Welcome Teachers!

Today’s professional learning day will begin at 8:30 am in the Stockbridge

High School commons area. We will officially kick off the day at 8:30 am

with a welcome and the chance to share the 2015-2016 vision for social

studies in Henry County schools. We also look forward to sharing more

about ways we may support you throughout the year and provide an over-

view of this year’s professional learning plan.

You will have the opportunity to attend two sessions in the morning and two sessions in the afternoon.

Lunch will be from 11:45 –1:00. If you need directions or lunch suggestions, please see Heather MacKenzie

or a support team member, and they will be happy to help. Most importantly, please sign-in at each session

you attend as sign-in sheets will be collected within the first 10 minutes of each session. Below you

will find an overview of the session/workshop offerings (Session descriptions and locations are located in

the following pages).

Thank you again for taking the time to increase your content and pedagogical knowledge and have a great

day!

Heather Mackenzie, Social Studies Coordinator

hmackenzie@henry.k12.ga.us

For Social Studies

Secondary Teachers ~ July 29, 2015 ~ Stockbridge High School

Social Studies 8:30—9:15 am Welcome & Keynote

9:20—10:30 am Session 1

10:35—11:45 am Session 2

Lunch

11:45—1:00 pm

1:05—2:15 pm Session 3

2:20—3:40 pm Session 4

Department of Learning & Leadership

In the 2015-2016 school year the Social Studies Department is excited to provide fo-

cused, systematic professional development to teachers that will highlight the tenets of per-

sonalized learning while addressing the vision of advancing social studies in Henry County

Schools. In addition, the teachers on special assignment and I are available to offer targeted

professional learning designed to meet the needs of your schools and staff.

Our aim is to create a learning environment where educators can collaboratively and

continuously enhance their knowledge and implementation of social studies skills. We are ex-

cited that in the 2015-2016 school year our vision of for all students to:

As we work toward meeting our vision, we look forward to offering teachers the opportunity

to participate in a series of thematic sessions, whereby attending each session within a series,

teachers will have the opportunity to increase content knowledge or skill proficiency in a giv-

en area. Teachers completing all four parts will receive certificates for TKES artifact docu-

mentation. On the next page you may see an overview an within the program, look for ses-

sions that are noted “series” in order to participate.

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

9:20—10:30 am SESSION 1

EverFi in Your Middle School Classroom! EverFi provides educators with engaging, online learning resources in topics such as civic engagement, African-American history, entrepreneurship, and financial litera-cy. Each course is a great supplement throughout the middle school curriculum and free of charge to schools. Last year, over 50,000 students went through an EverFi course in Georgia. Everyone who attends our presentation will be given login creden-tials, curriculum outlines, access to lesson plans and ongoing technical and curriculum support at no cost.

Laura

Mayfield &

Brittany Ferguson Ever-Fi

Grades 6 - 8

324

Project CRISS (Creating Independence through Student-Owned Strategies) A collection of practical tools for your teaching and learning toolbox. Partici-pants will learn high-impact strategies and experience modeled instructional practices that are necessary to facilitate self-directed learning. Activities are adapted to model what implementation looks like in the classroom.

Nina Kendall ELHS

Grades 6 - 12

207

Ready-Made Resources for the Middle Grades Come check out the new curriculum maps/pacing guides for grades 6-8!!!!! This informative session will walk middle grades' teachers through these new drafts and share ways to use them for easy and effective planning. Teachers will also learn how to access ready-to-use lesson plans for grades 6 and 7 that are already uploaded on to POINT!

Monique Watkins ELMS

Grades

6 - 7

211

History’s Canvas—Incorporating Art in US History Art can be an incredibly powerful tool for getting students excited about learn-ing. In this session, you will explore creative and seamless ways you can in-corporate art into your classroom. You’ll not only receive an overview of ma-jor art movements, works, and artists, you’ll also discover ways to use this information to enhance your current lessons and/or inspire the creation of new ones through suggested activities, strategies, and resources for how to use art in your class.

