Earlier this month, I spoke with Dr. Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, about a wide variety of topics. As I kicked off our conversation, I was thinking about the first activity I do with my new kindergartners each fall. We engage in a show and tell of items in the students’ backpacks. This one activity gives me an awareness and understanding of the boys and girls unlike any other.
The Library of Congress launched a new home page last month. In case you missed our announcement in early November, we'd like to take a tour of new features. We are really excited about this new design because it allows us to highlight more of the resources that are available for you.
Greetings, neonis! We're thrilled to announce that Chapter Two of "The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon" is now online for your reading and listening pleasure and participation.
We are excited that the National Council of Social Studies Conference will be meeting in Washington, D.C., December 2-4. The Library of Congress Educational Outreach Team and Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) partners are looking forward to meeting with you and sharing ideas on using primary sources in the classroom.
This year National Council of Teachers of English will host their annual conference from November 17-20 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. Will you be there? We will!
Award-winning author Tonya Bolden will discuss her research and writing processes as part of her keynote address for the second annual Library of Congress online conference for educators, Discover and Explore with Library of Congress Primary Sources, on October 25th at 4:00 ET.
Founded in 1908, the National Press Club has more than a hundred years of history. The Library of Congress has recently made available recordings from National Press Club talks that span four decades in a presentation "Food for Thought: Presidents, Prime Ministers, and Other National Press Club Luncheon Speakers, 1954-1989.” Bringing pieces of these talks into the classroom allows students to hear a perspective on a particular event and make connections to historical events or events of today.
This is a cross posting of a blog post from the Poetry and Literature Center written by Anne Holmes Cover by Juana Medina Our energy is truly buzzing today as we debut “The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon,” U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s second-term online project. “Catalina Neon” is a bilingual, illustrated, narrative poem …
This summer, Educational Outreach staff and panels of colleagues, from in and outside of the Library, reviewed 81 proposals submitted in response to a nationwide search for organizations interested in joining the TPS Consortium with new and exciting ways to reach teachers across the county.
