Reading Like a Historian Program 2025-2026

Frequently Visited Links

• List of Program Lessons and Assessments to Implement
• Lesson Feedback Form

January Tasks

1. If you haven’t finished yet, please continue to teach 6-10 lessons and use 6-10 accompanying assessments from this list.
2. Complete the short lesson feedback form after each lesson you teach. Your detailed feedback will allow us to improve the lessons going forward and to track your overall progress in this project.
3. After you have finished teaching the 6-10 lessons for this project, please have your students complete the post-survey. There is also a teacher post-survey to complete. If you have not received the post-survey links from AIR, please email us at info@inquirygroup.org
4. If you need to continue implementing lessons this month, please email info@inquirygroup.org. Note: The students you will be teaching this month need to be the same students as the fall semester.
5. Participate in the December/January discussion forum. Share your experiences teaching the lessons and learn from colleagues.
6. (Optional) Invite your colleagues to participate in free professional development. Learn more here.

Session 1, June 23 - Introduction to Reading Like a Historian 

• Session Materials (Introduction to Reading Like a Historian materials and presentation slides)

Session 2, June 24 - Introducing and Modeling Historical Thinking

• Session Materials (Introducing and Modeling Historical Thinking materials and presentation slides) 

Session 3, June 25 - Formative Assessment

• Session Materials (Formative Assessment materials and presentation slides)
• Institute Feedback Survey
• List of program lessons and assessments to implement

Civic Online Reasoning Asynchronous Course 

• The course ran June 26 to July 23. Click here to review the course.

Session 4, July 24 or August 7 - Integrating Digital Literacy in the History Classroom

• Session Materials (Integrating Digital Literacy in the History Classroom materials and presentation slides)
• Lesson Feedback Form

August Session: Intro to the Work of Historians

• August/September Community Forum
• Session Materials (classroom materials and presentation slides)

September Session: Evaluating Historical Photos

• August/September Community Forum
• Session Materials (classroom materials and presentation slides)

October Session: Verifying Historical Claims Online

• October/November Community Forum
• Session Materials (classroom materials and presentation slides) 

November Session

• October/November Community Forum
• November Session Zoom Link
• Session Materials (classroom materials and presentation slides)

If you have any questions not answered on this page, please email us at info@inquirygroup.org.