Utah Grantees

Grant Contact: Dawn L. Hauser – K-12 Instructional Specialist
Email: dlhauser@graniteschools.org
Website: http://www.graniteschools.org

Grant awarded November 30, 2009
Twenty elementary and secondary teachers received additional training on May 22, 2010 on using the LOC and other digital tools to create personal resource sets. By September 2010, seventeen Utah teachers created 207 resource sets which aligned with specific indicators of the Utah Social Studies Core Curriculum.  The sets and host website were presented to 250 teachers at the UCSS Social Studies Seminar in November 2010. Finalized and approved sets have been disseminated throughout the state via the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) and Utah Education Network (UEN) - http://www.utahteachingwithprimarysources.com.

Grant awarded April 1, 2009
This grant extended the initial TPS training to five Utah school districts throughout the state and created a consortium of teacher trainers.  Activity for the second grant was completed during the fourth quarter of 2009 with a total of 150 teachers reached. Seventy teachers were trained in Murray, Alpine and Granite School Districts during October and November of 2009. Thirty-five teachers were trained on July 7-8, 2009 by UT teacher leaders who had participated in a previous TPS workshop in Salt Lake City. An additional twenty teachers were trained in the Washington School District on July 22-23, 2009.

Grant awarded February 13, 2009
Jordan and Granite school districts worked in partnership with local universities to train teachers on integrating primary sources into their history programs and Teaching American History grants. Peggy O’Neill-Jones traveled to Utah to present the initial TPS workshop on December 9 and 10, 2008. A group of 25 educators learned how to find and organize digital primary sources from the Library of Congress and other digital collections. Subsequent grants extended the initial training to 11 districts throughout the state and created a consortium of teacher/trainers.

The initial grant was completed during the second quarter of 2009 with a total of 25 educators reached with 9 completed Annotated Resource Sets (Sample ARS). The teachers who completed the initial TPS training in Salt Lake City submitted an ARS on a topic aligned with the Utah State Core Curriculum. Several of these teachers went on to become trainers in their local school districts.

Grant contact: Cheryl D. Walters – Head, Digital Initiatives, Merrill-Cazier Library
Email: cheryl.walters@usu.edu
Website: http://www.usu.edu

Grant awarded February 13, 2009
Utah State University held a 3-day TPS workshop for 27 teachers and school library media specialists from the 5 school districts in northern Utah on June 10-12, 2009. They also incorporated TPS into the USU course Information Access and Technology. Grant activity was completed as of October 30, 2009 with a total of 136 educators reached. Additionally, 10 Annotated Resource Sets were completed and 17 reflection papers submitted to the Western Regional Center. Follow-up included a presentation to 34 teachers at the Utah Education Association on October 1, 2009, a presentation to 55 digital content creators at the Southeast CONTENTdm Users Group on October 13, 2009, a half-day focus group held September 18, 2009 and 20 pre-service teachers reached through methods classes.