Supervisory-Administrative

"Essential standards are gaining popularity as a way to ensure coverage of core content. In the process, they may be reducing history instruction to lists of names, dates, and facts."

This session will investigate the structures to running an effective book club as a form of ongoing professional development. Strategies for creating curricular and discipline based thinking are included.

"Join us on a videotape journey through a pre-planning session, a lesson study, and the debriefing. Planning and assessment tools for the use of lesson study will be shared. "

"How can we best prepare students for their futures, how well are we doing, and how do we know? More specifically, how do American students perform relative to their international counterparts, what does this tell us, and what can we learn from others?

"Results from the largest national survey of SS teachers ever conducted. Find out who is teaching, how they're teaching, what they're teaching, and what they think about SS. "

"Learn how civically engaging students through service-learning is a proven methodology for reducing dropout rates, building resiliency, and motivating students to become successful learners and effective citizens."

"This roundtable session examines critical issues in standardized assessment -- including both ends and means, principles and practices -- from local, state, national, and global perspectives. "

The 2012 Presidential Election Year is almost here. Get students engaged by joining the Kids Voting program. Learn about the Civics Alive curriculum and opportunities for an authentic voting experience.

"Who, what, why, how do we teach? How do we assess? Teaching and professional development using the new NCSS Curriculum Standards and a Harvard-developed curriculum framework promotes essential learning. "