Schools and Education St. Stephens Episcopal Educator Christina Pommer to Participate in Library of Congress Primary Resources Program

BRADENTON — A teacher at St. Stephen's Episcopal School has been chosen to participate as a student in a primary sources program given by the Library of Congress.

Christina Pommer will take part in the the Teaching with Primary Sources Summer Institute this coming week in Washington, D.C., from August 3-7.

The chosen participants are K-12 teachers who are seeking to use primary sources—digital versions of original historical documents and artifacts—more effectively when teaching students. Primary sources are considered to be helpful in engaging and provoking students, and improving their learning experience for a subject.

The session Pommer was selected for is on primary sources from the U.S. Civil Rights Era, and will focus on the Library's exhibition “The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom”.

Another area educator, Lisa Fehling of Bayshore High School, was recently selected for another LOC primary sources program that ran in July. The Library has the largest online collection of primary sources.

Free information for the benefit of educators by the LOC can be viewed at www.loc.gov/teachers.