The GBH archives, working with educators, plans to improve access to the american archive of public broadcasting collection, specifically for high school and higher education teachers and lifelong…

This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching tips for educators seeking to incorporate multimedia content into their lessons. Additionally, the Foundation will demonstrate for educators how to utilize media primary sources from archives to teach specific topics and archival science. The project aims to provide a model for audiovisual archives to better engage educators and strengthen K-12 and higher education services through their collections. It will also support critical teaching around difficult historical issues documented in public media archives. The award period is from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2023.

The GBH archives, working with educators, plans to improve access to the american archive of public broadcasting collection, specifically for high school and higher education teachers and lifelong learners, by creating educational primary resources sets featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned to topics commonly taught in american history courses and related to current events. The project will create teaching tips for educators seeking to use online multimedia content in teaching. The project will create 20 educational primary resources sets featuring archival public television and radio programming. The project also will show educators how to utilize media primary resources from archives to teach specific topics and archival science, while demonstrating how best to present their collections to enable educational use. The project will impact the broader audiovisual archives community by (1) providing a replicable model for engaging educators to enhance the use and impact of audiovisual archives collections in k-12 and higher education, and (2) by providing a demonstrated effort for audiovisual archives to support critical teaching and learning around hard histories documented in our collections.