NCSS Communities
Network with other NCSS members to seek advice, share your knowledge, and connect with other members who share your concerns. Go to NCSS Communities to read about what each community is doing. They can now conduct business via e-mail all year long, in addition to meeting at the Annual Conference.

NCSS Annual Conference 2008
Join thousands of your social studies colleagues at the NCSS Annual Conference, this November 14 - 16, 2008, in Houston, TX.
Learn more about the conference

Strengthen Your Credentials
Our listings of professional development opportunities -- from workshops to calls for participation -- will keep you connected with your colleagues and your career on track.
View the latest listings

Celebrate Excellence! Awards & Grants
NCSS recognizes the best in social studies education with award and grant programs that highlight teachers, programs, research, service, and more.
Learn more about NCSS awards and grants

State and Regional Councils
NCSS supports and affiliates with orgainizations of social studies educators that thrive in most of the 50 United States.
Go to www.socialstudies.org/community to learn about regional, state, and local councils and their meetings.

Setting the Standards
Expect excellence from your students and yourself. The NCSS standards for curriculum--and teacher education--are the framework used nationwide for educational excellence.
NCSS Curriculum Standards
NCSS Teacher Standards

Literacy Coaching
In response to the need to support adolescents as they acquire and use literacy in and out of school, many districts in the United States are hiring "literacy coaches" to lead school-based professional development of subject area teachers in middle and high schools.
In a project supported by the Carnegie Corporation, the International Reading Association has joined with the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, National Council for the Social Studies, and the National Science Teachers Association to publish standards delineating what effective coaches must know and be able to do.
Learn more about these Coaching Standards