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This update contains the latest announcements and current news impacting K-12 Social Studies in North Carolina public schools. As always, we encourage those of you who receive the updates to please share this issue with others who are not currently subscribed to our listserv. To receive Social Studies Updates please sign up using the link Social Studies Listerv Update or follow us on Twitter.
Update includes:
OFFICE OF ACADEMIC STANDARDS UPDATES
PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
AWARDS, RECOGNITIONS, AND GRANTS
NCDPI Office of Academic Standards
Please visit: https://bit.ly/NC-IEW-Info for more information about IEW 2023.
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Academic Standards Yearlong Look
The Office of Academic Standards is excited to share a yearlong look of upcoming webinars, resources, and leaders’ meetings. This link will stay live and will be updated periodically. Please share!
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PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
2023-2024 Webinar Series: Spotlight on EPF
Join the 2023-2024 "Spotlight on EPF Webinar Series” to help enhance your teaching of the Economics and Personal Finance (EPF) course. The webinars will offer an opportunity for teachers to interact with educators who will share instructional strategies and how they utilize vetted teaching materials to make EPF lessons engaging and meaningful for students. The webinar presenters will guide you through various lessons and activities using resources that align with the North Carolina Standards for Economics and Personal Finance.
The first session, on October 25, 2023, from 4:00 pm-5:30 pm, will showcase teachers from Guilford County Schools who teach the EPF course, along with an EPF Specialist in Guilford County Schools. Additionally, there will be a leader from the nonprofit NextGen Personal Finance (NGPF) who will provide examples of their no-cost, standards-aligned personal finance materials that have been featured at EPF summer professional developments.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get instructional tools and strategies that you can add to your collection!
Register: https://bit.ly/EPFSpotlight_October
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Teaching Comparison
Join the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and OER Project on November 7, 2023 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET for a free session on teaching comparison.
Comparison is a skill that students learn from a very young age, but comparing historical events and processes is far more complicated than comparing apples and oranges. Helping students understand the historical thinking practice of comparison will help them grapple with various historical events. Being able to describe, compare, and contrast events in the same era or across periods is vital to a student’s greater understanding of history. Do not miss out on your chance to learn a few techniques for engaging in activities that will support your students’ acquisition of this skill.
This professional development session is one in a six-session series focused on the social studies skills and practices in the new Inquiry strand. Each session will run from 4:00 pm-5:30 pm EST. The six sessions in this PD series are:
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11/07/23 - Historical Thinking Skill: Comparison
- 02/06/24 – Historical Thinking Skill: Continuity and Change Over Time
- 03/05/24 – Historical Thinking Skill: Contextualization
- 04/02/24 – Geography Skills
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Historical Inquiry (Recording )
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Historical Thinking Skill: Causation (Recording)
Important Registration Details: You will need to first register with OER Project in order to attend each webinar.
REGISTER NOW!
For questions, please contact events@oerproject.com.
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 World History Webinar Series
Enhance your knowledge, pedagogy, and resources, for teaching topics in World History. Throughout the 2023-24 school year, NCDPI Social Studies will host a World History Webinar Series entitled Historical Journey’s Around the World: Busting Myths & Building Knowledge in 6,7, and World History Classrooms!
Webinar #2- Learning Oceania:
An Introduction to Pacific Worlds
Special guest presenter: Alexander Mawyer, Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies
Pacific Islanders inhabit a vast oceanic realm encompassing fully one-third of the surface of the earth. Today, increasingly referred to as Oceania, the region is also home to some of the most ancient and some of the most recent human settlements. Oceania is thus characterized by enormous ecological and cultural diversity; a human history rich in epic ritual, travel, historical narrative, and pressing contemporary issues. As a result of intense political and economic transformations, large numbers of Pacific people have moved away from their home islands to inhabit a diaspora spanning the globe, from Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand to Europe and North America.
Join us for an amazing discovery of this complex region of the world and its cultural diversity. Guest presenter, Dr. Alexander Mawyer is Director of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies and Acting Chair of the Department of Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM).
Don't forget to save the dates on your calendar NOW! Registration links for each session will be unique to each session and will be sent out at least a month in advance in a flyer via email and social media announcements.
