Opportunity for K-12 educators! National Endowment for the Humanities 3-week Summer Institute “Addiction in American History,” June 10-29, in Lexington, KY. Apply by 3/1/18. Successful applicants will receive $2700 stipend to defray costs. More at: ow.ly/2PFZ30h3Exo or e-mail: [email protected].

Follow us on National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) in the New Year! Dear NCSS_C3LC Twitter page subscribers, as of January 5, 2018, in an effort to serve you better, we will be merging NCSS C3LC with National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). We look forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations on a wonderful conference, Westchester-Lower Hudson Council for the Social Studies!

Here are two summer...or winter reading recommendations from Margaret Smith Crocco - Learn more by following the links: Sarah Vowell's "Wordy Shipmates" ow.ly/o60l30h6uLS, "Behave" by Robert M. Sapolsky ow.ly/Iuic30h6v5M.

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Spring professional learning opportunities: The 2018 Educators’ Conference on the Holocaust sponsored by the Bureau of Jewish Education & many partners, including the Arizona Council for the Social Studies, will be held Mar. 1. For more information visit: ow.ly/B01t30h73Rh.

The official public comment period on the WV proposals affecting social studies ends at 4 p.m. Monday. If you are in WV, there is still time to make your voice heard. WV Social Studies Council comment against proposed changes is described here: x.com/wvgazettemail/…

Congratulations to NCSS member Daniel Saia on being named Washington Township High School Assistant Principal! ow.ly/383q30h9qZF

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Congratulations to NCSS member Rodney D’Souza, Fifth Third Bank Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northern Kentucky University, for being honored with a Leavey Awards for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. ow.ly/kDwQ30h9rNq

Tonight is the first night of Hanukkah. Latkes are the main fried food of Hanukkah in North American Jewish homes. In Israel, people devour sufganiyot (jelly-filled doughnuts). Business rather than religious reasons account for the difference. via@HISTORY ow.ly/WMz330haWhh

NCSS is currently accepting applications from members to serve on the NCSS Notable Social Studies Tradebooks for Young People Committee. Apply by December 31 here: ow.ly/dkSC30hcI7h

Check out this recent NPR podcast & transcript interview of Daniel Ellsberg regarding his new book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War" as well as teaching suggestions on the topic at: ow.ly/RDAW30hd21x

Thank you for all your efforts! ​Together with you, NCSS and other organizations are making a difference. The proposed tax on graduate tuition credits is no longer included in the final Tax Bill from Congress: ow.ly/xeKO30hereZ CUFA Graduate Forum CUFA NCSS

Congratulations to NCSS member Rodney D’Souza, Fifth Third Bank Endowed Professor of Entrepreneurship at Northern Kentucky University, for being honored with a Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. ow.ly/kDwQ30h9rNq

Happy Holidays!! A reminder to NCSS_C3LC Twitter page subscribers that as of January 5, 2018, we will be merging NCSS C3LC with National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) . We invite you to subscribe to National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and look forward to seeing you there in the New Year!

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Happy New Year!! We wanted to remind you that as of January 5, NCSS C3LC will be merged into National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). We invite you to join us there!