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Category: Interviews with Experts

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Living the Dream: Reflections on a Year as Library of Congress Teacher in Residence

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

In my first blog post as Teacher in Residence, I set a number of goals: to connect primary sources to literature, to create research questions to advance inquiry, and to foster library skills. I was able to meet these goals in a number of ways and to reach out to teachers and librarians with approaches to working with primary sources and teaching research skills.

Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Teaching Strategies

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Sentiments of an American (History) Teacher: Primary Sources and the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

This summer, attending the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute took me back to the “awe” of history. Seeing the diary entry from the night President Lincoln was shot, and being able to see the emotion in the writing…You don’t get that in a transcript or in a modified document.

Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Women's History