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From: Gary Dei Rossi [mailto:gdeirossi@sjcoe.net]
CISC HISTORY-SOCIAL SCIENCE SUBCOMMITTEE
MARCH 2009 UPDATE
State History-Social Science Curriculum Framework and Evaluation Criteria Committee: The committee has had two meetings. So far the committee has reviewed the revised chapters on assessment, universal access, instructional support, and some of the course descriptions. Future meetings are: April 2-3, April 30 & May 1st, and June 4-5. Various county history-social science leaders are either on the committee and have been involved with the deliberations.
The History Summit: On April 20-21, the California History Social Science Project will be hosting “Summit III: How Merging Historical content, Instruction and Research Can Improve History Instruction.” Featured speakers are: Daniel Sergeant, UC Berkeley; Tom Torlakson, Assembly Education Member; Rebecca Valbuena, LA Teacher of the Year; Gloria Romero, Chair of the Senate Education Committee; Mary Schleppegrell, School of Education at University of Michigan; and Ross Dunn, History Professor at San Diego State University. For more information please contact Nancy McTygue at 530-752-0572 or http://csmp.ucop.edu/chssp.
US State Department Website: This site has a new feature that they might want share with your schools and students called “Ask the Secretary” where any student can ask her/his own question of Secretary of State Clinton as she makes her journeys.
LegiSchool Project: A very exciting opportunity for high school students and teachers throughout California is the LegiSchool Project's Annual Photo Contest, California Through My Eyes. How do you envision California? What represents California to you? Poverty? Wealth? Technology? Farms? Water? Mountains? Towns? People? Cities? Cars? Landscapes? These are just some of the images that students are invited to photograph for LegiSchool’s annual photo contest. The photo can be a person, place, or anything else – big or small. It must be an original 8 x 10 inch photo and can be in color or black and white. Students also need to include a 150-word or less essay explaining why the photo represents California. The first-place winner will receive $100 and four runners-up will receive $50 each. Entries must be postmarked by Friday, May 1, 2009. Please see the attached announcement for details and share it with your students. Additional fliers and/or entry forms are available at: http://www.csus.edu/legischool.
The LegiSchool Project is a civic education collaboration between California State University, Sacramento and the State Legislature, administered by the Center for California Studies. LegiSchool’s mission is to engage young people in matters of public policy and state government by creating opportunities for students and state leaders to meet and share ideas on issues affecting Californians and by developing free high-quality government-oriented curriculum materials for California educators to enhance and help improve the quality of state government-related curriculum in our schools.
For more information, or if you have any questions, please contact me at thorall@csus.edu or (916) 278-7563.
Megan Thorall, LegiSchool Coordinator, Center for California Studies, (916) 278-7563.
California History-Social Science Network: The National Council for the Social Studies ballots for 2009 have arrived. Michelle Herczog of LACOE, a Past-President of CCSS, is running for NCSS Board of Directors as a Member-At-Large. We need to support our California representation at the national level!
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Civic Education in History-Social Studies Framework Revision
From: crf@crf-usa.org [mailto:crf@crf-usa.org]
On Feb. 5, the California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools presented a white paper on Civic Education Policy at the first meeting of the California Department of Education's History-Social Science Framework Revision Committee Meeting. We wanted you to see a copy of the paper and extend a special thanks to Cricket Kidwell for her authorship. In addition to our presentation, the Hon. Ronald B. Robie, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District and State Senator Wyland each also presented testimony on the importance of including civic education in the framework.
As the CA History-Social Science Framework includes course descriptions for each grade level and other resources for teaching K-12 History-Social Science in our state, we believe this is an important opportunity for the California Civic Mission of Schools Campaign to ensure that civic education and the promising practices are included in a thorough and meaningful way. As the process continues throughout the year, we will keep you informed of our progress and may call upon our coalition members to make public comments at the Revision Committee meetings to keep the committee focused on civic education.
Click here to view the white paper: http://www.cms-ca.org/Civic_Educ_Calif_Policy_Recommendations.pdf
Debbie Genzer
Senior Program Director
Educating for Democracy: California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
Constitutional Rights Foundation
601 S. Kingsley Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
(415) 383-3022 (Ph)
(415) 383-4780 (FAX)
www.crf-usa.org
www.cms-ca.org
On Feb. 5, the California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools presented a white paper on Civic Education Policy at the first meeting of the California Department of Education's History-Social Science Framework Revision Committee Meeting. We wanted you to see a copy of the paper and extend a special thanks to Cricket Kidwell for her authorship. In addition to our presentation, the Hon. Ronald B. Robie, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District and State Senator Wyland each also presented testimony on the importance of including civic education in the framework.
As the CA History-Social Science Framework includes course descriptions for each grade level and other resources for teaching K-12 History-Social Science in our state, we believe this is an important opportunity for the California Civic Mission of Schools Campaign to ensure that civic education and the promising practices are included in a thorough and meaningful way. As the process continues throughout the year, we will keep you informed of our progress and may call upon our coalition members to make public comments at the Revision Committee meetings to keep the committee focused on civic education.
Click here to view the white paper: http://www.cms-ca.org/Civic_Educ_Calif_Policy_Recommendations.pdf
Debbie Genzer
Senior Program Director
Educating for Democracy: California Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
Constitutional Rights Foundation
601 S. Kingsley Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90005
(415) 383-3022 (Ph)
(415) 383-4780 (FAX)
www.crf-usa.org
www.cms-ca.org
Thursday, November 20, 2008
November CISC History-SS Report
From: Gary Dei Rossi [mailto:gdeirossi@sjcoe.net]
Welcome to the CISC History-social science report. The attached items include:
*an article by Nat Hentoff concerning the youth vote that appeared in the Sacramento Bee on Oct. 31
*"Not by Votes Alone", an article by Ted McConnell (one of the keynote speakers at last year’s Asilomar Conference) on the importance of civic education
*the CISC history-social science minutes from the Nov. 6th meeting, including…
-History-Social Science Framework Revision Committee meetings
-Supplemental instructional materials for Native Americans
-CDE History-SS newsletter
-CCSS awards applications for excellence in History-SS education
-2009 CCSS conference
-CCSS pre-conference event on Closing the Achievement Gap
-Upcoming 3R’s program events
-Civic education resources
-National service learning standards
-Media and Democracy project
-Five Freedoms Project (a Leadership & Youth Media project)
*the latest CA 3Rs Bulletin on Student Religious Expression in School Assignments
*the CA 3Rs calendar for this year.
Gary F. Dei Rossi
Co-Chair CISC History Social Science Committee
Welcome to the CISC History-social science report. The attached items include:
*an article by Nat Hentoff concerning the youth vote that appeared in the Sacramento Bee on Oct. 31
*"Not by Votes Alone", an article by Ted McConnell (one of the keynote speakers at last year’s Asilomar Conference) on the importance of civic education
*the CISC history-social science minutes from the Nov. 6th meeting, including…
-History-Social Science Framework Revision Committee meetings
-Supplemental instructional materials for Native Americans
-CDE History-SS newsletter
-CCSS awards applications for excellence in History-SS education
-2009 CCSS conference
-CCSS pre-conference event on Closing the Achievement Gap
-Upcoming 3R’s program events
-Civic education resources
-National service learning standards
-Media and Democracy project
-Five Freedoms Project (a Leadership & Youth Media project)
*the latest CA 3Rs Bulletin on Student Religious Expression in School Assignments
*the CA 3Rs calendar for this year.
Gary F. Dei Rossi
Co-Chair CISC History Social Science Committee
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