1. Educator designs a Segment of a Lesson, Lesson or LibraryQuest. Publishing criteria requirements are available for each field throughout the design process.
  2. Educator receives feedback during the design process.
  3. Educator submits Learning Experience for Publishing Review.
  4. Learning Experience is reviewed for accuracy and completion by the Primary Source Learning historian.
  5. The historian may return the Learning Experience to the teacher for revision, if necessary, or sends the Learning Experience on for Publishing Review.
  6. The Curatorial Committee reviews the experience in relation to the publishing criteria and provides feedback to the Designer.
  7. The Curatorial Committee evaluates the fit of the experience into the Primary Source Learning Collection with regards to:
    • Depth of content knowledge developed through the Learning Experience.
    • Level of inquiry process used with Library of Congress resources in the Learning Experience.
    • Content area and media format needed for the collection.
    • Explicit example of specific Best Instructional Practices needed to exemplify all practices for each grade level and subject area.
  8. Curatorial Committee contacts the designer if revisions to the Learning Experience are required. The designer can choose to revise the Learning Experience and re-submit. If the designer does not wish to revise, the experience could be revised by Primary Source Learning staff or Ambassadors. The staff/Ambassadors will be added as co-designers and the Learning Experience may be published in the Collection.
  9. The Primary Source Learning Experience Collection is reviewed by Subject Area Committees annually. Each Subject Area Committee reviews one Subject Area of the Learning Experience Collection annually to weed the collection. Subject Area Committees make recommendations for Learning Experience topics to solicit from designers. The weeding process considers the breadth of the Subject Area content represented in the Learning Experience Collection: depth of content studied through primary sources, variety of student activities in the Learning Experiences, variety of primary source formats used in the Learning Experiences, currency of the content presented, and breadth of Best Instructional Practices of the Learning Experiences.