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Join us in congratulating this year's CCSS award winners! 🏆✨ We will honor them at the 2023 CCSS Annual Spring Meeting on May 25th! Register today at ctsocialstudies.org to attend and celebrate our social studies educators & advocates.

We're back with our Wed. Night sessions!! For our elementary education teachers, this one's for you. FREE PD on integrating the new AAPI studies course in K-5 classrooms. For more information, please go to our website or use the QR code below! ⬇️

ONLY 3 WEEKS AWAY! Join us to celebrate 60 years of CCSS at CT's Old State House (Connecticut's Old State House) on May 25th. Tickets are $60! Go to ctsocialstudies.org for more information!

CCSS’s 2023 Excellence in Social Studies Education (9-12) Awardee, Daisha Brabham hosted an Oral History Project w/ her class, who are wrapping up their unit on Activism in the 60’s and 70’s. The students conducted interviews w/modern day activists from Windsor & Beyond!

Happy #NationalTeachersDay! The Teach It team is hanging out with a bunch of #educators at the CCSS's Leadership Summit today. Started out strong with a keynote from Hasan Kwame Jeffries. If you see anyone with an CT Humanities tag, say hi! #Edutwitter CT Dept of Education #histedchat

Our 2023 CT Leadership Summit at Southern Connecticut State University 🦉 began with an inspiring and thoughtful keynote by Hasan Kwame Jeffries! We have over 100 social studies leaders at our event and we’re excited to celebrate #NationalTeacherAppreciationWeek in the process!

We are now only 2 WEEKS AWAY from our Annual Spring Meeting! We would love for you all to join us for food, fellowship, and amazing presentations to honor those who have gone above and beyond in social studies. Visit ctsocialstudies.org today to register! #histedchat

Have you listened to our latest podcast ft. Stefanie Wager, Past President of National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)? 🎧🎙 Listen in to learn about Facilitating Good Inquiry in the Classroom! Go to ctsocialstudies.org/podcast to stream! #edutwitter

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! Attend our Wednesday Night PD on May 24th! This session will feature guidance on teaching environmental literacy and climate change in ALL GRADES! For more information & to register, visit: ctsocialstudies.org/meetinginfo.php Oh yeah, and it's FREE 😎 #edutwitter

Hurry! REGISTRATION CLOSES TOMORROW! Sign up for our Annual Meeting next Thursday, 5/25, at the Connecticut's Old State House! Celebrate CCSS's 60th anniversary with us! Go to our website: ctsocialstudies.org to register now!

JUST A FEW HOURS LEFT TO REGISTER! We'll have live music, great food, and lovely conversations next Thursday evening. Join us to celebrate 60 years & register at ctsocialstudies.org today! #edutwitter #histedchat

This week's podcast release🎧🎙 features the Sikh Coalition's Education Director, Harman Singh! Harman speaks about the importance of inclusivity and how the inclusion of Sikhism into social studies influences local communities. Listen on our website: ctsocialstudies.org/podcast

Check out our latest post on YouTube🎥! Adrian Solis reviews some strategies and activities he uses while teaching the African American/Black and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies Course. Find his PPT in the description box! Click here to view the video: youtu.be/XMuEqEY4Wic

Fabulous CCSS Annual Meeting. Steve Armstrong has been an educator, mentor, advocate. Well deserved award. Tony Roy never fails to get crowd going --> Social studies is revitalized!!! Our Aimee Loiselle CCSU Historians w/ Michael Bartone, CCSU elementary social stud. Central Connecticut State University

Yesterday at the CCSS Annual Spring Meeting, our team met 2 amazing #KidGovernor teachers: Mrs. Palmieri from East Haven Academy and Mrs. Grayson from Tuttle School! Thank you to these and all other teachers for the work you do to support #K5SocialStudies and #CivicsEducation!

Thank you CCSS for awarding me the John Stedman Passion for Social Studies Award. It is truly a humbling experience to have been nominated by my students for such a prestigious award.

Big events coming up with CCSS >>> Save the dates 6/8 4pm CT Social Studies Standards 6/21-22 Summer Institute 10/13 Annual Conference: Growing Social Studies ctsocialstudies.org/meetinginfo.php

We need the social studies!*!*! For society, for democracy NAEP: only 13% eighth graders proficient in U.S. history — down from a peak of 18% in 2014. A mere 22% of those students are proficient in civics, the first decline since the test began in 1998. historynewsnetwork.org/article/185806

Calling all Connecticut #teachers! Check out this great (paid!) curriculum workshop opportunity about 19th century Black community formation & civic engagement in #Hartford. See details below & register your interest today: forms.office.com/Pages/Response… #edchat #sschat #cthistory