Session Descriptions Monday 8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast Monday 8:30 – 9:20 AM PBL-ify Your Dream Vacation: Using Student-Created Websites to Enhance PBL in the Economics Classroom Conference Room 1 Presenter: Arch Grieve, The Dayton Regional STEM School Participants learn how PBL can be utilized to make learning more meaningful to their students and to help them understand how to enhance a PBL project by using free Website-creation services, such as Wix.com or Google Sites. Participants will be guided through the “Dream Vacation Project,” whereby students plan their own vacations and learn about personal finance principles through the project. Differentiation Made Easy: How to Have 150 learning paths and keep your weekends free. Conference Room 2 Presenter: Seann Dikkers, Michael Kopish: Ohio University Presenters will share differentiated and thematic experience planning, implementing, and assessing differentiated learning models in diverse classroom settings. Session examples will include differentiated/thematic unit planning from American History and Geography, planning tools, grading strategies, and how to efficiently grade a diverse set of student projects. Local Issues through Literacy: Civic Environmentalism through Text Conference Room 3 Presenter: Matthew Hollstein, Columbus City Schools Civic environmentalism requires students to be environmentally responsible, responsive, and action oriented citizens. This session will present two works of non-fiction and one work of fiction and will present how to utilize them in the classroom. The goals are to foster student led projects which aim to address local environmental issues while fostering a rigorous academic experience. Beyond the Walls of Your Government Class Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Ruth Seggerson , St. Francis DeSales High School Turn your government classroom into an exciting civics lab to teach Common Core and the workings of government by empowering students to take action on issues they care about! Civic Action Project (CAP) is a free, national, web based supplemental government curriculum, where students from around the nation engage with one another and learn the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and actions necessary to be effective citizens. Authentic Service Learning in the K-8 Classroom--In 10 Days or Less! Conference Room 4 Presenter: Jennifer Hinkle, Athens Middle School, Tracie Vegh, Ohio University Civic responsibility is a rich, detailed theme found throughout Kindergarten to 8th grade and this session will show social studies teachers how to incorporate Service Learning into the K-8 classroom in a short period of time while deeply covering multiple testable standards. Best of all, students will acquire an authentic feel for civic responsibility! When the Standards Come Up Short: Infusing Critical Race Theory in the Social Studies Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Brittany Bryant, Oak Hills High School , Dr. Prentice Chandler, University of Cincinnati Critical Race Theory (CRT) can be infused into teaching about race in social studies classrooms. After a brief introduction to CRT, the presenters will examine the lack of attention afforded to race in Ohio’s American History Standards. To equip participants with tools and advice on teaching about race there will be an introduction to Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Chandler, 2015).

Monday 9:30 – 10:15 AM Keynote Speaker: Bruce Lesh .

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Monday 10:15 – 10:40 AM Visit the Exhibitors! Monday 10:40 – 11:30 AM A Framework for Using Video Games in the Classroom Conference Room 1 Presenter: Matthew Wunderle Ravenna Schools This session will provide a framework of ten considerations for using video games in the classroom that will empower educators to choose the right game for achieving learning outcomes that are appropriate. Autonomous Mastery Learning: Change teaching and learning in your Middle School classroom? Conference Room 2 Presenter: Travis Armstrong, Dublin Schools and Garth Holman, Beachwood City Schools Essential questions, digitized lectures, student research, collaboration, student blogging, historical fiction, self paced learning and mastery learning come together to change teaching and learning in your classroom. Using constructivist methodology, flipped teaching and free applications participants will learn techniques,ideas and strategies of how to create 21st century assignments. Writing Strategies for the Elementary SS Classroom Conference Room 3 Presenter: Helen Vassiliou, Lakota Local School District Writing in the social studies classroom helps students not only to address a complex content, and to prepare for state assessments, but more importantly to increase metacognition with content area vocabulary, historical events, as well as to internalize information that they will be required to reproduce in writing. iCivics Ohio Conference Room 4 Presenter: Charles Moses, Capitol Square Foundation and Beth Waldren This session will provide an overview of a new resource for Ohio teacher called iCivics Ohio. The resource is a web based, interactive citizenship curriculum that will focus on Ohio civics education. The first iteration of the site includes five lesson plans targeted to 8th grade students. Hands-on Human Geography in the 21st Century Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Cathy Knoop, Ashland University/ Population Connection Discover hands-on middle school activities that build global awareness on population dynamics, land use patterns and environmental impacts while cultivating critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication and creativity. Each participant will receive a "Take-home curriculum CD-Rom!" Ohio Social Studies Review Meeting

