Bringing the World's Largest Library to Colorado Classrooms

Teaching with Primary Sources – Colorado Rural Partnership provides free professional development to teachers and library-media specialists through funding from the Library of Congress. Targeting schools in the rural and outlying areas of Colorado, we introduce educators to the vast online resources of the Library of Congress - more than 13 million digitized primary sources, as well as teaching resources designed by educators for educators.

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Essentials Exploration

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Project Mission
The mission of the Teaching with Primary Sources program from the Library of Congress is to:

• equip teachers to embed digital primary sources from the Library of Congress into standards-based curricula
• support teachers in curriculum-driven meaningful technology integration
• encourage and empower teachers to deepen students’ content understanding and enhance critical thinking and literacy skills through the integration of primary source investigations into instruction

Colorado Rural Partnership, based at University of Northern Colorado, extends this mission locally to provide Teaching with Primary Sources professional development, resources and support to K-12 educators in rural and outlying areas of Colorado and to support faculty instruction for pre-service teachers.

Colorado’s 184 school districts serve approximately 800,000 students, with the top 20 districts educating 75% of those students. The goal of the Teaching with Primary Sources - Colorado Rural Partnership is to reach the smaller outlying 164 districts which educate the remaining 25% of students.