Welcome Dr. Lori Carlin to the K-12 Social Studies and Arts Education Team!

Lori Carlin is a lifelong educator with a deep commitment to North Carolina Public Schools. After graduating from Clemson University, she became a Theatre Arts teacher in Chatham County. During her tenure, she completed her doctorate in Educational Research and Policy Analysis at NC State University and served in a variety of leadership roles.  In 2013, Lori became the Public Information Officer and Arts Education Coordinator for Chatham County Schools, where she led these areas and participated in state initiatives such as state standards writing and assessment. In the last few years she has served as an educational researcher and consultant focusing on student engagement, school culture, strategic planning, and professional development. In that role, she worked with school systems both in North Carolina and in various states across the country.

Lori Carlin is excited about working at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. She is ready and looking forward to facing the new experiences and opportunities that will come about from working with the Social Studies and Arts Education Team. If you would like to welcome Lori, her email is Lori.Carlin@dpi.nc.gov .

Financial Literacy Webinars

If you missed the Financial Literacy Webinars during Financial Literacy Month, you can access them HERE .

Attention Teachers of American History: Founding Principles, Civics, and Economics

~Did you know that there are 13 Founding Principles required by N.C. law to be taught in the American History: Founding Principles, Civics, and Economics Course?

~Are you currently teaching all 13 of the “Principles” which have been identified by the N.C. General Assembly?

If you would like to learn more about the Founding Principles contained in the legislation and discuss some ways in which you might be able to make sure all of them are incorporated in your curriculum, consider taking the Founding Principles course in Canvas. You will earn 2.0 CEUs and reflect on some of the Founding Principles you may already be teaching as well as plan ways to integrate those you are not currently teaching.

If interested, fill out this form. When asked the name of the course, put in “Founding Principles”. The course will run from June 10 – Aug 9.

Registration ends June 7, 2019.

Contact Tom Daugherty with any questions.

2019-2020 World View Global Music Fellows Program Integrating Global Music Across the Curriculum  

July 2019 through April 2020
Application deadline May 29, 2019

K-12 and community college educators of all disciplines from World View partner institutions are invited to apply to the 2018 World View Global Music Fellows Program. This interdisciplinary professional learning opportunity will enhance educators’ global competency skills and expand educators’ pedagogical toolkits for integrating music into their curricula. This program culminates in the creation of a comprehensive teaching toolkit with background information, lesson plans, learning activities and educator resources designed to integrate global music into K-12 and community college classrooms. The teaching toolkit will accompany an original album by Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei, to be released in the spring of 2020.  This selective program will accept a total of 12 fellows from World View partner institutions representing a variety of disciplines across K-5, 6-8, 9-12 and community college.

The following program costs are covered for participating fellows:

• Registration fees for a World View workshop in July to explore integrating global music across the curriculum 
• Dinner and lodging in Chapel Hill for one night during the July workshop
• Admission and registration fees for a select Fall 2019 Carolina Performing Arts global music performance and World View mini-workshop

Fellows who successfully complete all program requirements:

• Will be eligible for up to 5 CEUs or 50 PDCH
• Will earn a stipend of $500
• Will receive program materials including digital and print resources

GLOBAL EDUCATION LEADERS PROGRAM

UNC-Chapel Hill  

June 17-21, 2019

Spend five days in Chapel Hill with World View and immerse yourself in global learning! Today’s globally connected world requires that we prepare students to become globally competent citizens who are able to work collaboratively across cultures. World View’s Global Education Leaders Program brings together current and aspiring leaders from K-12 schools, districts and community colleges. Together we will examine global issues that impact students and their communities. Participants are led by expert university faculty as they engage in dialogue about key global topics and explore leadership strategies to support global education initiatives in classrooms, schools and campuses.

APPLY TODAY!

For more information or to apply, please visit:

https://worldview.unc.edu/programs/2019-gelp/  

Flamenco Vivo Guide: Teachers Needed

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana is a professional Flamenco dance company established in 1983 by Carlota Santana and Roberto Lorca. The Company is based in New York City, North Carolina and Madrid and was founded with the vision of promoting a forum whereby new, Spanish dance works and music, could be created, developed and presented to the general audiences

Ms. Santana is also deeply involved in integrating Hispanic-American influences into the Company’s work; in the development of young artists; and in promoting Hispanic culture through national performances and Arts Education programming. The Company’s innovative Arts-in-Education programs, integrating Spanish dance and culture with the school curriculum, have achieved wide recognition and success in many important theaters and in schools, nationwide and internationally.

Flamenco Vivo  is looking for a  social studies teacher who would be interested in working with us to refine our Classroom Curriculum Guide on Spanish Dance and to create lesson plans.  The Guide includes map studies/Latin American and Spanish maps/information on various dances in Mexico/Colombia/Cuba and Spain and the interconnectedness of their cultures.

