2025 SOURCES Conference Program
Saturday, January 18, 2025
(pdf version of the program will be posted here once ready)
8:30 – 9:00 am - Registration and Light Breakfast
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 9:50 am - Welcome and General Session
Primary Sources Will Save the World
Jessica Ellison
Executive Director
National Council for History Education
We have all witnessed the superpowers of primary sources when they're in the hands of our students. Primary sources' superpowers can also be tapped for educators, to help us address challenges outside our schools, inside our schools, and inside our own heads. Let's discuss how we can employ primary sources as beacons of light, fortresses of strength, harbingers of hope, and sanctuaries of truth, for the good of our learners and our educational communities.
Jessica earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in News-Editorial Journalism at Drake University and her Master of Arts in Public History at St. Cloud State University. From 2004-2022, Jessica was a teacher educator at the Minnesota Historical Society, where she developed and delivered professional development for hundreds of teachers around Minnesota and the country. Currently, Jessica serves on the board of the National Social Studies Leaders Association and is serving a second term on her local school board. She began serving as the Executive Director of the NCHE in December of 2022. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and their four kids.
10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations
Stories Lives Tell
Laurie Boulden
Warner University
Through the use of personal narrative, primary sources, thinking routines, and language arts strategies, students get to engage with social studies content.
Virtue, Rules, and Civic Superstars: Using Historical Narrative and Primary Sources to Build a Community of Learning
Laurie Risler
Westfield State University
Explore how inquiry-based learning, nonfiction picture books, and the investigation of primary sources can be used to teach, practice, and evaluate civic behaviors with young learners.
Getting Nast-y with Political Cartoons in your classroom!
Lori Rech
Chris Janson
Bill of Rights Institute
Help students understand history through political cartoons. Explore techniques for interpretation and analysis, opening a new world of primary documents. Empower students to grasp historical concepts effectively.
Illustrating History: Integrating Comic Art as Primary and Secondary Sources in Social Science Education
Robert McIntosh
Seminole High School
Explore how comic art enhances social science education through two lessons: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and John Lewis's March, showcasing comics as both primary and secondary sources in the classroom.
Teaching the History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Using Primary Sources
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services
This session takes a historical approach to learning about the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process, treating the conflict as part of modern history that emerged over a century ago. Through primary sources and supplementary materials, participants will trace the development of the conflict from the late 19th century to the early 2000s, providing context for deep and nuanced understanding of this complicated topic.
Examining Diverse Historical Perspectives Through Poetry Using Socratic Inquiry
Kaitlyn Evans
Columbia College
This practice-based exploration of poetry as primary sources will examine multiple perspectives through Socratic formatting to investigate history through critical thinking, with time to debrief and apply knowledge.
11:00 - 11:50 - Session II Presentations
Reading into History: Integrating K-6 Book Talks with Primary Sources for Cross-Curricular Learning
Melissa Starkey
Central Baptist College
This session explores how K-6 educators can integrate literacy and social studies by pairing books and short novels with primary sources, creating engaging, cross-curricular lessons that deepen students' reading comprehension and historical understanding.
Primary Sources in Early Grades: Historical Literacy for Little Historians
Lori Rech
Chris Janson
Bill of Rights Institute
Engage your elementary classroom with innovative primary source integration inspired by BRI curriculum. Gain practical strategies, resources, and hands-on techniques for engaging historical inquiry and empowering students.
Engaging High School Students with Primary Sources: Critical Thinking and Content Mastery in U.S. History
Brian Furgione
University of Central Florida
Seminole County Public Schools
This session is designed for high school U.S. history teachers seeking to enhance student engagement and critical thinking by integrating primary sources into standards aligned lessons. Participants will explore strategies to help students analyze historical sources, justify conclusions, and develop deeper content knowledge within a high school history classroom.
History Mystery: Who Killed Lord Darnley?
Beverly Ledbetter
Saint Leo University
Using primary sources, participants will try to solve the murder. Working with maps, letters, and eyewitness accounts from 1567, can you solve the mystery of who killed Lord Darnley?
The Tampa History Project: Engaging Students Through Local Primary Sources
Brandon Austin
Hillsborough County Public Schools
Explore how the Tampa History Project engages students with local primary sources, fostering critical thinking and strengthening community ties through hands-on historical inquiry.
