Updates from the Ohio Department of Education

Revised Model Curriculum update
 

State organizations offering opportunities and resources

• The Ohio Center for Law-Related Education offers opportunities to enhance citizenship education.
• Ohio Council for the Social Studies holds fall conference
• Ohio YMCA Youth & Government program is gearing up for its 69^th high school program year
• Facing History and Ourselves offers professional development opportunity on teaching about the Holocaust
• Economics for Leaders workshop offered by Case Western Reserve University
• Barker Center offers summers programs for teachers and students
• Ohio as America Professional Development Institute to be held this summer
• May 4, 1970 Then & Now: Voices for Change workshop offered at Kent State University this summer
• Sons of the American Revolution teacher award offered

Summer Opportunities

Additional updated summer professional development opportunities are offered

Resources

• Choices in Little Rock
• Engaging Social Studies Students with Vocabulary Words
• Freedmen and Southern Society Project
• How Country Music Explains America’s Divided HistoryJon Meacham and Tim McGraw:
• Smithsonian Learning Labs

Updates from the Ohio Department of Education

• Revised Model Curriculum update
• Extended standards for social studies