Claflin University in collaboration with the Orangeburg County School District has been awarded a sub-grant for a Teacher Professional Development Program titled "Teaching English Language Arts with Library of Congress Primary Sources to 11th and 12th graders in Orangeburg County, South Carolina." Eleventh-grade teachers will use the local school district’s chosen titles (The Crucible and The Great Gatsby) for the project, while twelfth-grade teachers will use the local school district’s chosen titles (1984 and Hamlet).

The team of Claflin trainers will train teachers to use Library of Congress primary sources to design creative assignments for students. The goal is to foster the teachers' and students' creativity and energize research using primary sources. Claflin University’s team of six professors consisting of Dr. Peggy Ratliff, Dr. Nick Robinson, Dr. Mohammed Yousuf, Dr. Jonathan Evans, Dr. Astrid Beckers, and the project director Dr. Mitali Wong at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina is excited to have begun research on the project’s training workshops.