Secondary Level-High School

Global Leadership is a global issues course that focuses on social and environmental justice through service learning and leadership skill development. Learn teaching strategies for use in any classroom.

When students connect with another high school it allows them to expand their audience, create a PLC, and share opinions, works, and ideas across state lines - they love it!!

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.

Where does your coffee come from? Why does it matter? Hands-on materials to teach students the economic and social implications of our daily cuppa informed by time in the field.

A fundamental concept in microeconomics is the efficiency of free markets, maximizing societal welfare. The purpose of my presentation is to examine key areas where efficiency eludes the free market.

Using a sociocultural approach to teaching global current events to high school students. This interactive approach teaches students how to deconstruct the news, and reconstruct their understanding of the world.

This session will bring the magic of summer camp activities to the classroom to engage students in innovative learning experiences that promote the necessary skills to be active democratic citizens.