The Tennessee State Library & Archives is pleased to offer their in-person teacher workshops for the 2025-2026 school year. The workshop is taking place in multiple locations across the state but on Tuesday, Dec. 2, they’ll be at Discovery Park of America. Join us for this professional development experience, where we will collaboratively explore strategies for teaching topics such as Prohibition, the Scopes Trial, Popular Culture, the causes of the Great Depression and more through activities aligned with the Tennessee Social Studies Curriculum Standards.

During hands-on activities, we’ll explore Tennessee and American history through diverse media formats including political cartoons, newspaper records, photographs, advertisements, music and other informational texts. Teachers will leave with primary sources, activity ideas, graphic organizers, and the knowledge of resources designed for teaching the 1920s in the classroom in order to help build student background knowledge and engage the classroom in a cross-curricular approach.

Teacher participants will receive lunch and six hours of professional development credit.

Questions? Please send an email to education.tsla@tnsos.gov.