Professional Education

Apply to attend a 5-day onsite professional development program at Mount Vernon that delivers inclusive 18th-century content, inquiry-based classroom resources, and best practice strategies for connecting Washington and the diversity of the 18th century to students’ lives today. All educators (K-12) in a formal school setting are eligible to attend. We seek and welcome applications Read More ⟶

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is pleased to announce multiple in-person and online professional development programs for educators in summer 2023! Explore all of our summer PD opportunities for K–12 educators: Seven teacher symposiums, 12 online teacher seminars, weeklong in-person teacher seminars. Applications open Dec. 1 for K-8 teachers to explore “The Making Read More ⟶

Join the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., for a free three-day professional development workshop, where you’ll learn and practice strategies for using primary sources with K-12 students. Three sessions will be offered: July 5-7, July 12-14, July 17-19. In each session, Library of Congress education specialists will model a variety of hands-on, inquiry-based teaching Read More ⟶

Street Law is accepting applications for its 2023 Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers. The deadline is March 1, 2023. Each year, Street Law selects 60 teachers to come to Washington for six days of educational activities that strengthen and expand instruction about the U.S. Supreme Court. Teachers participate in sessions led by Supreme Court Read More ⟶

Get ready for Constitution Day with primary sources, classroom activities, and programs from the National Archives! In this interactive virtual professional development workshop from 7-8 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 8, you will explore how to make teaching the Constitution hands-on and relevant to students’ lives with text analysis activities, primary sources, and online teaching Read More ⟶

Explore the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s new “Classroom-Ready” American History Professional Development series. Held on Zoom last year, the series is now available as classroom-ready PD modules. The exciting How Did We Get Here? professional development series is designed to provide teachers with resources on topics in American history that are front-and-center in current events. Each Read More ⟶

Teaching American History is hosting three multi-day seminars this fall. Each promises to immerse teacher participants in a long weekend of discussion and exploration in a specific topic in American history. Topics and locations include: Religious Liberty and the American Founding, October 7-9 in Washington, D.C.; The American Sense of Identity in New England: Late Read More ⟶

K–12 educators, join the National Archives for an online summer workshop series! Each two-hour program will explore how to use primary sources to delve into the big ideas of the founding documents. During each interactive session, participants will engage with primary sources and partake in collaborative group work and discussion to discover how to use Read More ⟶

Apply now to join the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. for a 2½ day free professional development workshop, where you’ll learn and practice strategies for using primary sources with K-12 students. In each session, Library of Congress education specialists will model a variety of hands-on, inquiry-based teaching strategies for using primary sources to engage Read More ⟶

Register for Share My Lesson’s 2022 Virtual Conference on March 21-24. Nearly 50 free, for-credit professional development webinars are offered. Attendees will hear from top-notch presenters including ADL, American Psychological Association, Barbara Blackburn, WETA’s Colorín Colorado, Girl Rising, Library of Congress, National Constitution Center, National Indian Education Association, NewsGuard, Next Gen Personal Finance, Random House, Read More ⟶