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Fall 2010 Conference

Illuminating the Future

The next ICSS conference will be held at Lisle Hilton, Lisle Illinois, on October 15, 2010 from 8-4.

Click here for a Session Proposal form.

Click here for the Registration form.

Click here for the Vendor/Exhibitor form.

The theme is: Illuminating the Future.

Dr. Gus Hatzidimitriou, Guest Speaker

Dr. Hatzidimitriou is the Director of School Improvement and Project Director for several Teaching American History grants within the NYC Dept. of Education.

Dr. Hatzidimitriou is also the author of 3 books:
  • Navios: A Future Built Upon a Historical Tradition of Innovation and Excellence (2007)
  • American Accounts Documenting the Destruction of Smyrna (2005)
  • Founded on Freedom and Virtue: Documents Illustrating the Impact in the United States of the Greek War of Independence(2002)
In addition, Dr. Hatzidimitriou has published many articles in scholarly journals in the fields of Byzantine and Modern Greek history and education.

Title of speech for our October 15th Conference: "The Forgotten Genocide: Teaching Students about Human Rights, Diversity and Historical Thinking."

ICSS Job Opening – Executive Director of ICSS

Job Description:
  1. Process memberships - including sending renewal letters, acknowledge receipt of memberships, and issue memberships cards.
  2. Deposit all receipts, write checks for ICSS, present annual budget at spring board meeting, and renew annual required forms to state and NCSS.
  3. File appropriate IRS forms, and Social Security documents.
  4. Attend NCSS national conferences as Illinois member-at-large and serve on other ICSS committees.
  5. Contact person for ICSS and carry out other duties assigned by ICSS Board.
  6. Select and recommend an executive secretary to ICSS board for approval. With Executive Secretary, maintain ICSS records.
  7. With the assistant of the president, program chair, and vendor chair, organize and oversee ICSS conference(s).
Compensation: Annually $2,400.00
  1. Contracted issued by ICSS Board specifying terms of employment (contract renewed at the option of the ICSS board)
  2. Reimbursed for expenses directly related to the administrative services of the Council (i.e., printing, postage, phone, etc. – budgeted items)
  3. Reimbursed for travel, but not for air travel, when required by the job description for ICSS Board, at the prevailing state rate per diem (lodging, meals, actual gas mileage – budgeted items)
Please send a letter of application and resume to:
(Deadline October 8, 2010).

Don Jolly
327 Lockwood Place
Jacksonville, IL 62650

Teaching With Primary Sources: About The Project


Teaching with Primary Sources The Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program works with an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries, and foundations to help teachers use the Library¹s vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction.

Teaching with Primary Sources builds on the success of the Library's previous outreach initiatives, particularly the American Memory Fellows and An Adventure of the American Mind programs, which reached more than 10,000 teachers.

Professional development opportunities provided under the Teaching with Primary Sources program include workshops, seminars, graduate courses, distance learning courses, and mentoring to teachers of all disciplines.

The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities (www.federationedu.org) in conjunction with its partners has developed a Teaching with Primary Sources project to integrate primary source-based teaching and learning using Library of Congress digitized resources into pre-service and in-service teacher education.

Additional Links:
Library of Congress - http://www.loc.gov
American Memory Collection - http://memory.loc.gov
Teaching with Primary Sources - www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/
News and Notices
The Constitutional Rights Foundation

The Constitutional Rights Foundation presents a new free resource for teachers called "Educating About Immigration," which includes a rich, interactive web-based educational resource. For more information, please click here.
Building America: Minnesota's Iron Range, U.S. Industrialization and the Creation of a World Power.

Weeklong Seminar
Sunday-Friday, June 13-18, 2010 or
Sunday-Friday, Aug. 1-6, 2010

Click here for more information.
New: Lesson Plans available

Please note that the lesson plans that have been posted in our newsletter are now available as printable PDF files. We will begin an archive of these lesson plans, available on the Resources page.
Membership


You can now take out a new membership or renew your existing membership online. We hope this will make it easier to keep your membership in ICSS current. Remember, it is because of your memberships that we are able to keep you informed of what is happening with social studies in the state and provide you with ideas that you can use in your classrooms through our publications and conferences.
Awards and Grants Info

Please click here to get a printable PDF form for Awards nominations.

Please click here to get a printable PDF info sheet detailing the Small Grants for Teachers Program.

Links for these 2 forms are permanently placed on the "Resources" page for future reference.
About the ICSS
The Illinois Council for the Social Studies (ICSS) was founded in 1938 in order to improve social studies teaching, to develop the professional interests of social studies instructors, and to cooperate with other organizations working for a better social understanding in the state, nation, and world. ICSS provides professional development opportunities, publications, and service to Illinois teachers. As an affiliate of the National Council for the Social Studies, ICSS is the professional organization for social educators in Illinois.

Click here or on the image to the right to view a copy of our constitution.
ICSS Constitution
Please browse the pages on this site to learn more about membership, our upcoming conferences, and the NCSS. Contact members of the Board of Directors for more information.

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