Jeff Burns OHS

US History

213

Flipped Classroom—How Can It Work for You? This session will offer a brief overview of what a flipped classroom is like and the research supporting its use. Teachers will be given some examples to pre-view. ***Please bring laptops or device to access some of the available re-sources and work to set up a brief lesson to test with your students.

Michelle Platson

SMS

Grades 6 - 12

214

Quizzing with Quia! In this session, you will learn about the website Quia (key-ah).com and how Quia can help improve your students’ performance on the Georgia Milestones tests, SLOs, and AP tests. This website provides a wide variety of tools that we will go into detail about in this session, including an online bank of questions, tests, and activities that you and your students can access and use anywhere, anytime, and on any device. With Quia, you can free yourself from grading scantrons and taking home stacks of papers to grade. Most importantly, unlike other commonly used testing programs, you own and completely control your Quia test bank. **Please bring laptops or device to access Quia.

Chris Gardner

& Emily

Gardner OHS

Grades 6 - 12

326

Primarily Speaking: Using Existing Resources to Increase Content Think that primary sources aren’t accessible for all students? Think again! Please join TCM to learn ways to integrate the research and standards-based primary source kits and materials into your instruction easily and efficiently. Bonus: Training will be on kits that you already have at your schools!

Teacher Created Materials

Rep

Grades 6 - 12

216

Balanced Differentiation Attend this session to learn a practical way to use multiple intelligence survey data to help differentiate for students' learning styles. In addition, you’ll re-ceive ideas for creating a multiple intelligence-based choice board that will foster more student-centered learning, writing a content-based unit contract using multiple intelligence survey data, and flipping your classroom effectively.

Mike Swartz LGE

Grades 6 - 12

218

Transition to Next Session

11:30—1:00 pm LUNCH

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

10:35—11:45 am SESSION 2

EverFi in Your High School Classroom! Responsible financial decision making; engaging in civic discourse; learning about the African-Americans who wrote our history; these extra-academic skills have been shown to be vital in determining a student's success in preparing for college and a career, and are central to Henry County High Schools' areas of focus. Participants will learn how to put EverFi's no cost, dynamic software courses to work in their schools to address these critical areas, and to implement them within existing curricula, thus taking a holistic, integrated instructional approach.

Laura

Mayfield &

Brittany Ferguson Ever-Fi

Grades 9 - 12

324

Project CRISS (Creating Independence through Student-Owned Strategies) A collection of practical tools for your teaching and learning toolbox. Partici-pants will learn high-impact strategies and experience modeled instructional practices that are necessary to facilitate self-directed learning. Activities are adapted to model what implementation looks like in the classroom.

Nina Kendall ELHS

Grades 6 - 12

207

No Headaches Here! Assessing for Content in Social Studies We all know that writing has its place in the history classroom, so why is it such a struggle to implement and even more of a headache to score? At-tend this session to learn ways to work smarter, not harder when integrating writing in the history classroom. In this session we will work to assess the content of a history prompt while learning strategies to make grading easier using rubrics and pre-determined codes. Teachers will leave with strategies that help students understand content, think historically, and prepare for cul-minating writing assignments.

Jason Wayne LGHS

US History Teachers

209

History’s Canvas—Incorporating Art in World History Art can be an incredibly powerful tool for getting students excited about learning. In this session, you will explore creative and seamless ways you can incorporate art into your classroom. You’ll not only receive an overview of major art movements, works, and artists, you’ll also discover ways to use this information to enhance your current lessons and/or inspire the creation of new ones through suggested activities, strategies, and resources for how to use art in your class.

Jeff Burns OHS

World History

Teachers

213

Shall We Play a Game? Putting Gamification in the Classroom into Practice! This seminar is the first in a series about how board games can be used to facilitate learning in the classroom. We will explore a specific game and how you can introduce it to students and have students play it in one or two periods. Also, rubrics will be provided to participants to show how student assessment can be achieved.

Margaret Duncan WHS

Grades 6-12

Media Center

Balanced Differentiation Attend this session to learn a practical way to use multiple intelligence sur-vey data to help differentiate for students' learning styles. In addition, you’ll receive ideas for creating a multiple intelligence-based choice board that will foster more student-centered learning, writing a content-based unit contract using multiple intelligence survey data, and flipping your classroom effective-ly.

