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Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress, Teaching with Primary Sources, Northern Virginia (TPSNVA) serves K-12 teachers throughout Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax and Falls Church schools as well as other Virginia school systems. TPSNVA provides free professional development programs to connect teachers to the Library's rich, digitized primary source materials and resources to help teachers design challenging, high-quality instruction.
Register below to take a free course, workshop or institute for recertification
and endorsement points.
December 16, 2013 – Library of Congress Visit for Teachers
December 19, 2013 – Teaching with Primary Sources in the Advanced Acad
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Snow Day and Emily Dickinson
See primary source activities ideas for your classroom at the Library of Congress Teacher blog and combine with primary source sets for American authors and voila! - A rich lesson based on inquiry and critical thinking skills.
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Happy Thanksgiving from TPSNVA
See Library of Congress resources on Thanksgiving foods during the Civil War and The Great American Potluck for recipes brought to America by immigrants from across the globe.
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Sherry Levitt, Executive Director
Email: sherry@tpsnva.org
Cynthia Szwajkowski, Ph.D
Assistant Director
Email: cynthia@tpsnva.org
Phone: 703-294-6270
Address: 11244 Waples Mill Rd, G-2, Fairfax, VA 22030
This Issue's Theme:
Primary Sources and the Common Core State Standards
This issue illustrates how primary sources can support teaching to meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
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