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ICSS Fall Conference 2024

When
21 Oct 2024
7:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location
Prairie Meadows Conference Center

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:

Award winners/guests
For ICSS award winners and/or special guests of ICSS
Full Registration – $170.00
Registration includes a one-year membership to ICSS, as well as lunch, breakfast, and snacks.
Presenter/Executive Board Registration – $100.00
Registration includes a one-year membership to ICSS, as well as lunch, breakfast, and snacks.
Retired Registration – $100.00
Registration includes a one-year membership to ICSS, as well as lunch, breakfast, and snacks.
Undergraduate Student – $60.00
Registration includes lunch as well as morning and afternoon snacks.

Conference sub themes are

Assessing for learning
Evaluating sources and using evidence
Developing questions and planning inquiries
Social Studies for a Digital Age
Best practices for today and tomorrow
Disciplinary thinking skills
Buildings skills for a Civic Society

Our keynote speakers will be Keith Barton and Li-Ching Ho, authors of Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education (2022).

The conference will be

Monday, October 21, 2024

Prairie Meadows Conference Center

Altoona, Iowa

Pre-Conference Workshops will be offered on Sunday 20 October.

License renewal credit will be available for teachers who attend two 1/2 day workshops and the conference on Monday 21 October.

Analyzing First Amendment Rights with John Wheeler, Iowa Bar Association

Teaching World History Workshop

Teaching with Primary Sources: Using Inquiry to Create a Text Set

On-site workshops at the Jordan House and Bennett School with the West Des Moines Historical Society

The Iowa Council for the Social Studies is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.