JCPS Social Studies
Issue #35 2.14.22
JCPS SOCIAL STUDIES Newsletter Issue #35
Social Studies Colleagues,
As we move towards spring, we know that many of you are turning your attention to the upcoming assessments our students will face, mainly the Kentucky Summative Assessment. We want to encourage you to continue to build the scaffolding of practicing the priority inquiry standards in every lesson. By developing the skills identified in the inquiry standards, we can give students their best chance of navigating and accessing this new assessment. While we recognize this assessment is ambitious, we also have great hopes for how it will one day become the floor for what we consider student achievement, not the ceiling. We are here to support and champion!
Ryan New, Rebecca Ingram, Vincent Tinker
Top 5 on this Issue
NEW KSA Information!
Curriculum Updates
PD Opportunities
Community Event Opportunities
Student Participation Opportunities
What's New!
New KSA Information!
KDE has released information about the structure and timing of the KSA operational test for Social Studies. Please see the resource linked below for updated information and consideration for preparation for the KSA for Social Studies.
Curriculum Tracker: January Data
The following shows our progress on the curriculum. We have prioritized 5th-8th grades, but are working on all contents. On the top, Lessons Complete and Lessons to Go show us where we are in the total. The green is the good news. 566 completed lessons from us, DBQ, and SHEG are complete and linked with sources. The red is the challenge with 589 lessons to go. Each lesson, with sources, takes around 4-6 hours to complete. If you have anything to help, let us know.
CF Lesson Tracker - SS CF Tracker 2.4.22Website Usage by Curriculum Pages: January Page views
Geographic reach of the website: January
Professional Learning
JCPS Social Studies PD Opportunities
Our Next series of DBQ Learning Opportunities begins in March!
Strategies to Effectively Scaffold Advanced Placement FRQs
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
3:00-5:00 pm Live Session
5:00-6:00 pm Asynchronous work session for implementation
Join Allison Cecil and Merritt Robinson from Manual to learn strategies to breakdown FRQ writing with your students. Participants will design an implementation plan for their classrooms during the session along with a goal for increasing AP scores for the 2022 exam administration. This professional learning session addresses the writing needs of students in some Advanced Placement classes (primarily AP Human Geography, AP Psychology, AP Government, AP Environmental Science, AP Economics).
Sign up using PD Central Code 21-22118996
Community Learning Opportunities
Black History Nerds Saturday School
February 19, 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Teaching Black History to White People
Dr. Leonard Moore, University of Texas-Austin
Click Here for Registration
Leonard Moore has been teaching Black history for twenty-five years, mostly to white people. Drawing on decades of experience in the classroom and on college campuses throughout the South, as well as on his own personal history, Moore illustrates how an understanding of Black history is necessary for everyone.
With Teaching Black History to White People, which is “part memoir, part Black history, part pedagogy, and part how-to guide,” Moore delivers an accessible and engaging primer on the Black experience in America. Moore includes a syllabus and other tools for actionable steps that white people can take to move beyond performative justice and toward racial reparations, healing, and reconciliation.February 26, 2022 11:00 am - 11:45 am EST
The Hill Project, a Black Studies Curriculum
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Click Here for Registration
The Hill Project is a Black studies curriculum developed by Dr. Muhammad and other curriculum writers. In this session, she will describe the nuances of teaching through the curriculum in schools. Her Historically Responsive Literacy/Culturally & Historically Responsive Education Model has been adopted across U.S. school districts.
102ND NCSS Annual Conference
December 2-4, 2022 Philadelphia, PA
Click here for more information on this year's conference.
Click here to submit a proposal by February 28, 2022
5th Annual Teaching Black History Conference
July 22-24, 2022 Hybrid Conference
Hosted by the University of Buffalo's Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education
Click Here for more information and to submit proposals by March 5, 2022
SAVE THE DATE!
Frazier History Museum - Cool Kentucky Series
Trailblazing KY Women
Saturday, April 16, 2022 | 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
For this engaging session we are thrilled to partner with Carly Muetterties, Director of Learning Design at Newsela and co-author of the book “Bluegrass Bold: Stories of Kentucky Women”. Carly will share how teachers can incorporate the stories of “Bluegrass Bold” into their classrooms based upon state standards. We will discuss ways educators can enrich their social studies and literacy instruction or have a springboard for student civic engagement projects.
Participating educators will be entered into a drawing for a chance to receive a classroom copy of the book. In addition, teachers will enjoy a guided tour focusing on trailblazing women in the Cool Kentucky exhibition and hear from our friends at Kentucky to the World regarding the terrific educational resources they provide.
Click Here for more information.
Registration opens March 16th!
Contact Rebecca.Ingram@jefferson.kyschools.us for PD Credit.
Student Participation Opportunities
2022 CIVICS ESSAY & VIDEO CONTEST FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
Sponsored by Federal Judges Association & Federal Bar Association
This year's topic: What Types of Student Speech Should a School Control?
The contest is open to high school students (grades 9-12) with a first place prize of $1,500! Students may submit written essays or video essays. Submissions are due March 1, 2022.
Click Here for more information on rules and submission requirements!
Grant Funding: Free Programming to Title I Schools
LG&E AND KU Foundation in support of Frazier Museum
The Frazier Museum education team is excited to announce a 2022 grant award from the LG&E and KU Foundation that will support free programming for Title I schools in Kentucky! Funding will cover on-site field trips, outreach performances at schools, virtual field trips, and teacher professional development.
To learn more about program options or make reservation click here.
Please direct any question to education@fraziermuseum.org.
