NCSS Annual Conference: Speakers & Highlights
Attendees are invited to choose from more than 400 sessions,
workshops, and clinics, as well as the invited speeches and vital
issues sessions listed below.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Geneva Gay: Professor of Education at University of Washington-Seattle and author of Becoming Multicultural Educators: Personal Journey Toward Professional Agency.
"Making Social Studies Culturally Responsive to Ethnically, Culturally, and Racially Diverse Students"
Jorge Klor de Alva:
President, Latin America Operations, Apollo Group, Inc. Former Class of
1940 Professor University of California, Berkeley, and Professor of
Anthropology, Princeton University.
"Rounding Out Students for a Flat Earth" Jamie McKenzie: Editor of From Now On˘The Educational Technology Journal, a Web-based "ZINE" and former Director of Libraries, Media and Technology for the Bellingham (WA) Public Schools.
"The Brave New Citizen" and "A Digital Sandbox? Wondering With and About Numbers, Words and Images"
Hiroshi Motomura: Kenan Distinguished Professor of Law at University of North Carolina and author of Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States.
"Immigration Policy: Where is the Common Ground?"
Loung Ung: Cambodian American human rights activist and author of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, named as one of the "100 Global Leaders of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum.
Speaking on her life and work with the Campaign for a Landmine Free World
VITAL ISSUES SESSIONS
"What Effective Urban Educators Need to Know and Be Able to Do"
Featuring Cynthia Tyson, Ceola Ross Baber, Loraine Stewart, and John Moore
"Revitalizing Elementary Social Studies"
Featuring Margit McGuire, Janet Alleman, and Rahima Wade
"Environmental Citizenship"
Featuring Gilbert Grosvenor, Richard Boehm, Stephen Cunha, Harm DeBlij, and Michal Levasseur
"Cross Border Issues"
Featuring educational leaders from Baja California
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