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TPS Consortium

The TPS Consortium currently includes more than 200 partner organizations and reaches all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Consortium members share ideas, information, and materials, and in many cases collaborate on the design and delivery of TPS projects.

TPS Consortium members represent several broad types of educational organizations, including colleges and universities, non-profits, cultural institutions, libraries, state agencies, professional associations, public school districts, and advocacy organizations.

TPS Consortium members use Library of Congress online collections to teach subjects like rural history, civics, ethnic studies, journalism, writing, urban education, geography, STEM, and more. They offer professional development workshops and academic courses; write curricula others can adapt to use with their own students and participants; and create online apps and online interactives that teach concepts, develop analysis skills, and unleash creativity.

Current Consortium members target learner populations that include members of African American, Indigenous, and Latinx communities, preschoolers and K-12 students, classroom teachers and college professors, artists, musicians, English Language Learners, persons with disabilities, and veterans, among others. This diversity allows the Library to better reach its mission to engage, inspire, and inform by engaging communities across the country with TPS methods and materials.

The Library’s goals for the TPS Consortium are:

  • Consortium members are instrumental in designing and disseminating a national TPS program
  • Consortium members deliver TPS programming, materials, and tools that effectively meet the educational needs of diverse learner communities
  • Consortium members are good stewards of government funds and resources

Further, TPS Consortium members:

  • Identify the learning needs of populations of learners for which Library of Congress online resources can provide critical information, skills, and perspectives
  • Devise methodology and strategies for teaching a variety of subjects
  • Create and deliver TPS programming, materials, and tools based on Library of Congress online resources
  • Reflect on the success of their TPS activities through formal and informal data gathering
  • Modify TPS programming, materials, and tools when necessary, based on feedback
  • Disseminate curricula, instructional materials, and tools developed under the grant through existing networks of subsidiary and partner organizations
  • Meet regularly with other Consortium members to share information and develop strategies for teaching with Library of Congress online resources