The Southeastern Mass. Council for the Social Studies invites you to their winter dinner meeting on Dec. 3, 2009. Dr. Vernon Domingo will present a program for teachers at all levels. Today, with the pressure of MCAS and teaching to the curriculum, geography is often left out of social studies classrooms. A knowledge of geography makes the lessons relevant to the world we live in today. Dr. Domingo will present ways to incorporate geography into the classroom.  read more »

America in Iraq: An Archaeological Perspective Yale Babylonian Collection Centennial Celebration November 14-15, 2009

Location: Yale University, New Haven Contact Hours: 15 Fee: $95 [includes one lunch] Cutoff Date: November 9, 2009  read more »

Do you have an innovative solution to protect the environment? Planet Connect can help make it happen! We’re looking for creative ideas and actions to fix an environmental problem in your school or local community. Planet Connect will support your efforts with $1,000 and provide you with a local environmental internship. Make a difference! Apply for a grant today! The application deadline is October 30, 2009. http://www.planet-connect.org/planet-connect-grants  read more »

The Center for Civic Education is offering a two-day workshop, WE THE PEOPLE, in late October at the Cape Codder Resort in Hyannis.

It features lesson demonstrations and participant involvement in simulated hearings, as well as a presentation from a constitutional scholar.

Participants will receive the following: • Free classroom set of textbooks • Teacher’s guide • Lesson plans • Constitutional scholarship • Dinner, continental breakfast, and box lunch • Lodging on Friday evening  read more »

Contact Us Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center (CACBC) 2809 Embers Lane Arlington heights, Illinois 60005 www.cacbc.org  read more »

NCSS is a partner in the National Gallery of Writing, an online exhibition of writing hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). You can find our gallery at: http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/nationalcouncilforthesocialstudiesgallery.  read more »

Thanks to support from the MA Council of Social Studies and other education organizations around the country, the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) program was able to recruit a fine group of US teachers for the 2009 professional exchange. We have selected 40 outstanding teachers from around the US to receive this year’s travel grant, funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Exchange (ECA) of the US Department of State.  read more »

Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center Educators’ Tour to China

The Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center, an Illinois-based nonprofit organization invites you to participate in the 2010 Educators’ Tour to China. Designed to give educators’ the experience of discovering the geography, history, & culture of China first hand, it also allows the opportunity of meeting and exchanging ideas with Chinese educators; this educational experience can offer educators 50 cpdu’s at the end of the trip.  read more »

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?  read more »

Robbins Museum of Archaeology Announces Professional Development Opportunity for Regional Educators

Thanks to a grant funded by the Mass Humanities Foundation, the Robbins Museum of Archaeology//Massachusetts Archaeological Society offers an innovative, interactive professional development opportunity open to educators in southeastern Massachusetts.  read more »