New High School Reading Like a Historian Lessons and Professional Development

 The Digital Inquiry Group is recruiting high school U.S. history teachers to receive free professional development from the Digital Inquiry Group (DIG) and use new Reading Like a Historian lessons that include digital literacy instruction. 

Participating teachers will 

1. Attend one virtual professional development institute on teaching with Reading Like a Historian lessons and assessments. (Sessions are synchronous and will not be recorded.) 
2. Complete an asynchronous online course about DIG's digital literacy curriculum, Civic Online Reasoning. 
3. Teach 4 to 8 new Reading Like a Historian lessons with their students in fall 2024. These lessons will address topics chronologically from Reconstruction to World War I. The lessons will also include Civic Online Reasoning activities to support students in discerning credible information online.

4. Participate in four 1-hour group coaching sessions in fall 2024.

Participating teachers will receive $1,000 and earn up to 20 hours of professional learning credits upon completion of all parts of the project.

The deadline to apply is May 8! DIG will contact teachers selected to participate by May 17, 2024.

Apply here.