- Feb. 20: History of Antisemitism – Jewish Life in Europe Before 1933
- Mar. 19: (Topic TBD)
- Apr. 16: (Topic TBD)
Register Here
Flyer - WORLD HISTORY SERIES - NCDPI - Oceania - November 2023.pdf
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The 2024 NC Social Studies Conference
The North Carolina Council for the Social Studies is an organization that serves its members and provides support to social studies educators. Each year, NCCSS invites K-16 educators from across North Carolina to come to their conference. The conference is two days of amazing sessions, fun networking opportunities, and more!
Visit the NCCSS website to learn more about:
- Registering for the state social studies conference
- Presenting a session at the conference
- Nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the NCCSS Board
- Applying for awards, grants, and scholarships
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Workshop for International Education Week: “Understanding Indigenous Cultures in Local and Global Communities”
Saturday, November 18, 2023 from 10:00 AM- 3:00 PM
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, in partnership with UNC and Duke Area Studies Centers, is pleased to offer a professional development opportunity as part of International Education Week (IEW) that can help to increase one's global understanding and perspective. To celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, the theme of this year's event is focused on indigenous communities worldwide, and is titled Understanding Indigenous Cultures in Local and Global Communities.
The in-person workshop will be at the FedEx Global Education Center in Chapel Hill. Attendees will receive 0.5 CEUs. Extension activities may be available to earn participants additional CEUs.
Register: https://areastudies.unc.edu/iew
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Education in ELA & Social Studies by learning about the Holocaust
Looking for ways to implement both Character Education and the Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act in ELA and Social Studies classrooms?
Learning about the Holocaust allows students to build character and develop skills like empathy and social awareness. In an effort to foster these skills, NCDPI partnered with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to create standards-based resources for implementation in secondary grades. These resources are based on using the texts Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Night by Elie Wiesel. The goal of the resources is for teachers to be able to embed both character education and Holocaust education seamlessly into the core curriculum.
Contact Thomas.Daugherty@dpi.nc.gov and Kelly.Schultz@dpi.nc.gov to set up a professional learning experience or to learn more about these resources and how they can be used in your classrooms.
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INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
NCDPI IEW Student Showcase
Are your students doing a project or performance that demonstrates that they are
globally aware and globally competent?
The NCDPI International Education Week Student Showcase is a great way for students to use an expressive mode of communication to demonstrate their global competency! It provides them an opportunity to share their interest and understanding of global issues, global learning, and cultural awareness through various projects, presentations, or work samples.
Student/School performances or presentations such as student work narratives, poetry, visual, media, or performing arts presentations, or student interviews are welcome. Submissions will be accepted now until the end of November. Approved submissions will be shared on the NCDPI social media pages, website, and International Education Week Hub on Canvas or invited to be performed live at NCDPI during IEW week.
Submissions could include photographs or PDF’s of written work, or a link to performance, presentation, or excerpt of students performing or narrating work demonstrating Global Education competencies from any of the following examples:
- Performance of a dance, song, piece of music or theatre excerpt
- Celebration of world languages and culture
- Read aloud of a poem, essay, creative writing or written work about Global Education
- Visual arts projects or portfolios, including virtual galleries or student/class/school work (examples: collage, paintings, drawings, pottery, etc.)
- Global studies projects, portfolios, or slide deck with narration
- Students sharing about Global Education and learning
- Essays or research projects
- Creative writing projects
- Film/multimedia projects
Education Day: American Indian Heritage Celebration
Educators and students, join online on November, 17, 2023 for this Cultural Education Day, in conjunction with the 28th annual American Indian Heritage Celebration. Register for interactive presentations and LIVE! performances, check out the available resources, and watch films from North Carolina’s state-recognized tribes and the museum’s Videos on Demand.
Register Today!
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State Library of North Carolina: Educator Survey
The State Library of North Carolina wants to hear from you about how to best serve educators! The Library is asking you to fill out a brief survey to tell them about your needs and what resources they can provide to help make your lives a little easier.
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Please take the survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCEducators2324 or by using the QR code. Please feel free to share with your colleagues because they would like to hear from as many educators as possible. Feedback will directly impact the services and resources that the State Library of NC provides. They appreciate you taking the time to share your perspectives.
