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ICSS Fall Conference 2024

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

Registration is closed


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




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