The National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE), the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), and the Texas Council for the Social Studies (TCSS)  invite you to attend the largest gathering of K-12 social studies classroom teachers, college and university faculty members, curriculum designers and specialists, district and state social studies supervisors, international educators, and social studies discipline leaders in the country!

For more information and registration forms, go to: https://www.socialstudies.org/conference.

The following Saturday workshops will be presented for secondary teachers:

December 14, 2019: Teaching about Contemporary China through Youth Culture and Contemporary Social Issues.

February 29, 2020: Teaching Asia with Art at the Freer/Sackler.

March 7, 2020: Japan, Pop Culture, and the Olympics.

For more information and application form, click here.

The NCGE-GeoCamp Iceland Institute is a graduate-level equivalent, short course in geographic inquiry and field methods for in-service teachers and education professionals. Iceland’s extraordinary and unique landscapes will be our classroom and laboratory. The course will draw content from several important geographic themes including natural hazards and disaster prevention; human settlement and environmental adaptation; changing geopolitical spheres of influence; sense of place; and global environmental change. Icelandic field leaders will be our local guides.

Complete applications must be returned by Feb. 15, 2020. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by March 1, 2020. If accepted, a deposit of $1000 is due by March 15, 2020 to reserve your spot in the institute.

For  more information, click here.

Equity in Education Datathon will be held at Library of Virginia. Participants will take new and existing data sets and turn them into actionable information that will support the Commonwealth’s goal of using data and analytics to improve educational outcomes and promote equity. For more information go to: http://data.virginia.gov/pages/datathon2019.

The Virginia Geographic Alliance will host our annual AP Human Geography Academy at Christopher Newport University on October 11-13, 2019.  The theme of this year’s academy is “Resiliency and Change in Modern Urban Landscapes” and will feature professional speakers, a field study, and free teaching materials.

While the academy focuses on topics in the AP Human Geography course outline, teachers of any discipline are welcome to attend as we hope to promote geographic literacy and skills in all content areas. Teachers are responsible for transportation to and from Newport News, the cost of one dinner, and are expected to participate in all activities.  Lodging costs and other meals are paid for by the Virginia Geographic Alliance.  Participants who create and share teaching materials will earn 25 rectification points and will be eligible to receive a small stipend for their work.

If you are interested in attending please register at http://bit.ly/UrbanAcademy2019

View materials from previous academies

See flyer for the academy– and feel free to share with others!

The National Humanities Center has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for our project titled Troops to Teachers: Helping Communities and Classrooms Understand the Military Experience.

They are recruiting up to thirty current K-12 teachers from North Carolina and Virginia who are also veterans of one of the four branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. This cohort will attend a five-day institute on June 17-21, 2019 at the Center in order to learn how to use literature to understand the military experience. They will focus on five themes, invite authors and poets and literary scholars to discuss, and then ask each participant to design a project for their schools or communities that explore the military experience. In May 2020, this cohort will return to the Center to share their project work and to prepare it for sharing with other schools and teachers across the two states.

They are currently accepting applications from interested educators until May 1. The information for the program and application process can be found here: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-programs/troops-teachers-helping-classrooms-communities-understand-military-experience/