Mike

Swartz LGE

Grades 6 - 12

218

Primarily Speaking: Using Existing Resources to Increase Content Think that primary sources aren’t accessible for all students? Think again! Please join TCM to learn ways to integrate the research and standards-based primary source kits and materials into your instruction easily and effi-ciently. Bonus: Training will be on kits that you already have at your schools!

Teacher Created Materials

Rep

Grades 6 - 12

216

Competencies 101 What’s all the buzz about competency-based education? Henry County’s competency-based graduation program, set to launch in a few select schools in the fall, has the potential to revolutionize education by personaliz-ing student learning. If you’re interested in learning more about how this will affect your classroom in the future, don’t miss out on this session to receive an overview of competency-based education and review a draft of the Social Studies competencies for our county.

Heather MacKenzie

SS Coordinator

& Tony Disario

& Regina Holland

District TOSAs

Grades 6 - 12

219

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

1:05—2:15 pm SESSION 3

Increasing the Rigor on Classroom Assessments In this interactive session teachers will explore the applications of depth of knowledge, standards based questions, and rubrics as they relate to class-room assessment practices. Teachers will have an opportunity to compare and contrast their classroom practices with practices used to create Georgia Milestones test items.

Penny

Damianeas District

Assessment Specialist

Grades 6 - 12

217

Implementing National History Day Step 1 of a series in which we will work together to plan and implement Na-tional History Day in the classroom. Teachers will get a chance to create their project timelines, see models of all parts of the project process, and share ideas supporting the research and writing process. This will be a hands on session with evaluation of samples from participant’s classrooms.

Nina Kendall ELHS

Grades 6 - 12

207

Ready-Made Resources for the Middle Grades Come check out the new curriculum maps/pacing guides for grades 6-8!!!!! This informative session will walk middle grades' teachers through these new drafts and share ways to use them for easy and effective planning. Teachers will also learn how to access ready-to-use lesson plans for grades 6 and 7 that are already uploaded on to POINT!

Monique Watkins ELMS

Grades 6 - 8

211

Traveling Trunks Made Easy The use of traveling trunks is a way to engage students in exploring a theme through artifacts, replicas, and exhibitions. Teachers will be introduced to the concept of traveling trunks and how to create their own using free and/or inexpensive materials. Teachers who attend will be given resource information.

Melanie Hendrix

HMS

Grades 6 - 12

215

Shall We Play a Game? Putting Gamification in the Classroom into Practice! This seminar is the first in a series about how board games can be used to facilitate learning in the classroom. We will explore a specific game and how you can introduce it to students and have students play it in one or two periods. Also, rubrics will be provided to participants to show how student assessment can be achieved.

Margaret Duncan WHS

Grades 6 - 12

Media Center

Geography- It's so much more than a map! Make Geography Relevant! Explore ideas, projects and techniques that will make your Geography course relevant, engaging and a major building block for all other Social Studies courses in the future. Teachers will gain insight on Geography lessons and how to that emphasize historical relevance, cur-rent event issues and Human Environment Interactions that shape our every-day lives and the world we live in!

Amanda Okrutney

WHS &

Valerie Stansell UGHS

Grades 6 - 12

220

Primarily Speaking: Using Existing Resources to Increase Content Think that primary sources aren’t accessible for all students? Think again! Please join TCM to learn ways to integrate the research and standards-based primary source kits and materials into your instruction easily and effi-ciently. Bonus: Training will be on kits that you already have at your schools!

Teacher Created Materials

Rep

Grades 6 - 12

216

Competencies 101 What’s all the buzz about competency-based education? Henry County’s competency-based graduation program, set to launch in a few select schools in the fall, has the potential to revolutionize education by personaliz-ing student learning. If you’re interested in learning more about how this will affect your classroom in the future, don’t miss out on this session to receive an overview of competency-based education and review a draft of the Social Studies competencies for our county.

