On Oct. 10, 2025, Scott Abbott, assistant director at the Delaware Center for Civics Education (DCCE) at UD’s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), presented in two sessions for Delaware's statewide professional development day for educators. In the first session, Abbott presented with Michael Feldman, social studies education associate from the Delaware Department of Education, on Building Readers Through Social Studies. This multi-part session highlighted the intersection of social studies and the science of reading, showing how content-rich instruction can strengthen literacy outcomes by supporting comprehension, inference-making and vocabulary development. Participants explored how disciplinary literacy, as taught through social studies, can be a powerful driver of overall literacy by instructing students on how to read like historians, geographers, economists and civic thinkers. In the second session, Abbott presented with Erin Sullivan, social studies teacher at Cab Calloway School of the Arts, a session called Revolution Revisited: Using LOC Primary Sources to Teach the Declaration’s Legacy. This session helped participants explore a collection of newly designed civics and history lessons commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a project funded by a grant from the Library of Congress to the Delaware Center for Civics Education. The Institute for Public Administration is a research and public service center in the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration.

Originally posted in UDaily's For the Record​​.​​​