W.Va. Teacher Chosen For C-SPAN Fellowship

Jeffrey Webb is a West Virginia Studies teacher for eighth graders at DuPont Middle School in Belle. A few years ago he started using free, educational resources on C-SPAN Classroom to support his own classroom lessons. 

Now he’s one of five teachers chosen to help create video content, lesson plans, question guides and more for middle and high school teachers across the nation as part of C-SPAN’s 2025 Teacher Fellowship Program.

“The idea is that I’m going to focus mostly on West Virginia and try to find the C-SPAN library clips that deal with our history and our state and our people,” Webb said. “Then I’ll create questions to go along with those clips that then can be shared with teachers all across the country.” 

The national congressional broadcast network saw Webb as a perfect fit for the program.

“Jeffrey’s experience in the classroom will help him to develop engaging materials for students to explore through C-SPAN’s programs on the history of his state and the Appalachian region,” said Craig McAndrew, director of Education Relations.

Webb said West Virginia’s history is relevant across the nation, because it overlaps in critical ways.

“We have the Civil War, we have the labor history, we have the environment and all of those are topics that are important to our state but also important to our nation as a whole,” he said.

C-SPAN Classroom already has videos and information on famous West Virginians like Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Webb hopes his work this summer will expand that base. 

Educators can learn more about teacher opportunities with C-SPAN at c-span.org/classroom/opportunities/.