Session 1 and 2 Combined: 9:00-11:40

Session 1: 9:00-10:15

April 5, 2014 I’d Like the Cold War, With a Side of Current Issues: A Different Approach to Regents Review Classes Maggie Kelly, Teacher, and Alden Fici, Teacher, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades 9-12 Wondering how to present content to students who have previously taken your class? Have a Review class where all the students have taken the class and exam several times already? Looking for ways to differentiate or engage your students? I’d Like the Cold War, with a side of Current Issues: A Different Approach to Regents Review Classes will introduce you to the idea of offering students choice on what, how and when they review material. Social Studies Material at Your Fingertips Nancy Westendorf, Librarian, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades 3-12 Looking for thousands of free magazine, newspaper, and encyclopedia articles to use with your students? Come to this workshop! Learn how to access thousands of free magazine, newspaper and encyclopedia articles from ReadWorks, Gale Databases, Gannett Newstand, Grolier Encyclopedias, New York State Historic Newspapers and more. The New York State Library, public, and school library systems offer these resources for your use -- and they are instantly available without leaving your keyboard. A great source for social studies reading sources and question sets developed to match CCSS requirements will also be introduced. Laptops welcomed, but not required. Tainos: The Indigenous People of the Greater Antilles Miriam Cruz-Vazquez, Director of Bilingual Education and Jose Mora, Assistant Principal, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades PK-8 Take a look into the past to understand how a community lived and survived in Puerto Rico. What do we as a culture continue in our own lives today that we have adapted from our past? What resources were used by the Taino people? What forms of government did they have that we still can see in our modern day governments? What brought these citizens together as a viable community? Please come to learn about the food, music, government, and daily living of the Taino people. Scaffolding Social Studies Text for All Students Mariella Diaz, Bilingual Lead Teacher, and Tracy Cretelle, ELL Coach, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades PK-2 This session will strengthen teachers’ ability to identify and implement scaffolds to support student’s access to Social Studies texts and tasks. Linking Literacy, Primary Source Documents, and Assessment in Social Studies Jeremiah Bergan, Special Education Teacher, and Terry Lemen, ELA Teacher, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades K-12 Linking Literacy, Primary Source Documents, and Assessment in Social Studies will help support teachers implementation of Common Core Learning Standards in the Social Studies content area. Teachers will discuss changing standards into learning targets, picking the right primary or secondary source documents to support the learning target, annotating primary source documents to increase students’ comprehension and content knowledge, using expository writing graphic organizer to help support student writing, and evaluating student writing to help improve writing skills and content knowledge. So, What is a Citizen? Kristine Frederick, English Teacher, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades K-12 Our Stories are an invaluable resource for teaching students. How we perceive citizenry is at the heart of this presentation. Who are we will be the central driving force for this session. What can we learn from each other?

Session 2 : 10:25-11:40

Animating History Liza Steffen, Technology Resource Teacher, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades PK-5 Learn how to use a free app for your iPad that students will enjoy applying to deepen their understanding of any topic you choose. This app can be used within any time frame for any topic and will also allow students to record their own script. TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS SESSION, YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN IPAD WITH YOU. Participants who use their district iPads will receive a license for the full version of the Puppet Pals app being used during the session. Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core Amy Lewis, Special Education Teacher, Mentor, and Peer Reviewer, JoEllen Manetta, Social Studies Teacher, and Alyson Ulrich, Special Education Teacher, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades 6-12 Using the book 20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core: Increasing Rigor in Middle and High School Classrooms the presenters engaged in an action research project to explore the question “What close reading strategies are most effective at engaging students in mastering rigorous social studies texts?” The presenters will share their experiences with the common core “shifts” in their classrooms. Participants will be able to ask questions and will leave with strategies and resources to use in their classrooms right away. Close Reading – Promoting Literacy Across the Curriculum Melissa McLean, Social Studies Teacher, and Michael Carey, Special Education Teacher, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades K-12 How can we help our students build their literacy skills so they may become more independent and successful learners in our classes? The purpose of this session is to provide the opportunity to collaborate around Common Core aligned literacy strategies in the core content areas, including Social Studies. We will specifically focus on infusing literacy through the use of close reading strategies and graphic organizers/note-catchers. Instructional materials and ideas will be shared, including “Thinking Notes” to be used as a marking up the text activity during close reading protocol. Creating a Non-Violent Classroom in a Violent World Kit Miller, Director, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence Intended Audience: Grades K-12 Kit Miller, from Rochester's Gandhi Institute, will discuss how to create safe spaces for communication using the tools of non-violence. George Lakey said that “non-violence can be a way to conduct conflict, not simply to resolve or prevent it.” This interactive presentation will include small group discussion, games, and other strategies to incorporate non-violence communication into our work with students.

