ESC Region 11 Social Studies Update
March 2020
Preparing Students for a Global Community
K-12 Social Studies Curriculum Coach
Hello March! Time for crazy spring weather (which can make for some crazy kids!), track meets, and testing. But, best of all, time for SPRING BREAK!!! I hope you all have a restful, fun-filled break that leaves you recharged and ready for the last lap of the school year. I hope you can take a moment and reflect on how much your students have blossomed this year and recognize the role you had in that. It's an amazing job that allows us to actually see the impact. Thanks for being the ROCK STARS that you are!!
Sincerely,
Crystal Klose
Email: cklose@esc11.net
Location: 1451 South Cherry Lane, White Settlement, TX, USA
Phone: 817-740-7578
Facebook: facebook.com/esc11socialstudies
Twitter: @crystal_klose
Literacy Across Content
March Forward, Girl by Melba Pattillo Beals
What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers
What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky
What does that word really mean? Ask children from around the world, and this is what they say....
Yet another reason social studies and literacy are inseparable: "We must not only learn to read the word, but also learn to read the world." Paulo Freire
Geography & World Culture — March 17th
What shapes culture and how does that affect our world? The answers may surprise you! Join us to discuss how geography affects culture around the world. We will talk about ways to use geography to create students who have a better understanding and appreciation of other cultures as well as an understanding of where these cultures exist on the map.
Tying It All Together— March 24th
Exploring the Past, Imagining the Future with Frisco Heritage Museum (ALTERNATE LOCATION) --March 31st
Join ESC Regions 10 and 11 as we partner with the Frisco Heritage Museum to examine the role North Texas continues to play in the modernization of the state. We will explore the turn-of-the-century buildings on-site at the museum (one-room schoolhouse, train depot, church, etc.) and connect this time period to current day. Our focus will be on the museum and how it showcases the manner in which Texas utilized cotton, cattle, and railroads to close the state's frontier as well as the role the railroad played in modernizing America.
ESC Region 11 Social Studies Upcoming PD
3/19 Using Google in History (3 hours)
3/19 Using Google in Geography (3 hours)
4/20 Lessons That Save Lives DRSR
4/28 Critical Thinking & History
4/30 Forgotten People in History (in Grand Prairie ISD)
6/8 Twitter Toolkit (3 hours)
6/8 The DBQ Project
6/9 Perspective & Point of View
6/10 Talking across the Aisle
6/15 DRSR Mock Trials: A Mock Trial Roadmap for Your Classroom
6/16 Civil War Era Documents & Texas History: Investigation Workshop at the Pearce Museum
6/23 History in the Making! Region 10 & 11 Joint Metroplex Social Studies Conference (in Frisco ISD)
6/24 Elementary SS Streamlining Integration with new ELAR TEKS (3 hours)
6/24 When to Ditch Devices (3 hours)
6/25 Authentic Review in History
7/7-7/8 LRE: Teaching the Tough TEKS in 8th Grade (in Aledo ISD)
7/7-7/8 LRE: Teaching the Tough TEKS in 11th Grade: Making Connections Over Time (in Aledo ISD)
7/28 Connections in History
7/29 When to Ditch Devices (3 hours)
Register at https://registration.esc11.net/
Students see no difference between their "digital" world and their "real" world. Good citizenship applies in all their worlds.
Spotlight on Strategies!
- Have students create their own "fake news" using https://www.emaze.com/?emazehome=1 You can see what they really know based on what they create in here!
- Reflect on a unit by having students select a quote from someone in that unit that epitomizes that era. Make sure they are ready to defend their choice!
- Review a unit with Mirror, Microscope & Binoculars! What is a connection that students have with something you've studied (Mirror), what's something they felt had the biggest impact and why (Microscope), and what's a connection something had to what happened later in history (Binoculars)?
- First Chapter Friday! Read the first chapter of a book to your students each Friday, and let them put their name in a jar to indicate if they are interested in checking it out to read the rest. Then draw a name at the end of the day. Watch reading interest skyrocket!
- Clone yourself! If you teach multiple class periods and will be reading aloud a poem or doing a quick mini lesson--record yourself and share with each class period so each group gets all your energy and you aren't exhausted at the end of the day! #WorkSmarterNotHarder