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 Ohios 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 Salons II ,III, IV .

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 Executive Board Room 3

Monday 11:40 12:30 PM Lunch Keynote Speaker: OCSS President Adam Motter Salons II ,III, IV

The State of Social Studies Education in Ohio

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 Hstrys free interactive timeline tool. K-12 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 Executive Board Room 3 Presenter: Dave Harmsand Joe Boggs; PENTA Career Center

Learn ways to differentiate technology using technologies available.

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 Exhibitors 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 Ohios 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? EBSCOs 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 Conference Room 2 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 Frameworks 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 planets 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 nations 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