Free Professional Development Opportunities 2026

Reading Like a Historian

Explore Reading Like a Historian lessons featuring documents from the Library of Congress. Experience model lessons, access curricular resources, and identify strategies for using the materials in your classroom.

Reading Like a Historian with Digital Literacy

Explore history lessons that embed digital literacy instruction. Experience model lessons, access new curricular resources, and learn evidence-based strategies for teaching digital literacy. Participants are encouraged to attend both sessions, as each webinar will feature different curriculum materials.

Beyond the Bubble

Explore more than 150 document-based history assessments that reveal student thinking and can be scored in minutes. Engage with model tasks that feature Library of Congress documents and identify opportunities for formative assessment in your context. Participants are encouraged to attend both sessions, as each webinar will feature different assessments.

Introduction to Civic Online Reasoning

Learn about DIG’s research-backed Civic Online Reasoning curriculum. Review free curricular materials and discuss how effective online evaluation strategies can be integrated into your classroom.

Reading Like a Historian with Digital Literacy

Learn how to integrate digital literacy into the history classroom and explore free, research-backed curricular resources from the Digital Inquiry Group. 

Civic Online Reasoning

Learn how to equip students with research-backed strategies for evaluating online information and explore free curricular resources developed by the Digital Inquiry Group.

The course includes three modules:

• Search Like a Fact Checker with Lateral Reading
• Verifying Claims on Social Media and Click Restraint
• Evaluating Different Types of Online Sources

Basics of Evaluating Online Sources

Learn how to equip students with research-backed strategies for evaluating online information, with an emphasis on lateral reading. Explore free curricular resources developed by the Digital Inquiry Group.

Civic Online Reasoning in Your Teaching Context

Adapt Civic Online Reasoning curriculum materials to integrate digital literacy into the subjects you teach. Course activities are delivered by email.

Using Wikipedia Wisely

Learn how to teach students to use Wikipedia as a starting point for verifying online information. Explore common misconceptions and research-backed strategies for effective online evaluation.