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Monday 11:40 – 12:30 PM Lunch Keynote Speaker: OCSS President Adam Motter The State of Social Studies Education in Ohio

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Monday 12:40 – 1:30 PM Create, Explore, and Engage: Using Hstry in the Classroom 100 minutes Conference Room 1 Presenter: Claire Varner, HSTRY Give students the power to bring historical content to life using Hstry’s free interactive timeline tool. K12 teachers will walk away knowing best practices for utilizing Hstry in their classrooms. Teaching Historical Literacies: Building Active Citizens Conference Room 2 Presenter: Stephanie Porterfield, Warren City Schools Learn how to teach historical literacies as a way of developing the skills necessary for active citizenship. Emphasis is placed on the importance of historical literacy skills and how these skills prepare students to become active and engaged citizens for the 21st century. Featured Session: From Guernica to Nuremberg: Teaching Human Rights Themes in mid-20th-Century History 100 minutes Conference Room 3 Presenter: Dr. Peter N. Carroll, Stanford University; Master Teachers: Bobbi Mucha, Tracy Blake The issues of modern warfare, civilian casualties, and population displacement from the Spanish Civil War and World War II led to the Nuremberg Tribunals and UN Declaration of Human Rights and foreshadow the contemporary debates about bombing, drones, refugees/immigration, and interventionist foreign policies. This session will span World History and US History, drawing from various primary sources. Master teachers will engage participants with a set of classroom-tested lessons using primary sources to examine issues of modern warfare, human rights, and intervention/non-intervention. Lessons from The Ohio Resource Center and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives will be presented. Teaching Ferguson in OH: Learning to Confront Resistance, Reluctance and Racism in Social Studies Classroom Conference Room 4 Presenter: Lauren Benning, Alicia R. Crowe and Todd S. Hawley; Kent State University Participants will explore tensions encountered while teaching a five-day unit on the events in Ferguson, MO. The lead presenter will provide an overview of both her unit planning and of her experience of confronting resistance, reluctance and racism in her social studies classroom. After this brief overview, the three presenters will facilitate discussion while attendees will work in small groups to examine student comments, writing and feedback that emerged from the unit on Ferguson.. Increasing Rigor in the Classroom Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Arlo Brookhart, Trumbull County ESC, Aaron Dellorco, Tom Gorse, TCTC Teachers will understand how to use the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as a lens to increase rigor in instructional practices, building assessments, and performance based tasks. DOK is a framework that allows teachers to align their instruction with their assessments and increase the rigor throughout the year. Using Technology to Differentiate Reading in Social Studies Presenter: Dave Harmsand Joe Boggs; PENTA Career Center Learn ways to differentiate technology using technologies available.

