Dear Social Studies Educators:
Here are the latest Social Studies updates. Included are free professional development offerings, award and scholarship opportunities as well as travel abroad opportunities. These are time sensitive opportunities. See attachments for more detail.
Please share these opportunities with others who may not subscribe to our listserv.
Best regards,
The NCDPI K-12 Social Studies Team
Professional Development Opportunities:
§ Concept- Based Curriculum and Instruction online Professional Learning Community
Free, online professional development opportunity that will assist you with developing your local curriculum framework using a concept-based unit development approach. See attached flyer for more information. Spaces are limited so submit your application now! Application deadline is February 4, 2011.
§ Online Registration for NC Council for the Social Studies Conference
The North Carolina Council for the Social Studies is hosting its 41st Annual Conference February 24-25, 2011 at the Koury Convention Center in Greensboro. Registration is now available online! Visit http://ncsocialstudies.org/to get a sneak preview of some of the featured sessions. NCDPI K-12 Social Studies will also present a session on the newly adopted Essential Standards.
§ Voices of North Carolina
Voices of North Carolina is an interactive three part webinar series designed specifically for Eighth Grade Social Studies teachers. Participants will examine the linguistic traditions of North Carolina, based on curriculum developed by N.C. State professors Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser. Participants are introduced to basic concepts about language variation and dialects found in North Carolina. Historical and current social contexts of major language and dialect groups are considered, including Outer Banks English, Appalachian English, rural and urban Piedmont English, Lumbee English, and African-American English. By the end of the webinar series, teachers will be more familiar with the importance of cultural appreciation and how language and dialect are currently changing in different regions of North Carolina. Webinars are scheduled for February 1, March 1, and April 5 from 5 to 6 PM.
To register for this free professional development, access the following link: http://moourl.com/VoicesofNC . Deadline for Registration is January 27.
Continuing Education Credit: One CEU will be awarded upon successful completion of the three part webinar series.
§ Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement (CCSA)
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is pleased to announce the first annual Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement (CCSA) to be held April 18-20 at the Koury Convention Center. This conference is designed to consolidate several conferences into one by replacing the Accountability, Safe Schools, and Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps conferences. CCSA comprises strands that will address educational issues formerly covered by the three conferences mentioned above along with strands covering pk-12 curriculum, instruction, and technology. Conference details, registration information and the Call for Proposals can be found at: http://www.ncpublicschools.org/academicservices/conference/ . Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2011
§ Thomas Day & Elizabeth Keckly Workshop - coming June 2011!
Free workshop for 80 K-12 educators: "Crafting Freedom: Black Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Abolitionists of
the Antebellum Upper South”. See attached flyer for more information.
§ 2nd Annual 2011 High School Journal Conference
The Editorial Board of The High School Journal would like to invite you to the 2nd Annual 2011 High School Journal Conference on February 26, 2011. The theme of this year’s conference is “When Those Who Know Speak: Encouraging Teacher Voices in Education Policy Reform. They are also accepting presentation proposals for both single and panel discussions. Proposal submissions are due on February 1, 2011. See the attached flyer for more information.
- The MA in Economic Education from the University of Delaware is open for applications.
The MA in Economics and Entrepreneurship Education is the #1 program for equipping leaders in enhancing and advancing economic education, not just in the USA, but in the whole world. Now, in its 30
th year, the MAEEE educates a geographically diverse array of veteran teachers with the best resources, networks and knowledge in the field of K-12 economics. Graduates become master teachers in the classroom, leaders and innovators in their respective school systems, and occasionally professionals on staff with universities, state councils on economic education, or state departments of education. And best of all, the MAEEE is designed to fit around a teacher’s busy schedule using a mix of online education and one-month summer sessions at U-Del’s main campus. If you are interested, act quickly! The deadline for applications for the class of 2013 is
January 31, 2011. For more information, contact our Programs Director, Stephen Day (an MAEEE grad!) at
sday@nccee.org. You can also visit the MAEEE website at
http://www.lerner.udel.edu/programs/graduate/economics or
http://www.udel.edu/ceee/MAEEEInto.html.”
Teacher Survey (Complete today only!) – State Board Policy Implications
The N.C. Department of Environment & Natural Resources, the N.C. Department of Public Instruction and numerous partners have been working together to craft an environmental literacy plan for North Carolina. The plan is one way in which North Carolina is responding to proposed federal legislation to enhance environmental literacy among public school students. It will ensure that environmental education is integrated throughout North Carolina's PreK-12 formal education system. To qualify for future federal funding for environmental literacy, the plan will have to be adopted as policy by the North Carolina State Board of Education.
The plan describes how our state will prepare students to understand, analyze, and address the major environmental challenges facing North Carolina and the country. There are four main components, each one outlining specific strategies for ensuring that North Carolina students graduate as environmentally literate citizens. These components include state educational standards and graduation requirements as they relate to environmental literacy, teacher professional development in environmental education, model school grounds and facilities, and strategies for measuring the environmental literacy of students.
Fay Gore
Interim Section Chief
K-12 Social Studies
Division of Curriculum & Instruction
NC Department of Public Instruction
6345 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-6345
919-807-3954
919-807-4046 (Fax)
fgore@dpi.state.nc.us
