Poster Session

Blended learning combines face-to-face learning with the affordances of online learning spaces and real world experiences. Join two teachers to discuss the successes and challenges of blended learning.

With audience participation and tools from the Center for Media Literacy, Kidd Rock's "American Warrior" music video is deconstructed to model a versatile strategy for critical thinking & media literacy.

This session will provide high school teachers with curriculum used to incorporate local and regional histories into their American History courses, emphasizing the methods used by historians.

Teaching Tolerance resources marry multicultural content with culturally relevant instructional strategies. Our materials help teachers engage diverse students with effective strategies while exploring social justice issues. New materials distributed!

Step into 1920s New York with stops at the Plaza Hotel, Harlem, and Gatsby's roaring parties. Mini lessons will incorporate multiple methods for bringing literature and the past to life.

With so many engaging experiments, demonstrations, and activities, how can you teach it all in one semester? Explore ways to fit in seven domains in a short window of time.

Experience how utilizing new media techniques triggers immediate and exponential growth in understanding. Intertwining superficial entertainment with deep content allows students to use digital language in academic settings.

Utilizing current research from all fields of social studies, teachers will learn how to incorporate universal values within their daily instruction. All of these values connect through OPENness.

iWitness, a free resource from the USC Shoah Foundation, bridges Holocaust education and multi-literacies. IWitness allows students to construct knowledge and expand inquiry skills through interaction with digital survivor testimony.

Educating the next generation of active, informed citizens.