Forming a More Peaceful Union


Council for State Social Studies Specialists Conference

November 13 – 15, 2001

Updated: October 10, 2001

Tuesday

11/13/01

Executive Board Meeting                                

Omni-Shoreham

3:00 – 5:00

Opening Dinner

off-site, meet in lobby

Sponsored by Presidential Classrooms

6:30 – 10:00

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

11/14/01

Registration for CS4 

7:30 – 8:00

Breakfast

Harding Room at Marriott-Wardham

Sponsored by Newsweek

Speaker, Media and the National Tragedy

Questions and Answers            

8:00 – 8:45

 

 

 

8:45 – 9:30

Break

9:30 – 9:45

Business Session I: Michael Odom

9:45 – 10:00

Session I: Talking Back to the Standards

Moderated by Eugene Earson

10:00 – 11:30

What’s new with NCSS?

Susan Griffin & Al Frascella

11:30 – 12:00

Lunch 

12:00 – 1:00

Session II: A National Call for Democracy/

Patriotism, a panel discussion, moderator

Marcie Taylor-Thoma and Michael Fischer

1:00 – 2:30

Break 

2:30 – 2:45

Session III: Chattaugua

2:45 – 4:00

Business Session II: Michael Odom

4:00 – 4:30

Reflections

4:30 – 4:45

Dinner

off-site, meet in lobby

Sponsored by the National Council on Economic Education

6:00

 

 

 

Thursday

11/15/01

 

 

All Meetings In the Roosevelt Room

Breakfast

Eisenhower Room

Sponsored by Cram

8:00 – 8:45

 

Business Section III: Michael Odom

8:45 – 9:15

Break

9:15 – 9:45

Session IV: Social Studies and Literacy

Sponsored by Harcourt School Publishers.

Thomas McGowan

9:45 – 10:45

Session V: What Does Recent Research Tell Us About Teaching   and Learning in K-8 Social Studies

Laurel Singleton, SSEC

Sharyl Davis, Houghton Mifflin

10:45 – 12:00

Lunch 

Eisenhower Rood
Sponsored by Teachers' Curriculum Institute, "History Alive"

12:00 – 1:00

Session VI: Religious Liberty – Its Defense in Times of Crisis

Barry Lynn, Executive Director, AUSCS

1:00 – 2:00

What’s New for CS4 in 2002?

2:00 – 2:15

Break

2:15 – 2:30

Session VII: Educating Citizens in  a Multicultural World, Jean Dresden Research Award

Speaker, James A. Banks,

2:30 – 3:15

Questions, Judy Butler

3:15 – 3:30

Break

2:45 – 3:00

CSSAP: A New Approach

John LeFeber & others

3:00 – 4:15

Session VIII: What’s new for CS4

4:15 – 4:30

Final Wrap-Up/Evaluation

4:30 – 5:00

Dinner

CS4 Closing Event

Wilson, Room B

6:15 – 8:15

Coffee/ Dessert Bar/ Gift Exchange

8:30 – 10:00

Friday

11/16/01

Executive Board Meeting Breakfast

Park Towers, Room 8229

8:00 – 10:00