Be sure to also check out the first issue of the SLNC Government and Heritage Library’s quarterly educator newsletter!
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N.C. History Day: Turning Points in History
N.C. History Day, an affiliate of National History Day® (NHD), is excited to explore “Turning Points in History” this school year with schools across the state!
NHD is a free program for 6th - 12th-grade students that works with all Social Studies classes no matter their geographical focus or time period. By participating in NHD, students become writers, filmmakers, web designers, playwrights, and artists while learning how to conduct research, formulate a historical argument, and present their findings.
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It is a project-based program that helps you meet the current Social Studies Inquiry Standards. NHD works as an in-class project, as a history club or afterschool program, and even independent study. This year we are excited to provide FREE access to WeVideo for Schools to any NHD students and their teachers needing online video editing tools.
The completely optional NHD contest season takes place in the spring semester and is an excellent way for students to build presentation and interview skills, gain academic recognition, and have a chance for prizes and special opportunities! We have 8 in-person regional contests, including our newest region based at UNC Pembroke, and a virtual region to try to make competitions accessible to all parts of the state.
To learn more about the program and free resources, please visit www.nchistoryday.org or contact the state program coordinator karen.ipock@dncr.nc.gov.
N.C. History Day is managed by the N.C. Dept. of Natural and Cultural Resources.
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AWARDS, GRANTS, AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Important Update: The US Senate Youth Program’s Social Media Channel
The United States Senate Youth Program's current page on the platform X, previously known as Twitter, will no longer be available after this cycle. It will remain active on the current US Senate Youth Program page until December 31, 2023.
Although the Senate Youth Program’s social media channel is going away, vital information such as deadlines, reminders, and resources will still be available to be accessed through several platforms, including the:
If you have any questions, contact Michelle McLaughlin, who is an NCDPI K-12 Social Studies Consultant and the U.S. Senate Youth Coordinator.
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Tryon Palace: Palace Scholars
Tryon Palace invites all educators at Title I schools in North Carolina to apply for a field trip award. Palace Scholars is an educational program linking students and educators from Title I schools with field trip opportunities to Tryon Palace. This program hopes to connect present and future North Carolinians with their state history in an engaging learning format.
Awards may be used for field trip costs, but are limited to transportation, admissions, and substitute teacher fees. Awards are based on attendance and expenses, and range from $600 to $2000 for the 2023-2024 School Year. Applications are now available and funding decisions are made monthly throughout the school year. Schools will be notified within 45 days of application.
Find the application by visiting the Tryon Palace Foundation Scholars' website.
Please submit your application using either the online form or by email to Kathy Peterson at Tryon Palace, at katherine.peterson@dncr.nc.gov or call (252) 639-3519.
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NCCSS Awards, Scholarships, and Grants
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 Awards from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
Applications are now open!
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Teacher of the Year: NCSS honors excellence in the social studies classroom with its Elementary, Middle, and Secondary Level Teacher of the Year Awards. Recipients are awarded a sum of $2,500 and a one-year comprehensive membership to NCSS.
- The Award for Global Understanding, given in Honor of James M. Becker, recognizes a social studies educator (or a team of educators) who has made notable contributions in helping social studies students increase their understanding of the world (Global Education).
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Research Awards are designed to recognize substantive scholarly inquiry in social studies education:
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The NCSS Outstanding Service Award recognizes and honors one or more NCSS members for outstanding long-term service to NCSS and a local, state, and regional council. Award winners receive a plaque or other appropriate recognition and will be granted lifetime membership in NCSS.
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Christa McAuliffe Reach for the Stars Award: Christa McAuliffe was an innovative social studies teacher who reached for the stars in an effort to make her dream of space travel a reality. The award ($2,500 grant) was established to help classroom teachers "reach for the stars" and achieve a dream that under ordinary circumstances would not be fulfilled.
- The Grant for the Enhancement of Geographic Literacy was created to promote geography education in schools; to enhance the geographic literacy of students at the classroom, district, or statewide level; and to encourage the integration of geography into the social studies curriculum/classroom.
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