Heather MacKenzie

SS Coordinator

Tony Disario &

Regina Holland

District TOSAs

Grades 6 - 12

219

Transition to Next Session

Title/Description Presenter Audience Room

2:20—3:40 pm SESSION 4

Increasing the Rigor on Classroom Assessments In this interactive session, teachers will explore the applications of depth of knowledge, standards based questions, and rubrics as they relate to class-room assessment practices. Teachers will have an opportunity to compare and contrast their classroom practices with practices used to create Georgia Milestones test items.

Penny

Damianeas District

Assessment Specialist

Grades 6 - 12

217

Implementing National History Day Step 1 of a series in which we will work together to plan and implement Na-tional History Day in the classroom. Teachers will get a chance to create their project timelines, see models of all parts of the project process, and share ideas supporting the research and writing process. This will be a hands on session with evaluation of samples from participant’s classrooms.

Nina Kendall ELHS

Grades 6-12

207

No Headaches Here! Assessing for Content in Social Studies We all know that writing has its place in the history classroom, so why is it such a struggle to implement and even more of a headache to score? At-tend this session to learn ways to work smarter, not harder when integrating writing in the history classroom. In this session we will work to assess the content of a history prompt while learning strategies to make grading easier using rubrics and pre-determined codes. Teachers will leave with strategies that help students understand content, think historically, and prepare for cul-minating writing assignments.

Jason Wayne LGHS

US History Teachers

209

Traveling Trunks Made Easy The use of traveling trunks is a way to engage students in exploring a theme through artifacts, replicas, and exhibitions. Teachers will be introduced to the concept of traveling trunks and how to create their own using free and/or inexpensive materials. Teachers who attend will be given resource information.

Melanie Hendrix

HMS

Grades 6 - 12

215

Flipped Classroom—How Can It Work for You? This session will offer a brief overview of what a flipped classroom is like and the research supporting its use. Teachers will be given some examples to preview. ***Please bring laptops or device to access some of the available resources and work to set up a brief lesson to test with your students.

Michelle Platson

SMS

Grades 6 - 12

214

Quizzing with Quia! In this session, you will learn about the website Quia (key-ah).com and how Quia can help improve your students’ performance on the Georgia Milestones tests, SLOs, and AP tests. This website provides a wide variety of tools that we will go into detail about in this session, including an online bank of questions, tests, and activities that you and your students can access and use anywhere, anytime, and on any device. With Quia, you can free yourself from grading scantrons and taking home stacks of papers to grade. Most importantly, unlike other commonly used testing programs, you own and completely control your Quia test bank. **Please bring laptops or device to access Quia.

Chris

Gardner &

Emily Gardner

OHS

Grades 6 -12

326

Primarily Speaking: Using Existing Resources to Increase Content Think that primary sources aren’t accessible for all students? Think again! Please join TCM to learn ways to integrate the research and standards-based primary source kits and materials into your instruction easily and effi-ciently. Bonus: Training will be on kits that you already have at your schools!

Teacher-Created Materials

Rep

Grades 6 - 12

216

Geography- It's so much more than a map! Make Geography Relevant! Explore ideas, projects and techniques that will make your Geography course relevant, engaging and a major building block for all other Social Studies courses in the future. Teachers will gain insight on Geography lessons and how to that emphasize historical relevance, cur-rent event issues and Human Environment Interactions that shape our every-day lives and the world we live in!

Amanda Okrutney

WHS &

Valerie Stansell UGHS

Grades 6 -12

220

Use Twitter to participate in weekly #gaed, #histocrats, or #sschat chats with your peers to expand your professional learning network!

@SocialSt_HCS

#sshcs

#ensuringsuccess

Groups for all levels for Social Studies have been created for you to share resources, best practices, and have the opportunity to widen your community of learners! Subgroups can be found within each

group. Elementary SS - qcfigm

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@HCS_SS_WL

Check out our Social Studies webpage at:

http://schoolwires.henry.k12.ga.us/Page/506.

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GCEE: 6th & 7th Grade Economics - October 2, 2015

County PL Day - October 12, 2015

GCSS Annual Conference - October 22 - 23, 2015

County PL Day - November 2, 2015

Echoes and Reflection Workshop - November 2, 2015

GCEE: Social Media (High School) - November 9, 2015