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Monday 1:40 – 2:30 PM Empowering and Engaging Through Media-Literacy. Conference Room 2 Presenter: Jennifer Hinkle, Athens City Schools / Ohio University By infusing lessons with technological connections such as news articles, videos, and Web learning, teachers empower students at all levels to learn independently and successfully acquire content knowledge, along with 21st Century skills and media literacy. This session will demonstrate a variety of possibilities for adding layers of media content and skills to an instructional unit focused on globalization, sustainability, and human rights that will challenge and teach all learners. Constitutional Crises: The Reconstruction Era Conference Room 4 Presenter: William Muthig, North Point Educational Service Center This session is designed for teachers of American government. It proposes using the Reconstruction Era as a means to have students examine the meaning of basic constitutional principles when challenged by a major civic upheaval. Suggestions of topics and inquiry questions will be the focal points of the presentation. E-Formative Techniques for the Social Studies Classroom Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Dr. Bryan R. Drost, Firelands Local Schools This presentation will provide an overview on what formative assessment is and how it differs from traditional summative assessment practices, as well as discuss and model several formative assessment techniques using technology that can be used by both beginning and veteran teachers alike. Participants are encouraged to bring an electronic device. . OSSR Power Panel: The Socratic Seminar in Action Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Victoria C. Stewart, University of Toledo, Nancy Patterson, BGSU The OSSR Power Panel will illustrate the use of the Socratic Seminar focusing on the conference theme, "The College and Career Ready Citizen: Increasing Rigor and Engagement for ALL" as addressed through the Ohio Social Studies Review (OSSR) spring 2015 Forum feature articles. During spring 2015 two authors composed arguments addressing different stakeholders interpretation of the concepts of "increasing rigor” and “engagement for all” in the current educational environment. The OSSR Power Panel will engage a group of social studies teachers, methods students, and others, in the Socratic Seminar to investigate, discuss, and share their perceptions and interpretations of the OSSR forum topics.

Monday 2:30 – 3:00 PM Afternoon Snack in the Exhibitor’s Area Monday 3:10 – 4:00 PM Prove It! Free Resources and Tools for Teaching Evidence-based Arguments Conference Room 1 Presenter: Emily Rozmus, Melissa Higgs-Horwell; INFOhio The pressure is on in all content areas from the instructional shift in Ohio’s New Learning Standards which requires students to write arguments based on valid evidence. Where can you easily find resources that delve into the complexities of today's most controversial issues for Social Studies? EBSCO’s Points of View from INFOhio. Explore this resource along with some useful Web 2.0 tools to create debate diagrams and mindmaps to present issues and evidence on current topics. Reaching Them All: Differentiation Through Assignments of Choice

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Presenter: Elizabeth Raker, The University of Findlay This presentation describes a process designed to implement differentiation assignments of choice based on identification of student learning preferences. These standards-based assignments are organized to provide students opportunities for deep engagement with the content and enhanced learning experiences. Assignments of choice offer a simple and effective means of differentiation in the social studies classroom. to use cost effective and user friendly technologies such as a green screen software they are able to produce materials that encourage the assessment of civic education and literacy skills. What is college and career ready in social studies disciplines? Conference Room 3 Presenter: Michael Kopish, Ohio University; Sarah Nestor, Ohio University Teachers must enhance their own understanding and application of literacy practices in social studies to increase access and opportunity for diverse learners. Social studies educators must embrace the critical role required to assist students in identifying and challenging the social construction of knowledge and underlying assumptions and ideologies of texts (print, digital, and beyond). Culturally Responsive Teaching: Preparing and Inspiring Students to be Active Citizens for Change Conference Room 4 Presenter: Alexis Storch, The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education; Allison Curran, Hamilton County ESC Our students are more globally connected than ever before. How can we ensure that our students are prepared for the realities of the diverse world in which we live and work? This workshop will engage participants in a culturally responsive examination of common-core inspired practices such as using textual evidence, source integration, questioning, historical fiction, assessment design, and differentiation among others. By applying the lens of cultural responsiveness, all students can access important learning goals and content. Through a foundation of Holocaust education, this session will set the groundwork for further opportunities to explore this important topic. Technology Tools for Understanding and Acting Upon Climate Change Issues Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Bethany Vosburg-Bluem, Otterbein University, Otterbein Students In this session participants will experience and use the C3 Framework’s Inquiry Arc with a focus on Geography, to explore Climate Change issues, mitigation and adaptation strategies. Interactive technology such as mapping tools, graphics, prediction modeling, and others from resources such NASA, Climate Central, the EPA, Skeptical Science, etc. The challenging tools and processes used by student citizens as they work their way through the C3 Framework allow the opportunity for them to actively engage in both asking questions and identifying/creating solutions to our planet’s most prevalent yet not always obvious crisis. Bring your devices! University to PK-12 Partnerships: Implementing Interdisciplinary Global Learning Projects Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Brad Maguth & Hal Foster, University of Akron, and Rob Walker & Heather Weeks, Barberton H.S. This session will present an award winning university to high school collaborative centered on promoting high school student learning while simultaneously preparing the next wave of social studies teachers needed in our nation’s classrooms. In particular, the presenters will discuss a 10th grade global learning project planned and implemented by teachers, professors, and pre-service teachers in Social Studies and English Language Arts. This project culminated with students’ interviews with natives from Saudi Arabia, China, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Iran, Ghana, and Brazil and in a global showcase of their research.

