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NYSCSS Convention 2022

Join us for professional development in March 2022 that will engage, empower and inspire you in the Social Studies classroom.   We are planning for an in-person convention, and attendees that register for the full convention will have access to recordings of all presentation sessions through April 2022.  In-person registration includes breakfast and lunch on Thursday and Friday, and a continental breakfast on Saturday morning.  Workshop sessions focus on connections in and for the classroom, teaching strategies to engage today’s learner and innovations for a new era in Social Studies.

Registration Now Open

Thursday, March 10, 2022
7:30-4:00
Breakfast and Lunch
2 Keynote Speakers
President’s Reception
  • New Ideas for Constructed Response Questions
  • How should we teach about Racist Texts and Imagery?
  • FlipGrid for Social Studies: Facilitating Student-Led Video Discussion Forums about Current Events
  • Ready, Text Sets, Go! Starting Hard Conversations with Text Sets
  • Leveraging the Civic Seal of Readiness to Empower Students
  • SS/ELA: Purpose and Practice in the Pandemic
  • Sports & Athletes: A Force for Unity or Division in Today's America
  • NYSED Update: Civic Readiness and the Diploma Seal
  • NYSED Assessment Update: Global History & Geography
Friday, March 11, 2022
7:30-4:30
Breakfast and Lunch
2 Keynote Speakers
2022 Awards Ceremony
Networking Event
  • Organic Primary Source Lesson Design: Research, Formation, & Implementation
  • Fostering Civil Discourse: How do we talk about issues that matter?
  • Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies
  • Engaging Students to be Citizens of the World
  • Implementing a Cultural Proficiency Framework
  • The Brain & Social Studies
  • Clinic: Teaching the History of Racist Policy and Resistance in Rochester:  A Case Study in Anti Racist Curriculum
  • NYSED Assessment Update: U.S. History & Government
Saturday, March 12, 2022
8:30-11:30
Continental Breakfast
Clinics: 
  • Pedagogy you can rely on: Teaching the SEQ #2 USHG Regents Task
  • Awarding the NYSED Civics Diploma Seal - Pilot Schools Panel
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NYCSS 2022 Distinguished Educator Award Acceptance Speech

They say why do you write so many songs that are indigenous to the area from which you come? I guess because thats where we're from. 
Gord Downie
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