For our upcoming workshops, we want to engage preservation professionals, educators, and interested volunteers in the process of creating lessons for the Local Preservation School and/or adapting existing reference materials to create lessons.

Here is how that process could work:

• Participants will be provided with a Local Preservation School template and examples of other lessons
• Depending on the group size, this could be done in teams with 3-5 people per group using Google Docs to collaborate.
• Later workshops could have access to lessons/tutorials developed by other groups.
• After the each group drafts a lesson/tutorial, invite participants to present lessons back to the group and reflect on what works and what doesn’t.
• Present a tutorial on how participants can contribute to Local Preservation School resources beyond the workshop

Here is the draft template in a Google Doc. Based on this draft, these are the parts a lesson should include:

• Title
• Audience
• Difficulty
• Prerequisites
• Learning Objectives
• Key Concepts
• Exercise/Activity Description