CCSS FALL CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
October 27, 2015
SESSION ONE: 9:30-10:20
1-1An Integrated Approach to the Social Studies Frameworks
Presenters: Melissa Null & Kathy Weiss, Redding Public Schools
Target Audience: K-5
1-2Early Guilford Days: A Hands-On Approach to Local History
Presenters: Pat Lovelace & Hope Ryan, Guilford Keeping Society
Target Audience: K-5
1-3Teach It: What Is It? Why Use It? Help Build It!
Presenters: Gregg Mangan & Laura Krenicki, Connecticut Humanities Council
Target Audience: 3-12
1-4Incorporating Economics Across Social Studies, Grades 6-12
Presenters: Chad Ellis & Colleen Peling, West Hartford Public Schools
Target Audience: 6-12
1-5Student-Centered Learning and the Inquiry-Based Challenge Project
Presenters: Daniel Morisse-Corsetti & Matthew Banas, Meriden Public Schools
Target Audience: 9-12
1-6When “New” Really works: Success with Source Analysis Using DEMO
Presenters: Joseph Marangell, East Haven Public Schools & Regine Randall, Southern Connecticut State University
Target Audience: All
1-7History Detectives: Using Inquiry through Primary Source Workshops
Presenters: Sarah Cahill & Krystal Rose, Mystic Seaport
Target Audience: 4-12
1-8Conducting Research 2.0: How Middle School Teams Can Collaborate to Enhance Student
Inquiry
Presenters: Monica Sheehan & Ramona Biondi, New Canaan Public Schools
Target Audience: 5-8
1-9Three Branches and You: Creating Documentary Videos through the Inquiry Process
Presenters: Shannon McNeice & Delores Bates, West Hartford Public Schools
Target Audience: 6-12
1-10Integrating Connecticut Women’s History into Your Social Studies Classroom
Presenter: Bambi Mroz, Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
Target Audience: 6-12
SESSION TWO: 10:35-11:25
2-1Social Studies Embedded into the Elementary Classroom
Presenter: Regina-Julie Albee, Southington Public Schools
Target Audience: K-5
2-2Hands-On Materials Make Learning Engaging
Presenter: Sheila Miller, Nystrom
Target Audience: K-5
2-3 Fostering Curiosity: Inquiry in Elementary Social Studies
Presenters: Lauren Francese, Westport Public Schools & Tony Andrade, Connecticut History Day
Target Audience: K-5
2-4Using an “Economic Way of Reasoning”: The Unintended Consequences of War: Truman, the Bomb, Obama, and ISIS
Presenter: Douglas Young, Council for Economic Education
Target Audience: All
2-5Learning through Inquiry: Yearning to Breathe Free: Changing Attitudes about Immigration,
1880-1920
Presenter: Kate O’Mara, Regional District #17
Target Audience: 6-12
2-6Using Newly-Digitized Historic Connecticut Newspapers for Inquiry-Based Instruction in High
School History Courses
Presenter: Christine Gauvreau, Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project of the Connecticut State
Library
Target Audience: 9-12
2-7World War One: Teaching the Great War from a Local Perspective
Presenters: Christine Pittsley, Connecticut State Library & Stephen Armstrong, Connecticut
Department of Education
Target Audience: 9-12
2-8K-12 Vertical Articulation: A View through the Lens of Social Studies
Presenters: Steven Strand & Dana Mortensen, Waterbury Public Schools
Target Audience: All
2-9Women’s History, Women’s Rights and Feminism: An Application of the New Social Studies
Frameworks
Presenter: Meaghan Davis, BRAVE Girls Leadership
Target Audience: 9-12
2-10Sneak Peak and Critique: Inquiry Toolkits for Connecticut Classrooms
Presenters: Anthony Roy & Kelly Falvey, Connecticut River Academy & Connecticut Council for
the Social Studies
Target Audience: All, Museums & Historical Societies
