COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS STANDARDS
Everyone is to use the NEW CCR Standards included here for this school term!
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EverFi
EverFi
Looking for web-based resources that teach and assess the West Virginia College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Social Studies?
EverFi has interactive, standards-aligned, at no cost resources that focus on personal finance, civic engagement, and African American history.
Module topics include: banking, savings, financing higher education, taxes, insurance. These programs come to your school at no cost through BB&T, MassMutual, and other local community banks.
EverFi provides you the instructional resources, training, and 24/7 support.
To learn more about EverFi’s resources, go to http://everfi.com/k12/
or contact Mike Oliver at moliver@everfi.com.
Take a look at EverFi’s high school personal finance program.
Allegra Kazemzadeh
Social Studies/Assessment Coordinator
Office of Middle/Secondary Learning
1900 Kanawha Boulevard, East
Building 6 Room 603
Charleston, WV 25305-0330
WVDE Tree- Support Site
College & Career Readiness Standards
New Social Studies Standards: SocStuStandards2016
2016 WV Social Studies Confernce
WV SS Conference ProgramDraft
The West Virginia Social Studies Conference
is to be held at WVU on Wednesday, June 15.
There is no registration fee and lunch will be provided.
Interested participants should RSVP to Dr. Waterson by June 1 at Robert.Waterson@mail.wvu.edu
Career Readiness standards for Social Studies
Reminder Policy 2520.4 West Virginia College- and Career Readiness standards for Social Studies are on public comment until May 16th at 4pm. http://wvde.state.wv.us/policies/
There are no major changes to the social studies content of the current courses.
- A new numbering system,
- removal of common core literacy standards and
- the addition of grade band indicators will allow parents and teacher to guide and monitor progress.
- Literacy skills are included in the grade band indicators.
- Three high school courses were added to provide more offerings to students.
- Investigation of postsecondary education and workforce preparedness skills have been added to the personal finance standards in Civics.
- This policy includes content standards that reflect a rigorous, challenging and focused curriculum.
Joey
Robert “Joey” Wiseman Jr.
Executive Director
WVDE Office of Middle/Secondary Learning
Churchill Archives for Schools
— ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL STUDIES —
The Churchill Archives for Schools provides an expanding range of classroom-ready resources specially written and developed by leading history educators to engage and excite as well as inform and challenge. Based around four broad topics in modern world history, the Churchill Archive for Schools also offers teachers and students an accessible entry-point to the complete Churchill Archive.
A small team of talented educators has developed a series of teaching investigations in support of the Churchill For Schools archive to help make sense of the role and perspective of Winston Churchill in world history and in Anglo-American relations. Access to this archive is now free and open to schools, and I’d like to invite you to register your school today.
Andy Mink
Board of Directors, National Council for Social Studies
Board of Directors, National Council for History Education
Distinguished Speaker, Organization of American Historians
ANOTHER NCSS OPPORTUNITY
The American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) has partnered with NCSS in a variety of ways. Here is an opportunity for teachers in your states.
ABOTA is hosting a National Teachers Law School for social studies administrators on Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2016. We are now accepting applications through April 22ndand would love to get the word out about this to the CS4 group.
This is a wonderful all-expense-paid trip for 45 social studies educators from across the country. You can visit this link for more details and registration info:www.regonline.com/nationalteacherslawschool
And, as always, thank you for your continued support!
Sincerely,
Tamara Sivachelvan
Civics Education Director
ABOTA Foundation
Direct: (214) 239-0226
Cell: (972) 898-5310
Email: tamaras@abota.org
J.R. Clifford Project
Friends of Blackwater’s is offering copies of the recently published “Stories from West Virginia’s Civil Rights History,” by Tom Rodd, to schoolteachers across the state — for FREE! The stories are suitable for middle- and high-school students, and include vocabulary and discussion sections. The stories are “J.R. Clifford and the Carrie Williams Case,” and a story on the creation of West Virginia in the midst of the Civil War titled “A New Home for Liberty.”
To obtain one or more free copies, contact Brandae Mullins at 304-345-7663 x2 or outreach@saveblackwater.org.
Printing costs were covered by a Community Participation Grant from the West Virginia Legislature and a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council allows Friends of Blackwater to distribute the books at no cost.
In addition, the grant allowed us to hold a special event on October 30, 2015 at the West Virginia University Law School — celebrating the life of Carrie Williams. Carrie Williams was an African American school teacher who taught in the Town of Coketon, at the head of the Blackwater Canyon. She and her lawyer J.R. Clifford challenged limited schooling for black children in Tucker County, and won in front of the West Virginia Supreme Court in 1898, setting a national precedent!! Her descendants attended the October celebration and received a citation in her honor!
For more information about the book and the October event, please visit http://www.jrclifford.org. You can also find The J.R. Clifford Project on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/jrcliffordproject/
Brandae Mullins
Friends of Blackwater
501 Elizabeth Street, Charleston, WV 25311
Phone: 304-345-7663 x2
Cell: 304-881-9016
Geography Intern Program
| Geography Intern Program Now Accepting Applications |
The National Geographic Society’s Geography Intern Program application process for 2016 is up and running. Click here to access the application. |
Innovation Award
| EPA Invites Applications for the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators |
| Applications are now being accepted for the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), administers this award to honor, support, and encourage educators who incorporate environmental education in their classrooms and teaching methods.
This program recognizes outstanding K-12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context for learning for their students. Up to two teachers from each of the EPA’s 10 regions will be selected to receive this award. Applicants will be evaluated based on five primary factors: innovation, achievement, service to the community and underserved populations, leadership, and integration of environmental education.
Applications are due May 16, 2016. For details on how to apply, visit: https://www.epa.gov/education/presidential-innovation-award-environmental-educators
Read about previous winners at: http://www.epa.gov/education/presidential-innovation-award-environmental-educators-piaee-winners. |
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