Using a Geography Lens to Analyze Primary Sources from the Holocaust
Ken Carano
Western Oregon University
Attendees investigate primary sources from the Holocaust to learn how geographic inquiry can produce a more critical understanding of time, place, and events when juxtaposed with teaching history.
Doing Local History through History’s Habits of Mind
Shauna Liverotti
Regina Holland
Bethany Norris
National Council for History Education
Explore History's Habits of Mind through local history! Engage in discussions, primary-source activities, and real-world examples to enhance how we teach and learn about local communities. Build intentional historical habits.
11:50 – 1:00 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:00- 1:50 pm - Session III Presentations
Inquiry into Soul City: Using Primary Sources to Uncover the Story of Soul City, North Carolina
Amy Good
University of North Carolina Charlotte
This session will provide participants with ideas for using primary sources to create inquiry-based experiences for a virtual field trip.
Teaching Local History with Primary Sources: A Case Study of Fort Monroe
Dalton Savage
National Council for History Education
Jeryl Payne
Paula Spencer
Alexandria City Public Schools
Geared toward elementary classrooms, this session will focus on teaching local history, pairing resources from the Library of Congress with picture books to tell the story of Fort Monroe, VA.
Women on the Homefront: A Multifaced Approach to Teach Gender Roles in World War II
Tatiana Mckinney-Stokes
Kent Denver School
This workshop explores women’s roles on the WWII Homefront, highlighting contributions, challenges, and societal shifts. Participants will learn to engage middle school students with critical discussions and interactive activities using key resources.
Using Primary Sources to Explore Themes of the Reconstruction Era and Its Legacies
Aimee Ballans
Facing History and Ourselves
Apryl Taylor
Orange County Public Schools
A variety of strategies guide exploration of Reconstruction Era themes such as: Defining Freedom, Healing and Justice after the Civil War, Reconstruction and Democracy, Backlash and the Fragility of Democracy.
Singing for Justice: Using Chicano Music to Teach Civic Engagement through Primary Sources
Debora Saavedra-Winch
Tina Heafner
University of North Carolina Charlotte
The presenters of this session will focus on how educators can use Chicano music, such as Cantos de miCantón, as primary sources to engage K-12 students in learning, foster critical thinking, and build content knowledge around civic engagement and cultural identity. The session will provide educators with strategies to analyze primary sources through the lens of Chicano music, helping students explore multiple perspectives on historical and contemporary civic movements. Participants will learn how to use tools from the Library of Congress and other resources to examine the role of music as a catalyst for activism and social change.
Exploring Strategies for Analyzing Primary Sources
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services
Primary sources expose students to multiple perspectives as well as help students develop critical inquiry skills. This interactive session will introduce teachers to a variety of source analysis tools and strategies to support their instruction.
2:00- 2:50 pm - Session IV Presentations
Cultural Heritage Celebrations: A Differentiated Scaffold Approach for Multilingual Learners Support in Inquiry-Based Learning
Lynette Batista-Sanchez
Lisa Cook
University of North Carolina
The increase in Multilingual Learners in U.S. schools underscores the need for effective strategies, combining inquiry-based learning and differentiated scaffolds to investigate local cultural events, content mastery, and civic pride.
What did Thomas Jefferson mean when he said "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?"
Amy Allen
Virginia Tech University
Sierra Sallah
Roanoke City Public Schools
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything" outlines many contradictions about Thomas Jefferson's life and career. How can we use primary sources with elementary students to critically investigate this idea?
Challenging Single Narratives in Virtual Spaces
Vernon Turner
University of South Carolina
Andrew Hogan
Five Virtual Program
This presentation focuses on identifying single narratives in Social Studies and how to present students with primary and secondary sources that generate new perspectives, challenging single narratives in virtual spaces.
Strategies for the Classroom
Meghan Farley
Seminole High School
This presentation introduces three classroom strategies (guided questioning, primary sandwiches, and SWBST) to help students effectively analyze and comprehend primary sources, enhancing historical understanding and critical thinking skills.
Watching Films Like a Historian
Matt Stevenson
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
This is a presentation of data collected on AP History teachers use of film in their classrooms as primary sources relating to the World Wars.
Using the Newspaper as a Primary Source
Jodi Pushkin
Florida Press Educational Services
A living textbook, the newspaper, as both a primary and secondary source, brings civics and history into the context of today's society with what's going on in the world.
