Connect with us at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference 2024!
We'll be at Booth 622 on November 22 (9am-6pm) and November 23 (8am-4pm) to share resources, professional development opportunities, and swag. We hope to see you there!
Join us at the following sessions:
Reading Like a Historian Lessons and Beyond the Bubble Assessments
TPS Poster | 9:10-10:40am, November 22 | Hall D; Table 33
DIG Speaker: Joel Breakstone, Executive Director
Learn about curriculum and assessments designed by the Digital Inquiry Group that incorporate documents from the Library of Congress’s archives. Participants will receive access to free inquiry-based curriculum materials.
The Democratic Imperative for Civic Digital Literacy
Vital Issues | 9:45-10:40am, November 22 | Room 210
DIG Speaker: Sam Wineburg, Co-founder
Join us for a discussion about the proliferation of misinformation and the urgent need to teach students to effectively search for, evaluate, and verify social and political information online—and preview an exciting new resource for doing precisely that!
Check, Please! Civic Digital Literacy for Democracy Today
Session | 1:55-2:50pm, November 22 | Room 202
DIG Speaker: Joel Breakstone, Executive Director
Check out how fact checkers evaluate information while exploring your new go-to curriculum to support civics students in becoming better consumers of online content. Experience one of the new dynamic lessons and walk away with free resources for classroom use!
Roadmap to Reality: “Educating for American Democracy” in Elementary Grades
Poster | 11:25am-12:20pm, November 23 | Hall D; Table 11
DIG Speaker: Joel Breakstone, Executive Director
Discover lessons from elementary sites across the country using the Educating for American Democracy (EAD) Roadmap to revitalize history and civic learning. Participants will hear from sites creating lessons with public elementary schools in Los Angeles, New York, and Missouri, and an EAD-aligned, state-wide professional development initiative in Wisconsin.