The 89th NCSS Annual Conference will address the key responsibility of social studies educators: preparing young citizens to make a better world. Join more than 4,000 of educators from across the U.S. and around the world to share the most current knowledge, ideas, research, and expertise in social studies education.

The conference includes more than 400 sessions, workshops, poster presentations, clinics, tours, speakers and panels, and social events.

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The theme for this conference will be "Social Studies: A New Standard."

From the Colorado Council for the Social Studies website:

"Planning for schools and classrooms will be in progress by the time of this conference, and questions are numerous about the new state of Colorado Social Studies standards:

• How will these standards and expectations impact the teaching and learning of social studies?
• Will the state's 21st Century mastery model live up to the goal of fewer, clearer, and higher?
• How might current social studies teachers and teaching address Colorado's new essential skills and readiness competencies: problem solving/critical thinking, information management, collaboration, self direction, innovation, as well as inquiry, social studies application and thinking?
• What direction will social studies and citizenship accountability take in Colorado?

Join us for an exciting day of professional development, networking opportunities, and special connections to our new standards."

From the New York State Council for the Social Studies and New York State Social Studies Supervisors Association Annual Conference website:

"As educators, we know all too well the importance of teaching our students about the past. Yes, we often reveal to them the magnitude of an event, but do we as historian Daniel Boorstein pointed out, also reveal that event's hidden turning points? Aren't these events equally, if not more important as we engage ourselves into the past? We only need to remind students why we study history; for if we don't then we are doomed to repeat our all too often tragedies. One only needs to examine post WWII genocides as an example of this.

So how can we, teaching 'the next generation,' be sure to emphasize the importance of history and social studies education, and hopefully help transform our future? It is with this theme and objective that I encourage you to place these dates on your calendars for our 72nd Annual Conference: 'Engaging the Past, To Transform Our Future.'

Our committee is busy planning an exciting program that will include a variety of workshops, an extensive museum showcase, a student showcase with live performances, enriching academic forums, a game show with attendees as contestants, and two leading experts as keynote speakers. Dr. David Parker, University of Minnesota, is considered a contemporary muckraker championing against child labor abuse worldwide. His photographs and dialogue will capture the hearts of all. Dr. Parker recently contributed an article in the American Educator titled: 'Before Their Time.' Joining David is Dr. Harry Reicher from the University of Pennsylvania and Touro law schools. Harry will raise the question of how the Nuremberg Laws 'legalized' the Holocaust."