SESSION THREE: 1:05-1:50
3-1Call to Action: Addressing Climate Change in Connecticut
Presenters: Donna Leake, University of New Haven & Laura Krenicki, Colchester Public Schools
Target Audience: K-8
3-2A Revolutionary Idea: A Case Study for Integrated Inquiry Units
Presenters: Christina Vida & Denise Malnati, Windsor Public Schools
Target Audience: K-5, Museums & Historical Societies
3-3Integrating the Social Studies Frameworks into a Global Studies Course to Promote Advocacy
And Activism
Presenter: Elizabeth Devine, West Hartford Public Schools
Target Audience: 9-12
3-4The Economic Consequences of Racial Discrimination
Presenter: Douglas Young, Council for Economic Education
Target Audience: All
3-5 Inquiry Stations: Using Station Teaching to Support Inquiry Instruction at the Secondary Level
Presenter: Sara Slegesky, CREC
Target Audience: 6-12
3-6Human Rights Education in Social Studies Classrooms
Presenter: Glenn Mitoma, Director, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Target Audience: All
3-7Custom Tools That Help Meet the Connecticut Frameworks and Support CCSS
Presenter: Sheila Miller, Nystrom
Target Audience: 5-12
3-8Seymour Yesterday and Today: Farms, Fields and Factories: A School and Community
Educational Partnership
Presenters: Carolyn Ivanoff, Shelton Public Schools & Barbara Junko, Seymour Historical Society
Target Audience: All, Museums & Historical Societies
3-9CSI and Haunted History: Have Your Students Solve History’s Mysteries
Presenters: Karen Boyea, Michael Galatioto & Evan Olmstead, Greenwich Public Schools
Target Audience: 9-12
3-10Slavery in Connecticut: Using the Inquiry Arc in History
Presenters: Christine Jewell, Fairfield Historical Society & Ian Lowell, Monroe Public Schools
Target Audience: 6-12
SESSION FOUR: 2:05-2:50
4-1Geography in the Elementary Classroom
Presenter: Laura Krenicki, Colchester Public Schools
Target Audience: K-5
4-2Using Theme-Based Instruction to Frame Inquiry
Presenter: Tom Brodnitzski, CREC
Target Audience: K-5
4-3Teaching Thematically Using Inquiry: A Mini Lesson from Greenwich High School’s Global
Studies Curriculum
Presenters: Ian Tiedemann & Megan Roby, Greenwich Public Schools
Target Audience: 9-12
4-4Integrating the Social Studies Frameworks and Connecticut History to Promote Civic
Engagement
Presenters: Elizabeth Devine & Tracey Wilson, West Hartford Public Schools
Target Audience: 6-12
4-5Meet the New Frameworks and Engage Students through History Day in Connecticut
Presenter: Rebecca Taber-Conover, History Day in Connecticut
Target Audience: 6-12
4-6Truth and Reconciliation: Can Teachers Change the Narrative around Native Americans in New
England?
Presenters: Dr.Mishy Lesser, Learning Director, Upstander Project; Jennifer McMunn, Mansfield
Public Schools; Glenn Mitoma, Director, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of
Connecticut; Jacob Skrzypiec, Manchester Public Schools
Target Audience: 5-12
4-7What New Teachers and Pre-Service Teachers Need to Know
Presenter: Gene Stec, Trumbull Public Schools
Target Audience: All
4-8China on the World Stage: Weighing the U.S. Response: The Choices Approach
Presenter: Dennis Cabrera, Darien Public Schools
Target Audience: 6-12
4-9Effective Strategies for Reading History
Presenter: Ed Dorgan, Regional District #10
Target Audience: 6-12
4-10Connecting in Connecticut: Developing a “Take Action” Project through a Partnership with
Your Local History Society
Presenters: Jennifer Murrihy, ACES & Tawana Graham-Douglas, Plainville Public Schools
Target Audience: All, Museums & Historical Societies