Complimentary Lunch (on-site) 11:50-12:20 Keynote Address 12:30-1:30 Dr. Adam Laats, Associate Professor, SUNY Binghamton

Adam Laats taught middle- and high school social studies for ten years in Milwaukee before earning his PhD in TwentiethCentury United States History at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. He is now Associate Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University (SUNY). In Binghamton, Adam works with pre-service history teachers, teaching classes in American history and the history of American education. Adam’s early research investigated the educational activism of Protestant fundamentalists in the 1920s. Why did these conservative religious activists want to ban evolution from public schools? How much success did they have? How did their campaigns influence both religion and education? His more recent work looks more broadly at the meanings of “conservatism” and cultural conflict over schooling and education in the twentieth century. His most recent book, The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education, will come out in Fall, 2014 with Harvard University Press. Adam has also published essays about conservatism, creationism, and education in Education Week, Chronicle of Higher Education, the Washington Post, and the History News Network. He blogs about conservatism, culture, history, and education at I Love You but You’re Going to Hell.

Session 3: 1:45-3:00

The State of SECONDARY Social Studies Casey Jakubowski, Executive Director of Social Studies, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades 7-12 Participate in this session to learn more about the current state of social studies within our district, our state, and our country. Participants will learn more about the New York State Common Core Social Studies Framework for K-12 and discuss implications for our work as a Department. *Please note that there are two concurrent offerings of these sessions, differentiated by grade level. The State of ELEMENTARY Social Studies Steve LaMorte, Director of Social Studies, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades K-6 Participate in this session to learn more about the current state of social studies within our district, our state, and our country. Participants will learn more about the New York State Common Core Social Studies Framework for K-12 and discuss implications for our work as a Department. *Please note that there are two concurrent offerings of these sessions, differentiated by grade level. Art at the CORE: From the Memorial Art Gallery to the Classroom Sydney Greaves and Carol Yost, Assistant Curators of Education, Memorial Art Gallery Intended Audience: Grades K-12 Has it been a while since you brought your students to the Memorial Art Gallery? Do you worry that because you "know nothing about art," that MAG's not right for you and your classroom? Are you questioning MAG's ability to help you meet CORE requirements? HAVE WE GOT NEWS FOR YOU! Take a quick walk across the street to the MAG and spend the workshop session time in the collection. See our newly published iBook, Ancient Egypt, try out the new MAGart app, and learn about its specially-designed supporting SMART Board lesson plans. See the Renaissance Remix exhibit, great for Global History. Examine Seeing America Through Artist's Eyes with its collection of ready-to-go activities. Learn how bringing art into the classroom, at any age, in any curriculum area, can enhance students' critical thinking, writing, vocabulary, creative, and analytical skills. Meet Sydney Greaves and Carol Yost, Assistant Curators of Education, at SOTA's main Prince Street entrance to walk over to the MAG. “My Uncle’s Not a Murderer:” Teaching, Textbooks, and the Vietnam War Adam Laats, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education and Department of History, SUNY Binghamton Intended Audience: Grades 7-12 Teaching new generations of citizens must mean teaching them about controversial issues. One of the most stubbornly controversial issues in modern American history is the nature and meaning of the Vietnam War. How can we teach the Vietnam War without raising hackles? Was the My Lai massacre “genocide?” Was it part and parcel of the American war effort or merely an unfortunate but understandable aberration? In either case, how do we teach about it? In this session, participants will share their experiences in teaching about the war. We will examine samples from leading history textbooks. What do those books say about My Lai? How do they seem to want to teach it? How does that mesh with our classroom experiences as teachers? The Feedback They Need: Strengthening Student Writing in the Social Studies James Lukens, ELA Instructional Coach, Rochester City School District Intended Audience: Grades 6-12 One of our greatest challenges in the social studies is to help students strengthen their writing skills, and research suggests that the kind of feedback we provide may be the most important factor in helping a student improve. Writing is a major obstacle for many students in tackling state Regents history exams that are necessary for graduation, but well-planned, high-quality feedback can have an enormous impact. Active citizenship requires critical thinking, and civic participation requires us to articulate our ideas. Participants will leave this workshop with some valuable strategies and tools to help students improve their ability to do so.