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President’s Perspective
by Susan Locklear, TCSS President What can TCSS do for you? As the 2012 president of TCSS, I am dedicating my time this year to listening and responding to your answers to that question. When I first became a social studies teacher, I was confident that I knew my subject and was prepared to guide [...]
AP Summer Institutes at UT Austin
AP Summer Institutes provide Advanced Placement course training to middle and high school educators who teach or are interested in teaching Pre-AP or AP courses. UT Austin is offering 30 four-day institutes over a 6 week period this summer at the Thompson Conference Center on UT’s main campus as well as holding one institute – [...]
The Catherine B. Reynolds Civil War Washington Teacher Fellows We are now accepting applications for the Civil War Washington Teacher Fellows program to be held inWashington, DC from July 8 – July 13, 2012. Join up to 25 teachers to learn about Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and Washington during the Civil War as you spend [...]
From the Spring 2012 Issue of the Texan
This month we are offering an extended excerpt from History Makers, the current issue of our journal, The Social Studies Texan. Click here to download the cover, table of contents, and profiles these History Makers from the revised TEKS. . Adina Emilia De Zavala | Cynthia J. Beeman and Dan K. Utley Lizzie Johnson | [...]
Compete in the Heroes Day Contest
What is the Heroes Day Contest? It’s a fun, friendly competition for students from schools across the country who love history. The top 5 teams will win $1,000.00 towards their travel costs to the History Bowl contest held at a destination (to be determined) on May 12, 2012. How do I become a finalist? 1. Register your team on Franklin’s [...]
TCSS Seeks Lesson Plans and Articles
The Texan, the academic publication of the Texas Council for the Social Studies, is soliciting lesson plans and articles to share with social studies teachers. There are many good lesson plans being written and used in our Texas schools and we need to share these for the benefit of all. With the challenges of new [...]
