NCSS Smartbrief
Designed specifically for NCSS Members and Colleagues, NCSS SmartBrief is a FREE, 3-times-weekly e-mail newsletter. By providing the latest need-to-know industry news and information, NCSS saves you time and keeps you smart. Click here to subscribe.
Updated: 1 day 7 hours ago
Digital tool aids teacher collaboration, development
Google Hangouts can help schools improve professional development and communication, writes Ben Johnson, an education consult -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Idaho students connect with children who are orphans in Africa
An art program called the Memory Project is helping connect art students at Idaho's Pocatello High School with children in or -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Students gain job skills as volunteers at Ill. zoo
The Brookfield Zoo in Illinois offers volunteer opportunities for students with disabilities aimed at helping them gain skill -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Deadline for 2013 NCSS Annual Conference proposals
Today, Monday, Feb. 25, is the deadline to submit a proposal to present a session at the 2013 NCSS Annual Conference in St. -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Conducting Socratic seminars: A leader's workshop with a focus on primary source documents from U.S. history
This NCSS Summer Professional Development Workshop, taught by nationally recognized Socratic seminar trainer John Zola, will -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
It is wonderful how much news there is when people write every other day; if they wait for a month, there is nothing that seems worth telling.
Anna Masterton Buchan,Scottish writer -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Artist-in-residency blends history, performance at Neb. school
Artist and teacher Fax Gilbert turns history lessons into performances as he travels the Midwest, inspiring students as they -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
N.J. district's schools teach black history across the curriculum
Lessons on African-American history span schools' curriculum in Ocean City, N.J., where students are learning about jazz and -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Calif. district drops health, geography from graduation requirements
The school board for Temecula Valley Unified School District in California voted Tuesday to immediately halt requirements tha -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Education layoffs loom ahead of federal sequestration
Across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, scheduled to take effect next week, will have a dramatic effect -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Ohio schools are urged to share technology resources
Leaders in Ohio are encouraging school districts to look for opportunities to share technology resources to improve efficienc -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Mo. district administers computer survey to teachers, students
The Granite City School District in Missouri is using a 15-minute computer survey to determine what the district is doing wro -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Network helps teachers use video games in the classroom
-More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Fla. high school teaches students how to serve the community
A Florida high school is offering an Engaged Citizenship course, in which students learn how to successfully complete communi -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
"Lincoln" movie prompts Miss. man to make historic vote official
The Oscar-nominated film "Lincoln" has refocused attention to the events leading up to the end of slavery in the U.S., but it -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Pair of fifth-graders set the standard for respect at Fla. school
-More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
Deadline for 2013 International Social Studies Conference
The deadline for registering for the 2013 International Social Studies Conference in Fez, Morocco, is Feb. 25. -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
2013 NCSS Board of Directors election
NCSS members, please remember to vote in the 2013 Board of Directors Election. Individuals who were NCSS members as of Dec. -More-
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Maine
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. Somerset Maugham,British writer -More-
Categories: Education News, Smartbrief