For more information, please contact Carlota Santana at carlota@flamenco-vivo.org or visit the website  (https://flamenco-vivo.org/ ).

Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM), celebrating the achievements and contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Below is a brief history of the APAHM:     

“In June 1977, Reps. Frank Horton of New York and Norman Y. Mineta of California introduced a House resolution to proclaim the first ten days of May as Asian-Pacific American Heritage week. The following month, Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Spark Matsunaga from Hawaii introduced a similar bill in the Senate. Both were passed and on October 5, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a Joint Resolution designating the annual celebration.

In 1990, President George H. W. Bush signed a bill passed by Congress to extend the week-long celebration to a month-long celebration. In 1992, the official designation of May as Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month was signed into law. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.”

History from Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Resources:

• Short Video of the History
• Asia at the Smithsonian
• Teacher Resources
• Primary Sources: Exhibits and Collections, Audio Video , and Images
• Resources from NEA
• US Department of Education Resources
• Smithsonian Institute Learning Lab Resources

State Library of North Carolina Digital Resources

Would you like to give your students the opportunity to learn history from original primary sources?

 The North Carolina Digital Collections brings the State Archives to you with a searchable database that has over 90,000 historic photographs, documents, and other sources relating to North Carolina. Visit the Information for Educators page for ideas on how to use these primary sources in your classroom and lessons. Speaking of lessons, the North Carolina State Archives has developed a series of lesson guides for easy use. 

You can also enliven the past in your classroom with online videos on demand from the North Carolina Museum of History. Trying to teach early North Carolina history in your classroom? Visit the Birth of Colony page to watch the Emmy Award-winning film about North Carolina's history from the arrival of Europeans to the end of the Tuscarora War in 1713, along with supporting educational materials for the classroom. Browse other available resource topics here.

Teacher Inquiry Creations 

Do you want to help guide the curiosity of our students and develop a deeper understanding with historical thinking skills?

With a district wide focus on disciplinary literacy across K-12 as a starting point, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has focused efforts on careful selection of text, fostering student questioning, close reading strategies, and finally, academic conversations. The teachers have been hard at work creating new inquiries. Below are some great examples!

• Was the Cold War avoidable? – a 9th grade inquiry by Julie Hellerstein – Download Here
• Industrial Revolution – A 7th grade Inquiry by Kristen Wawer – Download Here
• How can I be a responsible citizen? – an adapted inquiry unit by Carrie Alexander, Stacey Hoy, and Shawnta Person – Download Here

For more information about CMS Social Studies Inquiries, click here

K-12 Social Studies Google Sites
 

IMPORTANT UPDATE: On January 31st, Wikispaces, the company that hosts all of the DPI wikis, went out of business.

Google Sites now serves as a central hub for Social Studies educators, administrators, institutions of higher education, and other interested parties. This hub houses the repositories, communications, and recommended resources related to the implementation of the North Carolina Social Studies Standard Course of Study (SCoS). Social Studies educators are encouraged to browse, reference, download, share, discuss, and adapt resources. Use the navigation menu to access information and resources.

REMEMBER, K-12 Social Studies resources and information can always be found on the shelves of our current LiveBinders.  Click this K-12 SS LiveBinders hyperlink to access all social studies materials! 

The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society Grant

The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society’s mission is lighthouse preservation and education. The group formed in 1994, primarily to work for funds to restore the Bodie Island Lighthouse. Because of other events that happened with lighthouses in NC, the involvement in addressing and advocating those needs was spread.

About ten years ago, a Lighthouse Travel Grant was created to aid children in visiting the lighthouses in NC. Countless fourth graders and scout troops have been sent to many of our lighthouses. The grant is for $1000 and we award four each year. The grant applications are due in late January, but letting teachers and PTA groups know about it now will afford them time to start making plans for 2020.  Here is a link to our teachers’ page: https://www.outerbankslighthousesociety.org/teachers.html where they can find a link to the grant on the left.  There, they will also find a teachers’ resource to guide in teaching about NC’s lighthouses.

Also, The Outer Banks Lighthouse Society has a public outreach program where we can send one of our members to give presentations to (primarily) fourth graders about lighthouses.  This is only available in Wake and surrounding counties, Carteret, Dare, Hyde, and New Hanover Counties and when members are available. of developing A video about our towers is also being developed and will be put on the website, https://www.outerbankslighthousesociety.org/ , soon. Interested people may contact Bett Padgett, at bett@bettpadgett.com or 919-264-3075.

Additional Awards and Grants

• NCSS and the Research Committee sponsor three annual research awards designed to recognize substantive scholarly inquiry in social studies education
  
  
• The Christa McAuliffe Reach for the Stars Award's $2,500 grant is to help a social studies educator make his or her dream of innovative social studies a reality. 
  
  
• List of Educational Grants