NSCSS Conference: Standards in a Time of Unrest
Purpose
Our organization will assume a leadership role in education in Nebraska, create a collaborative space for all Social Studies organizations in the state to operate, and to serve the interest of members of the National Council for the Social Studies and this state's affiliation.
Welcome Presentation from Carol Mathias
President of the Nebraska State Council for the Social Studies
Sheryl Silver Ochayon is program director of Echoes and
Reflections at Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance
Center, in Jerusalem, Israel. Echoes and Reflections is a
professional development program that prepares American
educators to responsibly and effectively teach the Holocaust. Ms.
Ochayon received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has practiced law in
New York and Israel. Ms. Ochayon also has a graduate
certificate in Genocide Prevention from Stockton University in
Galloway, New Jersey. She is a tour guide for students and
adults, including internationally-recognized figures, at the
Holocaust History Museum and a licensed tour guide in Poland
for Israeli and American students, Israel Defense Forces, Israeli
police force, FIDF (Friends of the IDF) and Yad Vashem donors.
Laura Short is an Education Program Associate for Population Education (PopEd), a national non-profit program that supports teachers covering population and related environmental and social topics in the classroom, where she facilitates training workshops for K-12 educators throughout the US. Laura has extensive experience in outdoor and informal education. She was also an outdoor education teacher and Assistant Director of Auxiliary Programs at Congressional School in Falls Church, VA and spent 14 years as the Associate Director, Program Coordinator, and an environmental educator at Nature’s Classroom in Massachusetts. Laura earned her B.A. in International Relations from Wellesley College.
Handouts and slides for this presentation can be found here and here.After watching, please fill out this brief form for certificate of completion.
Click here to watch Literacy, Inquiry, and Multiple Perspectives in Social Studies presented by Beth Montgomery.
Handouts for this presentation can be found here.
After watching, please fill out this brief form for certificate of completion.
Click here to watch Combining Social Emotional Learning and Social Studies in Your Elementary Classroom presented by Nicole Padilla.
Click here to watch Engaging Congress presented by Dr. Elizabeth R. Osborn and Jennifer Jolley, NBCT.
ELIZABETH R. OSBORN is the Director of Education at the Indiana University Center on Representative Government. She is a part of the team that created the award-winning free civics interactive Engaging Congress. Dr. Osborn develops and directs all of the Professional Development offered by the Center including building a national cohort of teachers using Engaging Congress to incorporate civics into their daily teaching. Her work includes curriculum development, primary facilitator/presenter at workshops, follow up with teachers after trainings, , conferences presentations and other work related to the content. Dr. Osborn received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Indiana University in 2004; her dissertation examines the influence of culture and gender on constitution-making in antebellum Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Before joining the Center she was the creator of the Indiana Supreme Court’s nationally recognized education outreach program, “Courts in the Classroom.” In addition, she taught at several Indiana University locations (Bloomington, Columbus and Indianapolis), served as a teaching consultant at Indiana University in Bloomington, and taught high school social studies in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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