Behind the Scenes: A Discussion on Activity Design & Creation with The History Center
Kendra Hazen
Griffon Binkowski
Lauren McLevey
Orange County Regional History Center
Do you LOVE the History Center? Curious about what WE do with our primary sources? Come hear from our former Assistant Curator of Education, one of our Museum Educators, and one of our Exhibits designers and find inspiration for your classroom as we share our process of creating hands-on activities for our K-12 field trips from the primary sources in our archives.
2:50 - 3:10 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:20 - 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations
Using Primary Sources to Support Text Connections and Authentic Writing Experiences in Social Studies Instruction
Abbie Bracelin
University of Central Florida
This presenter of this session will focus on the use of primary sources to support social studies writing. Instructional examples will be provided in using multiple primary sources to support students’ creativity and authenticity.
Religion + Politics in the Middle East
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services
Explore the Middle East and its complex and diverse religious landscape and consider a variety of ways that religion and politics are intertwined in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Iran.
A Slam Dunk: Using Sports Sources to Teach Political Topics
Jason Allen
Shepherd University
This presentation will focus on works (photos, political cartoons, videos, etc.) that highlight the connections between major sporting and political events (1960-Current).
Routines for Deeper Learning with Primary Sources
Rhonda Bondie
Hunter College - City University of New York
Teachers need practical routines and in-the-moment strategies that reliably move diverse initial student interest into deeper understanding. This workshop provides primary source learning routines that foster a sense of belonging by ensuring that all students can access and think critically about the information conveyed through a primary source. Participants will explore how teacher feedback builds student understanding and take away an activity for use with their own students.
What Was Common Knowledge? A Study of 19th Century Textbooks to Explore the Curriculum of American Common Schools
Jenni Sanguiliano Lonski
Rollins College
This presentation explores Common and Normal School textbooks to uncover the essential knowledge deemed necessary for success in Common Schools. These original texts illuminate key insights into the history of education in the United States and provide a deeper understanding of the educational values and practices of the time.
Navigating Primary Sources: Tools for Guiding English Language Learners and Reading Students Through Primary Source Analysis and Writing
Anne Hester
Robert Moor
East Lee County High School
An overview of strategies used to engage ELLs and those who have challenges in writing an analysis or description of a visual primary source.
(In Teaching Academy Lobby)
9:00- 9:50 am - Welcome and General Session
Primary Sources Will Save the World
Jessica Ellison
Executive Director
National Council for History Education
We have all witnessed the superpowers of primary sources when they're in the hands of our students. Primary sources' superpowers can also be tapped for educators, to help us address challenges outside our schools, inside our schools, and inside our own heads. Let's discuss how we can employ primary sources as beacons of light, fortresses of strength, harbingers of hope, and sanctuaries of truth, for the good of our learners and our educational communities.
Jessica earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in News-Editorial Journalism at Drake University and her Master of Arts in Public History at St. Cloud State University. From 2004-2022, Jessica was a teacher educator at the Minnesota Historical Society, where she developed and delivered professional development for hundreds of teachers around Minnesota and the country. Currently, Jessica serves on the board of the National Social Studies Leaders Association and is serving a second term on her local school board. She began serving as the Executive Director of the NCHE in December of 2022. She lives in Minnesota with her husband and their four kids.
10:00- 10:50 am - Session I Presentations
Stories Lives Tell
Laurie Boulden
Warner University
Through the use of personal narrative, primary sources, thinking routines, and language arts strategies, students get to engage with social studies content.
Virtue, Rules, and Civic Superstars: Using Historical Narrative and Primary Sources to Build a Community of Learning
Laurie Risler
Westfield State University
Explore how inquiry-based learning, nonfiction picture books, and the investigation of primary sources can be used to teach, practice, and evaluate civic behaviors with young learners.
Getting Nast-y with Political Cartoons in your classroom!
Lori Rech
Chris Janson
Bill of Rights Institute
Help students understand history through political cartoons. Explore techniques for interpretation and analysis, opening a new world of primary documents. Empower students to grasp historical concepts effectively.
Illustrating History: Integrating Comic Art as Primary and Secondary Sources in Social Science Education
Robert McIntosh
Seminole High School
Explore how comic art enhances social science education through two lessons: Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and John Lewis's March, showcasing comics as both primary and secondary sources in the classroom.
Teaching the History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Using Primary Sources
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services
This session takes a historical approach to learning about the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process, treating the conflict as part of modern history that emerged over a century ago. Through primary sources and supplementary materials, participants will trace the development of the conflict from the late 19th century to the early 2000s, providing context for deep and nuanced understanding of this complicated topic.
