The Five College Center for East Asian Studies and the Teachers Center for Global Studies invite you to:

Reading the Landscapes of East Asia: An Exploration of the Geography of Japan and Korea as Viewed Through Literature

Goal: The goal of the series is to provide teachers with content and strategies for combining literature and geography to teach about East Asia.  read more »

The Southeastern Mass. Council for the Social Studies invites you to their winter dinner meeting on Dec. 3, 2009. Dr. Vernon Domingo will present a program for teachers at all levels. Today, with the pressure of MCAS and teaching to the curriculum, geography is often left out of social studies classrooms. A knowledge of geography makes the lessons relevant to the world we live in today. Dr. Domingo will present ways to incorporate geography into the classroom.  read more »

America in Iraq: An Archaeological Perspective Yale Babylonian Collection Centennial Celebration November 14-15, 2009

Location: Yale University, New Haven Contact Hours: 15 Fee: $95 [includes one lunch] Cutoff Date: November 9, 2009  read more »

Do you have an innovative solution to protect the environment? Planet Connect can help make it happen! We’re looking for creative ideas and actions to fix an environmental problem in your school or local community. Planet Connect will support your efforts with $1,000 and provide you with a local environmental internship. Make a difference! Apply for a grant today! The application deadline is October 30, 2009. http://www.planet-connect.org/planet-connect-grants  read more »

The Center for Civic Education is offering a two-day workshop, WE THE PEOPLE, in late October at the Cape Codder Resort in Hyannis.

It features lesson demonstrations and participant involvement in simulated hearings, as well as a presentation from a constitutional scholar.

Participants will receive the following: • Free classroom set of textbooks • Teacher’s guide • Lesson plans • Constitutional scholarship • Dinner, continental breakfast, and box lunch • Lodging on Friday evening  read more »

The Board of Directors of NEHTA has decided to put off the conference on “Civil Wars” until the fall of 2010. This decision was not made lightly, but was agreed upon by the Board and the Conference Committee as a way to ensure wide participation and a top-flight historical conference. Given the difficult economic times, we are hearing that a number of schools are struggling with budgets and requests for out-of-school conferences. We are convinced of the importance of offerings such as our fall conference, but also know that attendance would be impacted by budgets.  read more »

Contact Us Chinese American Cultural Bridge Center (CACBC) 2809 Embers Lane Arlington heights, Illinois 60005 www.cacbc.org  read more »

NCSS is a partner in the National Gallery of Writing, an online exhibition of writing hosted by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). You can find our gallery at: http://galleryofwriting.org/galleries/nationalcouncilforthesocialstudiesgallery.  read more »

Thanks to support from the MA Council of Social Studies and other education organizations around the country, the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) program was able to recruit a fine group of US teachers for the 2009 professional exchange. We have selected 40 outstanding teachers from around the US to receive this year’s travel grant, funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Exchange (ECA) of the US Department of State.  read more »

Wondering what to do for Constitution Day? Constitutional Rights Foundation and Remix America invite you and your students to be a part of the national celebration of the U.S. Constitution. Whether you have a simple lesson or a week-long unit, your students can create a video presentation using Remix technology to document and share their ideas and learnings about the Constitution and Bill of Rights. You can have students participate individually, in small groups, or as a whole class. To participate in the Constitution Day Challenge:  read more »