Write Your Stories

Write Your Stories is a Teaching with Primary Sources professional development program that equips teachers with practical daily teaching strategies that support students in developing the writing skills in using evidence from primary sources to support inferences and creating digital documentaries that to share research on literacy strengths in communities of the past and present.

We will develop strategies for:

1. using primary sources to support inferences and illustrate events,

2. expand our knowledge of the importance of literacy in our local and communities across the United States, and

3. engaging students in digital documentaries as a means to develop and celebrate literacy skills, creativity, and historical knowledge.

The historical context that we will explore is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954). Our professional development enables teachers to learn the history of education and teaching in the United States while developing essential teaching strategies to ensure all learners are learning every day.

We use teaching with primary sources strategies to achieve these goals of historical knowledge, inclusive pedagogy (i.e. differentiated instruction), and greater understanding of how the past shapes our present and how we might use our teaching to imagine a more equitable future.

Our free modules will be available during the 2024 school year. We look forward to you joining us.