Examining Diverse Historical Perspectives Through Poetry Using Socratic Inquiry
Kaitlyn Evans
Columbia College
This practice-based exploration of poetry as primary sources will examine multiple perspectives through Socratic formatting to investigate history through critical thinking, with time to debrief and apply knowledge.
11:00 - 11:50 - Session II Presentations
Reading into History: Integrating K-6 Book Talks with Primary Sources for Cross-Curricular Learning
Melissa Starkey
Central Baptist College
This session explores how K-6 educators can integrate literacy and social studies by pairing books and short novels with primary sources, creating engaging, cross-curricular lessons that deepen students' reading comprehension and historical understanding.
Primary Sources in Early Grades: Historical Literacy for Little Historians
Lori Rech
Chris Janson
Bill of Rights Institute
Engage your elementary classroom with innovative primary source integration inspired by BRI curriculum. Gain practical strategies, resources, and hands-on techniques for engaging historical inquiry and empowering students.
Engaging High School Students with Primary Sources: Critical Thinking and Content Mastery in U.S. History
Brian Furgione
University of Central Florida
Seminole County Public Schools
This session is designed for high school U.S. history teachers seeking to enhance student engagement and critical thinking by integrating primary sources into standards aligned lessons. Participants will explore strategies to help students analyze historical sources, justify conclusions, and develop deeper content knowledge within a high school history classroom.
History Mystery: Who Killed Lord Darnley?
Beverly Ledbetter
Saint Leo University
Using primary sources, participants will try to solve the murder. Working with maps, letters, and eyewitness accounts from 1567, can you solve the mystery of who killed Lord Darnley?
The Tampa History Project: Engaging Students Through Local Primary Sources
Brandon Austin
Hillsborough County Public Schools
Explore how the Tampa History Project engages students with local primary sources, fostering critical thinking and strengthening community ties through hands-on historical inquiry.
Using a Geography Lens to Analyze Primary Sources from the Holocaust
Ken Carano
Western Oregon University
Attendees investigate primary sources from the Holocaust to learn how geographic inquiry can produce a more critical understanding of time, place, and events when juxtaposed with teaching history.
Doing Local History through History’s Habits of Mind
Shauna Liverotti
Regina Holland
Bethany Norris
National Council for History Education
Explore History's Habits of Mind through local history! Engage in discussions, primary-source activities, and real-world examples to enhance how we teach and learn about local communities. Build intentional historical habits.
11:50 – 1:00 pm - LUNCH – On Your Own
1:00- 1:50 pm - Session III Presentations
Inquiry into Soul City: Using Primary Sources to Uncover the Story of Soul City, North Carolina
Amy Good
University of North Carolina Charlotte
This session will provide participants with ideas for using primary sources to create inquiry-based experiences for a virtual field trip.
Teaching Local History with Primary Sources: A Case Study of Fort Monroe
Dalton Savage
National Council for History Education
Jeryl Payne
Paula Spencer
Alexandria City Public Schools
Geared toward elementary classrooms, this session will focus on teaching local history, pairing resources from the Library of Congress with picture books to tell the story of Fort Monroe, VA.
Women on the Homefront: A Multifaced Approach to Teach Gender Roles in World War II
Tatiana Mckinney-Stokes
Kent Denver School
This workshop explores women’s roles on the WWII Homefront, highlighting contributions, challenges, and societal shifts. Participants will learn to engage middle school students with critical discussions and interactive activities using key resources.
Using Primary Sources to Explore Themes of the Reconstruction Era and Its Legacies
Aimee Ballans
Facing History and Ourselves
Apryl Taylor
Orange County Public Schools
A variety of strategies guide exploration of Reconstruction Era themes such as: Defining Freedom, Healing and Justice after the Civil War, Reconstruction and Democracy, Backlash and the Fragility of Democracy.
Singing for Justice: Using Chicano Music to Teach Civic Engagement through Primary Sources
Debora Saavedra-Winch
Tina Heafner
University of North Carolina Charlotte
The presenters of this session will focus on how educators can use Chicano music, such as Cantos de miCantón, as primary sources to engage K-12 students in learning, foster critical thinking, and build content knowledge around civic engagement and cultural identity. The session will provide educators with strategies to analyze primary sources through the lens of Chicano music, helping students explore multiple perspectives on historical and contemporary civic movements. Participants will learn how to use tools from the Library of Congress and other resources to examine the role of music as a catalyst for activism and social change.
