Past Institutes

Introducing, Interpreting, and Integrating Primary Sources in the English Language Arts Classroom (Fall 2025 Webinar Series)

On September 15 and 22, 2025, Humanities Texas held a webinar series supporting the use of primary sources in the secondary-level English language arts classroom.

Schedule and Curriculum

Content aligned with the secondary-level ELA TEKS. The webinar series drew on a collaboration sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Library of Congress (LOC) resulting in NCTE’s openly available collection of essays and lessons Working with Primary Sources in the English Language Arts Classroom.

Participants in this two-part webinar series learned how to introduce primary sources in their ELA courses and considered critical and creative approaches for interpreting and integrating primary sources into their instruction, ultimately learning how to model these processes for their students’ own research and multimodal composition.

Like all Humanities Texas teacher programs, the webinar series was content-based and teacher-centered, with an emphasis on teaching with primary sources and developing effective pedagogical strategies.

Faculty

Troy Hicks of Central Michigan University led the webinar series.

Schedule

The webinar took place over Zoom on September 15 and 22, 2025. The schedule is available here.

Sponsors

The webinar was made possible with major funding from the State of Texas with ongoing support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.