Tuesday 8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast Tuesday 8:30 – 9:20 AM The 21st Century Social Studies Classroom 100 minutes Conference Room 1 Presenters: Aaron Dellorco, Tom Gorse Trumbull Career and Technical Center, Arlo Brookhart - Trumbull County ESC Presentation will model apps, demonstrate iPads and Google educational products and many other resources that have proved to be highly engaging and beneficial for students and to promote learning. This session will help students be creative, improve communication skills, build collaboration, develop critical thinking skills as well as a deep understanding of technology and how to use it for learning. Please bring a laptop or other device with you to the session. African American Cultural Humanities Conference Room 2 Presenter: Victoria Shields, Ann Arbor Public Schools Victoria Shields presents the first high school Accelerated (AC) African American Humanities course in the nation! Session attendees will be guided through hands-on lesson plan development strategies that integrate art, music, literature and dance. Lessons focus on differentiation, academic achievement and rigor. Assessment Updates from Ohio Department of Education Conference Room 3 Presenter: Linda McKean, Ohio Department of Education Hear the latest updates and information surrounding Ohio’s State Tests in Social Studies. Democratizing the DBQ: A System-wide Approach to Historical Thinking, Analytical Writing and Alignment with the Common Core Conference Room 4 Presenter: Chip Brady, The DBQ Project The DBQ Project will examine ways to teach Document-Based questions that are accessible to all skill levels. Highlighting our World, US and Civics programs, this interactive session will focus on ways districts can use the DBQ as a tool to vertically align their historical thinking and writing expectations and integrating social studies and the Common Core. Interactive workshop where attendees will learn to teach a DBQ and assess DBQs by doing them. Attendees will leave the workshop with a greater understanding of the pedagogy required to reach all skill levels with the rigorous evidence-based DBQ writing approach. Developing Critical Thinking through Podcasts Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Melissa Hess, Cincinnati Christian University How are we to be purposeful in creating assessments that will engage students in a different way. We must demand that they invest more than just study time or time in the library, but invest themselves in a way that demonstrates true understanding. How can we use Podcasts in the classroom to increase rigor and engagement simultaneously developing college readiness? Understanding the Underground Railroad: Through the Lens of an Elementary Literature Circle Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Denise Dallmer, Maggi McGranahan; Indiana University East In a language arts methods course, pre-service teachers developed literature circle experiences for primary and intermediate students. Themes from the content of the Underground Railroad were used to develop integrated plans within the social studies/language arts content strands. .

