Message from Clay Dube

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California Council for the Social Studies
49th Annual Conference
http://www.ccss.org/index.htm

K-12 Social Studies: Laying the Foundation for a 21st Century Workforce

March 5-7, 2010
Pasadena Convention Center
Pasadena, CA

Featured Keynote Speaker: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
On the Shoulders of Giants: Empowering Students to Learn, Achieve, and Serve

Experience how the lessons learned from the struggles and victories of the Harlem Renaissance gave Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the confidence, will, and inspiration to become a legendary basketball player and recognized humanitarian dedicated to achieving social justice around the world. Explore approaches to help all students embrace the stories of the past as prologue for the future. Together we can help young people adopt a personal commitment to themselves and future generations to become informed, responsible, engaged citizens dedicated to creating a better world for all.

This year's theme, K-12 Social Studies: Laying the Foundation for a 21st Century Workforce is purposefully selected to provide participants with the content, skills, and resources to prepare students to become responsible citizens and competent workers in a highly technical, global society.

Conference strands include:
• Working Collaboratively: Describes how Professional Learning Communities and/or other collaborative networks are used in schools to share best practices in History-Social Science.
• Technology: Describes how technology is utilized to improve academic achievement and meet the goals of History-Social Science education.
• Access and Equity: Describes how content, process, and product can become accessible to all students to close achievement gaps and reduce high school dropout rates.
• Response to Intervention: Describes how educators can adapt History-Social Science instructional practices to meet the learning needs of students with special needs.
• Civic Literacy: Describes how students can acquire the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to become effective citizens before and after high school graduation.
• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking: Describes how students can acquire these workforce skills through engaging, high level, rigorous History-Social Science content and instruction.