Notice of Funding Availability
Periodically, subject to funding, the Library of Congress issues Notices of Funding Availability to interested school districts, universities, library systems and other educational organizations, inviting to them to apply for grants to become members of the Teaching with Primary Sources Educational Consortium. Consortium members assist the Library in designing and implementing the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS). This national professional development program helps K-12 teachers build their students’ literacy, critical thinking skills and content knowledge with engaging, high-quality instruction based on the Library of Congress collection of 13.5 million digitized primary sources. The Library has issued this NOFA to recruit an institutional partner in one of the following states: Connecticut, Massachusetts or Rhode Island.
The deadline for submitting proposals is March 12th.
To apply, please refer to the document linked below:
TPS Regional Grant Program
The Library of Congress works with school districts, library systems, universities, foundations, cultural institutions and other educational organizations to increase access to the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program to teachers across the United States.
Educational organizations operating in U.S. states, where there are no TPS Consortium Members, can apply for small $5,000 to $15,000 grants to incorporate Teaching with Primary Sources methods and materials into their ongoing professional development for teachers.
Grantees use these funds in a variety of ways to strengthen their existing programs with a focus on accessing and effectively using the Library’s digitized collections. For example:
- An historical society in Massachusetts created teaching materials and curriculum units based on primary sources from their own collection as well as the Library of Congress collection, From Slavery to Freedom. Later, they incorporated TPS methods and materials into a professional development program that shows teachers how to teach these units more effectively.
- A school district in Alaska included a TPS workshop in its annual professional development program, which showed teachers working on a Teaching American History grant how to navigate www.loc.gov and strengthen their pedagogical use of digitized primary sources.
- A university in Kentucky modified its undergraduate and graduate teaching methods courses offered to pre- and in-service teachers to incorporate the use of primary sources from the Library of Congress.
For more information about granting criteria, please contact the TPS coordinator for your region.
TPS Eastern Region
Coordinator: Barbara Kirby, bkirby@waynesburg.edu
Waynesburg University
51 West College St.
Waynesburg, PA 15370
(724) 852-3388
Connecticut • Delaware • District of Columbia • Florida • Georgia • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New York • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • Vermont • Virginia • West Virginia
TPS Midwestern Region
Coordinator: Richard Satchwell, resatch@ilstu.edu
Illinois State University
Milner Library
Campus Box 8900
Normal, IL 61790
(309) 438-3441
Alabama • Arkansas • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Nebraska • North Carolina • Ohio • Oklahoma • Tennessee • Wisconsin
TPS Western Region
Coordinator: Peggy O'Neill-Jones, oneilljp@mscd.edu
Metropolitan State College of Denver
P.O. Box 173362
Campus Box 35
Denver, CO 80217
(303) 556-4821
Alaska • Arizona • California • Colorado • Hawaii • Idaho • Montana • Nevada • New Mexico • North Dakota • Oregon • South Dakota • Texas • Utah • Washington • Wyoming
