At the heart of the Program is the Center's library of seminar toolboxes. These online resources provide historical documents, literary texts, works of art, and discussion questions with which teachers, collaborating with local scholars, custom design their own seminars. The toolboxes are built around content common to standards across the nation. Easy to organize and cost-effective, the Center's seminars can accommodate crowded school calendars and tight budgets.

The Center offers free training to show professional development planners how to use the toolboxes to organize seminars that combine content study and instructional strategies. A district need only cover the travel and lodging expenses of the Center's trainer.