Teaching with Primary Sources

Background
The Library of Congress is the nation’s oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. Its mission is to engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity.

The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program has been the Library of Congress’s premier educational outreach program, providing instructional materials, tools, education, and professional development to enhance teachers’ ability to integrate digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress into instruction that builds student literacy, critical thinking skills, content knowledge, and ability to conduct original research.

Grant Details
The purpose of this notice is to identify grantee organizations that will design and implement educational projects in which the Library’s digitized primary sources and other online materials are central to teaching and learning.

The program seeks to solicit project proposals that expand the body of innovative strategies, tools, and materials for meaningful teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials. Funded projects may focus on diverse content areas and populations such as STEM, literacy, social studies, the disabled, English Language learners, teacher education, public health, journalism, and many others.

The TPS Regional Program awards smaller sub grants of up to $25,000 for projects that have more modest financial requirements or will disseminate already-developed TPS program materials.

Eligibility Requirements
Eligible applicants include public or private organizations such as K-12 schools, universities, literacy organizations, historical societies, museums, libraries, associations of home-schooling parents and care-givers, honor societies, and other community groups.

An applicant may be disqualified if the applicant or any principal or employee has been subject to any legal proceeding involving fraud or criminal activity.

Period of Performance
The period of performance for the grant is from October 1st, 2021 to September 30th, 2022.

Additional funds may be made available for a maximum additional two years at the government’s sole discretion.

Grant Value
The Library intends to award up to 100 Cooperative Agreements with grant awards ranging from $35,000 to $100,000.

Actual awards may be less than $35,000 or exceed $100,000.

The Library reserves the right to change funding amounts and terms of the resulting Cooperative Agreement as a result of availability of funds and Library requirements.

Place of Performance
Projects will be performed nationwide.