Tuesday 9:30 – 10:20 AM Writing for Understanding in the Social Studies Classroom Conference Room 3 Presenter: Brian Thomas, TCI We will showcase a variety of primary and secondary sources adapted to ONLS and CCSS demands by practicing middle school teachers in a content rich middle school social studies classroom. Reaching Struggling Learners with C3 Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Gloria Wu, Toledo Public Schools Participants will be introduced to the phases of C3 - Dimension 1 - Developing questions and planning inquiries; Dimension 2 - Applying disciplinary concepts and tools, Dimension 3 - Evaluating sources and use evidence, Dimension 4 - Communicating conclusions and take informed action. Successful strategies will be discussed on ways to empower struggling learners to participate in historical inquiry, reading, writing, research, and taking civic action. How to Find the Best Digital Tools for your Classroom Conference Room 4 Presenter: Claire Varner, HSTRY In this interactive session, you will discover and evaluate a variety of new digital tools. Which tools will help ALL your students succeed? Using a research-based framework to evaluate instructional technology which recognizes the influential role of the teacher, you will walk away with a rich tool box filled with best practices ready to be shared. Creating Interactive Experiences: Tools for Students and Teachers Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Andrew Frueh, The Ohio State University Andrew Frueh is an artist and educator. He is currently a lecturer at the Ohio State University, and works with kids and teens through various workshops in the Columbus area. In this talk, he will outline some of the freely available tools that can be used by students and teachers to create engaging, media rich, interactive projects. At the end, there will be a Q&A session and Andrew will demo some of his own art works -- that will likely include some hands-on experience with virtual and augmented reality..

Tuesday 10:30 – 11:20 AM Technology Tips for the Classroom Presenters:Amanda Setters, Princeton High School; Gretchen Tash, David Martin; Princeton Community Middle School

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Learn about using web-based and computer based technology such as Powtoon, iMovie and GradeCam for the classroom. Tech Tools: Customize To Differentiate Conference Room 2 Presenter: Allison Curran, Hamilton County ESC If you can customize it, you've got a differentiation tool! So many technology applications allow the user the ability to personalize the settings. That is all you need to create a buffet of technology tools to use for differentiated instruction in social studies. This workshop allows participants to consider the customizable options of several technology tools and brainstorm ways to leverage those options for strategically creating learning opportunities for students that match up with their content readiness. Featured Speaker: Money Letters 2 My Daughter Conference Room 3 Presenter: Jackie Cummings Koski Award winning author Jacki Cummings Koski offers insights into her book “Money Letters 2 my Daughter”, a series of letters from her to her 17-year old daughter about all things dealing with money and personal finances.

How E-Textbooks are Shaping the Future of the 21st Century Learner Conference Room 4 Presenter: Alexandria Halmbacher, Ty Pierce; The Ohio History Connection Through the examination of two E-Textbook case studies, this session explores how the e-textbook, as an educational tool, improves equality of opportunity for all learners and develops 21st century skills in the classroom. Participants will be introduced to how E-Textbooks can be used to identify and address student’s unique learning needs in a manner appropriate to their learning styles, interests, and aptitudes. Sink or Swim in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and STEM Education Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Lorrin Calderon, Dr. Brad Maguth, and Karen Plaster; University of Akron Learn ways to integrate entrepreneurship and STEM education in the classroom using the "Shark Tank" approach. This approach allows students to learn how to use technology to engineer solutions to problems and emerge as informed, successful entrepreneurs. . Using Reciprocal Teaching to Boost History Literacy Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Joshua Stephens, Cleveland State University Reciprocal teaching is a literacy improvement strategy that is correlated with significant literacy gains. This session will discuss means by which teachers can utilize reciprocal teaching and participants will be provided with tools they can use to begin using reciprocal teaching in their own classrooms.

