NCSS is proud to present four professional development workshops for the summer of 2009 . These workshops feature in-depth, hands-on information that will strengthen your classroom teaching. Literacy Strategies to Unlock Social Studies Content 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 workshop for secondary-level educators (grades 6-12) will focus on strategies and approaches that help students with nonfiction reading in social studies. Presented by Peggy Altoff, K-12 coordinator of social studies, District 11 Colorado Springs, CO, and NCSS Past-President, the workshop takes place July 13-15, 2009, 8:30am-4:00pm (daily) at Goucher College, Towson, MD (outside Baltimore). The fee of $700 includes room for three nights (July 12-14), meals (dinner on July 12 through lunch on July 15), and course materials. Two graduate credits are available through Goucher College for an additional $200. • Click here for more information and to register

Powerful and Authentic Social Studies (PASS): A Teacher Training Institute 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 PASS criteria and standards for curriculum design, assessment construction, and effective instruction. In small learning communities, participants will examine videotaped K-12 vignettes of teaching and create examples of curriculum units and assessment tasks to share with their learning community. The PASS Institute will be presented by Joseph A. Braun, Jr., coordinator of professional development for NCSS. Dr. Braun is professor emeritus of Education at Illinois State University and a past member of the NCSS Board of Directors. Historic Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA, will host the institute from July 27-31, 2009. The cost is $675, which includes snacks and lunch during the institute, PASS training materials, and continuing education credit. Other meals and hotel accommodations are not included. The closest hotel to the university is Candlewood Suites (408-241-9305). More information on PASS

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Teaching with Documents and Works of Art: An Integrated Approach This three-day workshop will provide a varied program of lectures, demonstrations, collaborative work, and analysis of documents and works of art—introducing teachers to the holdings of the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Workshop attendees will participate in and develop classroom activities that utilize both visual images and primary source documents as teaching tools in ways that sharpen students’ skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities. This year’s content focus will be on Immigration. Course Objectives: • Identify the various types of primary source documents held by the National Archives. • Learn about a wide range of artworks in various media in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. • Learn, develop, and share exciting methods and materials for teaching with visual images and documents as primary sources. • Describe the opportunities available for educators and students (workshops, tours, publications, online resources) from both organizations. • Have fun! The Summer workshop will be held at the National Archives Building and Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, on July 22-24, 2009. The cost is $200 per participant. Faculty for the workshop will be Lee Ann Potter, Director of Education and Volunteer Programs at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and Elizabeth K. Eder, National Education Program Manager at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Teachers may read more about the workshop at americanart.si.edu/education/dev and at www.archives.gov/education/growing-professionally.html

See the Teaching With Documents collection, which is free online to NCSS members, at http://publications.socialstudies.org/twd.shtml.

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Innovative Approaches to Teaching World History and World Cultures Explore cutting-edge approaches to the teaching of world history and world cultures at the high school and middle school levels. During this intensive three-day workshop, participants will examine best practices and innovative teaching strategies that can be used in a world history/world cultures classroom. Three graduate credits are available. The workshop is co-sponsored by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and Yale University Programs in International Education Resources (PIER). The cost of the workshop is $200 (room and board extra). In this workshop, Yale faculty will provide some of the latest research on world history topics, and teachers of world history will share teaching strategies. We will connect the teaching of world history to NCSS and other professional standards. Presenters will provide samples of both chronological and thematic approaches to world history and will present strategies for creating an interdisciplinary approach to world history. The workshop will be presented by Michael Yell, president of NCSS, and Stephen Armstrong, PIER co-director and past-president of Connecticut Council for the Social Studies. They will be joined by Yale University faculty and practicing middle school and high school teachers. The workshop will be held July 15-17, 2009, on the Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut. The cost is $200 per participant. Housing is available from Yale University Housing. Please complete the form at www.yale.edu/macmillan/pier/institutes/housing.pdf and send it by e-mail to Stephen Armstrong at steph17895@aol.com.

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