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Highlights from the Contacts Meeting last night- a big thank you to @WaxpoolES Ts for sharing SSGS PBL lessons to show how #PBL can be used to integrate SSGS with other content areas Christie McCormick Laura Rahn LCPS Social Science & Global Studies

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It was so great to join the 4th graders at @LuckettsElem for their virtual Jamestown field trip today! The students learned about artifacts, geography, and the importance of learning about and valuing all people and cultures. Thanks for inviting me! LCPS Social Science & Global Studies

So excited to have teachers learning together in person at our Performance Assessment workshop today! LCPS Social Science & Global Studies Megan O'Brien Cher Welke

Great to see student learning in action today at Harper Park Middle School as 8th graders did a gallery walk of their peers’ posters about founding documents!

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New Teacher Day! Enjoying spending the day with our new SSGS teachers! Christie McCormick @MdotSmithTeachz

Excitement is in the air at River Bend M.S. for the first day of school! What an amazing way to welcome students back LCPS News #BacktoschoolVA #WeAreOneLCPS

What an amazing day for a field trip to Montpelier with our elementary SSGS Contacts! So many thought-provoking exhibits and ideas to bring back to our social studies instruction. LCPS Social Science & Global Studies Danyael Graham @MdotSmithTeachz

VA Educators/Families: We all need to be very, very concerned about the proposed changes to the VA Social Studies/History standards & we need to take action by TOMORROW when the VBOE will meet. This doc outlines the issues and ways to take action NOW docs.google.com/document/d/18n…

Parents/teachers in VA: the proposed changes to the Social Studies/History standards are highly problematic and we should all be VERY concerned. We need to take action by TOMORROW before the VBOE meets. See this doc for the issues and ways to take action tinyurl.com/VA-SocialStudi…

We had a great day with our secondary LCPS Social Science & Global Studies teacher leaders today discussing and planning for their instructional leadership in the upcoming school year! Danyael Graham

Day 1 of our Learning Group based in the work of Project Zero - Creating Cultures of Thinking in LCPS Social Science & Global Studies! What a wonderful day of learning, reflection, and planning for the transformation of classrooms into Cultures of Thinking.

We had an amazing final day of the Creating Cultures of Thinking learning group! Started with an awesome Learning Lab and ended with great reflections. So much incredible collaboration and growth in this group! LCPS Social Science & Global Studies @MdotSmithTeachz

What a great day at the museums!

Wonderful presentation by Christie McCormick explaining how to develop civic routines with the Project Zero “whys” routine. 👏🏻 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) #NCSS2024

LCPS SSGS Office kicked off #NCSS2024 leading sessions. @MdotSmithTeachz & I discussed shifts Ts could make in Rethinking Role Play & Christie McCormick 's Igniting Civic Engagement had attendees excited to connect with the Project Zero booth! Looking forward to sessions today!