Tuesday 11:30 – 12:15 Lunch and Awards Ceremony

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OCSS Supervisors Meeting 11:30-2:30

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Tuesday 12:30 – 1:20 PM Making Your Classroom a Google Classroom Conference Room 1 Presenters: Amanda Setters, Princeton High School; Gretchen Tash, David Martin; Princeton Community Middle School Attendees will learn the basics of Google Classroom. Everyone in attendance will leave with the knowledge of how to set up a gmail account, creating Google Classrooms for all courses they teach, and how to create assignments using Google docs, forms, presentations, and spreadsheets. Attendees will have the opportunity to join a simulated Google Classroom to experience Google Classroom as a student in their class would. Finally, each attendee will set up a practice class and create assignments that include links and attachments.. Multi-tiered Differentiation in Inclusion Classrooms Conference Room 2 Presenter: Kelly Ladd, Anita Gardner; Louisville City Schools The session will focus on how American opinions of immigration have changed from the late 1800s to present day. Participants will examine the push/pull factors of immigration as well as analyze primary sources including music, political cartoons, maps and graphs and visual media. The overall learning objective of our session will be to show teachers how to differentiate through teaching strategies as well as providing students with choices in the Inclusion American Studies classroom. The skills teachers learn from our session can then be applied to other topics within the social studies curriculum. Using the Ohio Civic Health Index Report as a Teaching Tool Presenter: John P. Forren and Sarah Woiteshek-Pietzuch; Miami University

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Since 2008, Miami University has partnered with the National Conference on Citizenship to produce the Ohio Civic Health Index Report -- a periodic measure of Ohioans' levels of community and political engagement. In this session, the Report's authors will review the 2015 Report's findings on Ohioans' 'civic health' and offer tips on how teachers in grades 7-12 can use the Report as a primary source in the social studies classroom. Using Geospatial Tools to Promote Community Engagement Conference Room 4 Presenter: Victoria C. Stewart, Beth Schlemper, Kevin Czajkowski; Sujata Shetty; University of Toledo The session will describe how incorporating spatial thinking supported by technology and related geotools in the social studies curriculum will serve to prepare students to address real-world issues and promote community awareness. We will share how high school students used geospatial technologies to explore issues they perceived as significant in the neighborhood surrounding their school during a summer workshop. Particularly, we will discuss how students used spatial thinking, geospatial technologies, and citizen mapping to enhance student engagement in and knowledge of their communities. Through student exemplars, including sketch maps completed before and after participating in an NSF funded summer workshop, we will illustrate students’ developing spatial thinking skills and perceptions of the neighborhood. Fun Formative Assessment 100 Minutes Executive Board Room 2 Presenter: Travis Armstrong, Dublin Schools and Garth Holman, Beachwood City Schools As teachers, we constantly are assessing our students understanding of curriculum. From exit passes to unit tests, our schools and districts require lots of data concerning student learning. All that data and grading often gets in the way of actual teaching. Not anymore. There are great digital assessment tools available that engage students in the assessment process. Not only are they engaging, they can transform direct instruction, grade and sort your data for you and are so simple that they can be used several times a week.

Tuesday 1:30 – 2:20 PM Engaging and Motivating the Reluctant Learner Conference Room 2 Presenter: Jim O'Connor, Greg Rodgers; Princeton High School This session will provide attendees with hands-on, ready to use lesson plans for motivating and engaging all students, including the most learners. Creative and researched-based strategies will be employed, with emphasis on the techniques that makes learning interactive and relevant, such using rewards, repetition, movement, competition and reinforcement. Integrating Technology into Instruction in Meaningful Ways Conference Room 3 Presenter: Brian Thomas, TCI Technology can enhance instruction and engage students, but many teachers struggle with learning new tools and determining how to best use them in the classroom. Join TCI to discover powerful web tools and technology and ways you can integrate them into meaningful instruction, even in the one-computer classroom. Title: Budget Challenge: Road Test for Personal Finance dates Conference Room 4 Presenter: Brian Page, Budget Challenge Budget Challenge recreates the experience of managing a household budget. The competition-style, online bill-paying program scores students while a ‘learning by doing’ approach integrated with modern technology builds 21st Century skills. This session is for high school social studies educators seeking an online “hands on learning” simulation accompanied with turn-key lessons to integrate financial literacy.

Tuesday 2:30 PM-3:15 PM Keynote Speaker: Chauncey Monte-Sano

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