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First Day as Social Studies Director
A challenging choose-your-own-adventure . . . -
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C-FB Social Studies - The Journey
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Blair Elementary
How DO you teach Social Studies to a Kindergartener? A fact-finding mission that ended with a request from teachers to integrate SS and ELA. -
Teachers College RWP
Immersion into the Reading and Writing Workshop - and with it came the realization that secondary social studies has a great deal to learn about reading and writing in the content areas. -
Curriculum Writing - Year 1
First K-11 Curriculum Team
- Clarifications for revised TEKS
- New scope and sequence & year-at-a-glance
- Culled old lessons
- Updated elementary UbDs
- Added learning targets aligned with a performance task
- Found places to integrated elementary ELA & SS
- MS & HS assessments (Common Unit Tests) -
Thinking Through the End of Your Pencil...Every Day
The Checklist
Authentic Literacy
Strategies Flip Ring:
- Reading
- Writing
- Questioning
- Social Studies Matters -
Smokey Daniels
Modeling Think Alouds (50 times!)
Use coding
Membership Grid & Social Skills
Text Sets
Reading Visual Images "My job is not so much to generate brand new ideas as it is to spread rare but promising practices to a wider audience."
Text-on-Text -
First Social Studies Monday
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Finished last of 58 common district assessments
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Curriculum Writing - Year 2
Historical Thinking Matters - Sam Wineburg's Website
Why Won't You Just Tell Us the Answer? - Bruce Lesh's book Curriculum Work:
- Blueprints based on Susan Brookhart's work
- Bundled TEKS into Learning Targets
- Revising Assessments & UbD framework for Secondary
- 11th US miracle
- Lessons and Assessments for Elementary
- 2nd, 4th, 7th , & 10th underway -
5th Grade Pull-Out - Social Studies Alive!
All campuses received teacher materials, a class set of textbooks and excellent training by Monica Thorpe and Steve Sonksen. 5th grade team created! -
World History Happiness #1
Collaborating to prepare for the WH EOC
- Unit 3: Post-Classical Era -
8th Grade Pull-Out #1
Amelliorating Pacing Crisis - agreed to meet again in the spring to see how the year went -
TCSS Conference
8 Teachers attended Texas Council for the Social Studies Conference and brought back terrific ideas to share with their colleagues. -
World History Happiness #2
Unit 4 - Connecting Hemispheres -
7th Grade Pull-Out #1
Readjusted Pacing Calendar & Units
Agreed to use DBQ Project for 3 summatives
Texas State Historical Association - Steve Cure
- Shared resources & info about upcoming conferences
Historical Investigation - Derik Hulsebus
Map & lesson resources - Tina Melcher's wikispaces site
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World History Happiness #3 + 3 World Geo
Unit 5 - Revolutions & World Geography Collaboration -
Elementary Curriculum Day #1
Developing lessons for 3rd 9 weeks -
Elementary Curriculum #2
Developing lessons for 3rd 9 weeks -
MSSSA - Vertical Alignment
Plano, Denton, & Lewisville Coordinators shared their year of work: K-5/8 Vertical Alignment & K-5 Glossary -
World History Happiness #4
Unit 6 - 20th Century -
World Geography Curriculum
Curriculum Writers - Assessments, Unit & planned for WG Pull-Out on March 8 -
7th Grade Pull-Out #2
DBQ Project & Reading and Writing Strategies -
Elementary Curriculum #3
Developing 4th 9 weeks lessons -
Elementary Curriculum #4
Developing 4th 9 weeks curriculum -
World Geography Pull-Out #1
Update onEOC Item Analysis, Planned Final Exam, Looked at latest CUTs,One Minute Map, REading & Writing Strategies -
6th Grade Pull-Out #1
Vertical Alignment & Reading/Writing strategies - will follow up with 9th grade Curriculum writers on May 21st
