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Upcoming Conferences and Workshops


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Literacy Strategies to Unlock Social Studies Content

Monday, June 28, 2010 to Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Goucher College,  Baltimore,  MD

What are the important literacy strategies for the secondary social studies classroom? What are the organizational patterns of text structure that can help unlock social studies content? What impact do these strategies and patterns have on the planning, delivery, and assessment of social studies content? This practical, hands-on, three-day workshop for secondary-level educators (grades 6-12) will ... More Information

Innovative Approaches to the Teaching of World History

Wednesday, July 14, 2010 to Friday, July 16, 2010
Yale University,  New Haven,  CT

Participants in this intensive three-day workshop will discuss and experience innovative approaches to both the content and the pedagogy of the teaching of world history. Faculty from Yale and other universities and master high school and middle school teachers of world history will discuss the most recent research information and teaching techniques relating to the teaching of ancient and modern ... More Information

Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS): Teacher Training Institute

Monday, July 26, 2010 to Friday, July 30, 2010
Santa Clara University,  Santa Clara,  CA

Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS) is a professional development program that trains social studies teachers in curriculum design, assessment, and instruction in a standards-based environment. This institute will provide participants with the materials and expertise necessary to lead their own PASS training workshops in their schools and school districts. Participants will learn about P ... More Information

Teaching with Documents and Works of Art: Civil Rights

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 to Friday, July 30, 2010
National Archives and Smithsonian American Art Museum,  Washington,  DC

The National Archives and Records Administration, Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Council for the Social Studiespresent this three-day workshop in July to provide a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, collaborative work, and analysis of documents and works of art in order to introduce teachers to the holdings of the NARA and American Art. Participants will develop classroom ac ... More Information

Teaching with Documents and Works of Art: Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 to Friday, August 13, 2010
National Archives and Smithsonian American Art Museum,  Washington,  DC

Presented by the National Archives and Records Administration, Smithsonian American Art Museum and NCSS, this three-day workshop that focuses on the work of artist Norman Rockwell, life on the U.S. homefront during World War II, and the notion of the "Four Freedoms." This workshop will be held in conjunction with the special exhibition Telling Stories: Norman Rockwell from the Collections of Georg ... More Information

90th NCSS Annual Conference-Denver 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010 to Sunday, November 14, 2010
Colorado Convention Center,  Denver,  CO

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