COLLABORATE serves as the virtual meeting place for members of the National Archives education team in Washington, DC, and colleagues from schools, institutions, and organizations across the nation to share innovative ideas and best practices. These conversations will serve as a basis for an exciting new web site - DocsTeach - and will also offer important feedback and commentary on the site as it develops.

This new National Archives web site will be filled with content geared specifically for pre-service social studies teachers and methods instructors. It will convey engaging instructional methods and provide valuable materials that make it easy, and highly desirable, for teachers to integrate primary source documents into classroom instruction.

We are hoping to create a site that EVERY social studies methods instructor at EVERY college & university in the country will incorporate into their course-so that we can reach EVERY new social studies teacher BEFORE they begin their career.

We want to create a site that EVERY pre-service teacher will use repeatedly and will tell all of their new colleagues about once they begin teaching-so that we can reach in-service teachers on an unprecedented scale.

For more information, please view our short video about COLLABORATE on YouTube.