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Preview the #NCSS100 lineup, register for our January webinar, and explore podcasts in this month's edition of PD Monthly.

| View in browser     December 29, 2021 \| 17 \| e-Newsletter Professional Development Monthly   Reading, Analyzing, & Creating Infographics in the Elementary Classroom Dan and Michael chat with Emma Thacker and Jeremy Stoddard about their article in Social Studies & the Young Learner titled, “Reading, Analyzing, and Creating Informational Graphics in the Elementary Classroom.” Listen here.   Sponsored Message Join the Nationwide Elevate Civics Research Project You will get $150, an assessment of students’ learning, and access to civics resources. You will teach 10 sequential lessons, record classes, and administer short questionnaires. Let’s Go!   Learn from Renowned Speakers at #NCSS100 Join us at the 100th Anniversary Celebration! Explore opportunities like our Former Secretary of Education panel, a recorded Q&A session with Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, and several panels with incredible authors. Register for our once-in-a-century celebration today!   Take a look at a few of our featured speakers: Arne Duncan served as U.S. Secretary of Education during the Obama Administration. Currently, he is on a mission to improve the lives of young adults in Chicago. Duncan aims to provide outreach, therapeutic, education, and employment opportunities for the young men most likely to be engaged in gun violence. John B. King Jr. is president of The Education Trust, a national nonprofit organization that seeks to identify and close educational opportunity and achievement gaps. King served as U.S. Secretary of Education in the Obama administration Rod Paige served as U.S. Secretary of Education in the first George W. Bush administration. As the Nation’s top educator, he championed student achievement and employed "best of breed" solutions to raise national standards of educational excellence. Debbie Bornstein Holinstat has spent her career writing for some of the biggest names in broadcast news, including Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield, and the Today Show's Craig Melvin. Michael Bornstein is one of the youngest known survivors of the Auschwitz death camp. Photos of him at liberation have been spotted on museum walls, book covers, and film clips around the world and yet he waited more than seventy years to step forward and share his story publicly. Register for #NCSS100 How to Break Up with Your Favorite Racist Children’s Books Jan 18, 2022 \| 7:00 PM ET Why do we struggle with admitting how pain and love are entangled in cherished artifacts of our childhood? In this talk, presenter Philip Nel argues that confronting this fact is the best way to dismantle the White-supremacist delusion of “cancel culture,” to develop more complex relationships with favorite works of our youth and to create a more inclusive, diverse culture for contemporary children. Register.   This series is a partnership between the National Humanities Center and the National Council for the Social Studies and is generously sponsored by the Library of Congress' Teaching for Primary Sources grant program.    Visions of Education Ep. 150: Black Teachers Interrupting Their White Colleagues' Racism Ep. 100: Teaching Racial Literacy and Controversial Issues Ep. 69: The Complexity of Citizenship for Black Women Social Studies Teachers National Endowment from the Humanities Summer Teacher Institute Spend an unforgettable two weeks in New York City and at the Great Camps of the Adirondacks exploring the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from two contrasting landscapes. Stipend: $2200. Application Deadline March 1, 2022. For more information visit www.cortland.edu/common-ground    Do you have a professional development opportunity that you want included in an upcoming edition of PD Monthly? Submit it to tssp@ncss.org.   Find your next social studies opportunity from over 1,000 jobs listed! Professional Development Monthly -- known as PD Monthly -- is the official member  professional development e-newsletter and is published once a month.   You are receiving this email as one of your NCSS membership benefits.    Editors: Joy Lindsey, Director of Marketing and Membership Andrew Oglander, Digital Marketing Manager   Maribell Abeja-DeVitto, Advertising Representative, MAbejaDeVitto@smithbucklin.com Copyright © 2022 National Council for the Social Studies, All rights reserved National Council for the Social Studies, 8555 16th Street, Suite 500, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States, 301-588-1800 Manage preferences |
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