Exploring Strategies for Analyzing Primary Sources
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services
Primary sources expose students to multiple perspectives as well as help students develop critical inquiry skills. This interactive session will introduce teachers to a variety of source analysis tools and strategies to support their instruction.
2:00- 2:50 pm - Session IV Presentations
Cultural Heritage Celebrations: A Differentiated Scaffold Approach for Multilingual Learners Support in Inquiry-Based Learning
Lynette Batista-Sanchez
Lisa Cook
University of North Carolina
The increase in Multilingual Learners in U.S. schools underscores the need for effective strategies, combining inquiry-based learning and differentiated scaffolds to investigate local cultural events, content mastery, and civic pride.
What did Thomas Jefferson mean when he said "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?"
Amy Allen
Virginia Tech University
Sierra Sallah
Roanoke City Public Schools
"Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything" outlines many contradictions about Thomas Jefferson's life and career. How can we use primary sources with elementary students to critically investigate this idea?
Challenging Single Narratives in Virtual Spaces
Vernon Turner
University of South Carolina
Andrew Hogan
Five Virtual Program
This presentation focuses on identifying single narratives in Social Studies and how to present students with primary and secondary sources that generate new perspectives, challenging single narratives in virtual spaces.
Strategies for the Classroom
Meghan Farley
Seminole High School
This presentation introduces three classroom strategies (guided questioning, primary sandwiches, and SWBST) to help students effectively analyze and comprehend primary sources, enhancing historical understanding and critical thinking skills.
Watching Films Like a Historian
Matt Stevenson
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
This is a presentation of data collected on AP History teachers use of film in their classrooms as primary sources relating to the World Wars.
Using the Newspaper as a Primary Source
Jodi Pushkin
Florida Press Educational Services
A living textbook, the newspaper, as both a primary and secondary source, brings civics and history into the context of today's society with what's going on in the world.
Behind the Scenes: A Discussion on Activity Design & Creation with The History Center
Kendra Hazen
Griffon Binkowski
Lauren McLevey
Orange County Regional History Center
Do you LOVE the History Center? Curious about what WE do with our primary sources? Come hear from our former Assistant Curator of Education, one of our Museum Educators, and one of our Exhibits designers and find inspiration for your classroom as we share our process of creating hands-on activities for our K-12 field trips from the primary sources in our archives.
2:50 - 3:10 pm - Refreshment Break- TA 130
3:20 - 4:10 pm - Session V Presentations
Using Primary Sources to Support Text Connections and Authentic Writing Experiences in Social Studies Instruction
Abbie Bracelin
University of Central Florida
This presenter of this session will focus on the use of primary sources to support social studies writing. Instructional examples will be provided in using multiple primary sources to support students’ creativity and authenticity.
Religion + Politics in the Middle East
Dori Gerber
Institute for Curriculum Services
Explore the Middle East and its complex and diverse religious landscape and consider a variety of ways that religion and politics are intertwined in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and Iran.
A Slam Dunk: Using Sports Sources to Teach Political Topics
Jason Allen
Shepherd University
This presentation will focus on works (photos, political cartoons, videos, etc.) that highlight the connections between major sporting and political events (1960-Current).
Routines for Deeper Learning with Primary Sources
Rhonda Bondie
Hunter College - City University of New York
Teachers need practical routines and in-the-moment strategies that reliably move diverse initial student interest into deeper understanding. This workshop provides primary source learning routines that foster a sense of belonging by ensuring that all students can access and think critically about the information conveyed through a primary source. Participants will explore how teacher feedback builds student understanding and take away an activity for use with their own students.
What Was Common Knowledge? A Study of 19th Century Textbooks to Explore the Curriculum of American Common Schools
Jenni Sanguiliano Lonski
Rollins College
This presentation explores Common and Normal School textbooks to uncover the essential knowledge deemed necessary for success in Common Schools. These original texts illuminate key insights into the history of education in the United States and provide a deeper understanding of the educational values and practices of the time.
Navigating Primary Sources: Tools for Guiding English Language Learners and Reading Students Through Primary Source Analysis and Writing
Anne Hester
Robert Moor
East Lee County High School
An overview of strategies used to engage ELLs and those who have challenges in writing an analysis or description of a visual primary source.
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