife Education in the Schools" they present an overview of folklore in K-12 education in the U.S. They also discuss...
Teaching with Folk Sources at HistoryMiami Museum
HistoryMiami Museum (HMM) will facilitate a section of a teacher professional development workshop that will focus on Cuban immigration curriculum content. This workshop is part of a larger multi-day event for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Teachers will work with...
New Teaching with Folk Sources workshops announced in Vermont
Presentations and Workshops are planned throughout the spring and summer. Check back here for updates and new offerings. Monday, August 21, 2023 | Barre, Vermont at the Vermont History Center One-day professional learning worksho for educators about teaching with...
Capital Region Primary Sources Workshop 2023
Culture, Community, and the Classroom: Teaching with Primary Sources Wednesday, April 19, 3:30-6:30pm Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, NY In this workshop, middle- and high-school educators will learn how to teach using primary sources drawn from their...
Multiple Perspectives & Counter Narratives in Vermont’s Food System
Inspired by The Mostly Costly Journey, Vermont Folklife and our partners at Shelburne Farms are offering an afternoon workshop exploring counter narratives in food systems grounded in Vermont. Multiple Perspectives and Counter Narratives in Vermont’s Food System is a...