Transcript Social Studies: State of the Union

Social Studies:
State of the Union
April 12, 2014
Let’s Celebrate!!!
 Mix, Pair, Share
 Find a partner from a different
school and stand back to back
 Turn and Share Using these
Sentence Starters:
 This spring, I learned the strategy
of ____!
 This spring, my students were very
successful at ___!
 This spring my PLC really helped
me with ____!
 This spring, I overcame a
challenge by _____!
Great American Philosopher:
Yogi Berra
“The
future
ain’t what
it used to
be.”
HB5 Update
Great American Philosopher:
Yogi Berra
“If you don’t
know where
you are
going, you
might wind
up someplace
else.”
Where are our students
going?
 College bound students
should still take the four by
four
 If students take all four
years of social studies, they
automatically earn a
Multidisciplinary
Endorsement
 If students take five credits
of social studies, they earn
an Arts and Humanities
Endorsement with an
emphasis in social studies
 College Admission
programs aren’t seeking
specific endorsements—
they want overall
preparedness
 Multiple endorsements
can be earned
 Students may change their
endorsement at any time
 After the sophomore year,
students may choose to
graduate only with the
foundation plan with
written parent permission
(after a meeting with
counselors)
Great American Philosopher:
Yogi Berra
“I tell the
kids,
somebody’s
gotta win,
somebody’s
gotta lose.
Just try to get
better.”
BISD Preregistration Data
2014-15
 BHS
 452 World Geography
 470 in World History
 RHS
 613 World Geography
 545 World History
 HHS
 529 World Geography
 947 World History
 Numbers include all course
levels (on level, pre AP and
AP)
 Numbers do not include new
summer/fall enrollment
 What does this data tell us?
 What challenges might we be
facing as a result of these
enrollment numbers?
 How might our
practice/thinking need to
change as a result of these
numbers?
 What do we not know?
 What about the 2015-16
school year?
Great American Philosopher:
Tom Landry
“I don’t believe in
team motivation. I
believe in getting a
team prepared so it
knows it will have
the necessary
confidence when it
steps on a field and
be prepared to play
a good game.”
Curriculum Writing Progress
 Horizontal grade level
teams will be meeting
this spring to
 Continue to write
clarifying documents for
incomplete units
 Review current
documents
 Continue to align district
resources to units
 Begin development of
exemplar lessons
Looking Forward to
Professional Development
All professional staff in Birdville ISD is required to attend at least 6 hours of professional
development outside of contract time each year. This learning should be instructionbased and focus on staff’s assigned content area(s). Over the span of 5 years, each
professional staff member should receive a total of 30 hours of learning within the four
categories below:
Summer Professional
Development in BISD
Face to Face:
 Bringing Social Studies
Alive! in BISD July 21-22
 Implementing the DBQ
Level I July 21
 Writing Mini-DBQs Level II
July 22
 Best Practices in Pre-AP
Social Studies July 23
 Writing Exemplar Lessons
in Pre-AP Social Studies
July 24
E Courses:
 Maps101.com webinars
 Making Thinking Visible in
Social Studies (3 hours)
 Developing Formative
Assessments for Social
Studies (3 hours)
 Literacy Strategies for
Social Studies (3 hours)
Summer Professional
Development: Partnerships
 Law Related Education Hatton W. Sumners Institute on the
Founding Documents Register at www.lretexas.org
 101 Course Fort Worth June 23-27, 2014
 201 Course Mansfield June 23 – 27, 2014
 Must have attended 101 in a previous year
 May attend single day events
 Day One: Federalism
 Day Two: Evolution of Equality from the Northwest Ordinance to
Present Day
 Day Three: Analyzing American Political Divisions Beginning with the
Federalist/Anti-Federalist Debate to the Present
 Day Four: Oyez, Oyez: An Update on the 2012-13 Supreme Court
 Day Five: Constitutional Changes
Summer Professional
Development: Partnerships
 Humanities Texas
 $200 stipend, plus on-campus housing provided at no cost
 http://bit.ly/1ktgQju
 The United States in the 1960s
 June 9 – 12 at LBJ Library Austin
 June 10 – 13 at University of Houston
 The United States in the 1860s
 June 16 – 19 The University of Texas at San Antonio
 June 17 – 20 The University of North Texas Denton
Summer Professional
Development: Partnerships
 Texas Council for Economic Education Statewide Smarter
Texas Conference June 17-18, 2014
 http://economicstexas.org
 $240.00 registration plus hotel expenses would have to be
picked up by the campus
 ESC Region 11 www.esc11.net
Fees vary
 Document Based Questioning Enhancing Reading, Writing, and
Critical Thinking in SS, June 10, 2014
 Building Critical Thinking in the Secondary Social Studies
Classroom, July 15, 2014
 Social Studies in a Notebook July 22, 2014
 Amon Carter Museum, July 24, 2014
 Supporting Secondary Struggling Social Studies Students in
Grades 6 – 12, July 30, 2014
Adding Professional Learning to
Your Portfolio
 Eduphoria Workshop, click on “My Portfolio” at the top
of left of the screen
 Add a New Portfolio Entry from an Outside Workshop or
conference
 Complete the form and send evidence of attendance to
Crysten Caviness
 Detailed instructions on this process are available on the
BISD Professional Learning Webpage
http://schools.birdvilleschools.net/Page/25066
Great American Philosopher:
John Wooden
“If you don’t
have time to
do it right,
when will
you have
time to do it
over?”
Textbook Selection
Committees
 Will convene next year
 Membership will be made up of
teachers from each feeder
pattern for each grade level
 Spread representation across all
campuses
 Committees will have to
determine the % of TEKS actually
covered by the books
 Committees will have to think
through the issues of print,
ebooks, bundles, etc.
 Committees will make a
recommendation to the board for
all courses
 Including courses designed for
implementation in 2015-16
Great American Philosopher:
John Wooden
“If I am
through
learning, I
am
through.”
Horizontal Grade Level
Meetings
 Options:
 Plan/share what you are
doing to review for STAAR
8th grade/ US EOC
 Discuss revisions you
would like to recommend
to the curriculum writers
for your subject
 Share exemplar lessons
and resources
 Design an upcoming
lesson
 Work on updating AP
course syllabus, review
sessions, alignment of AP
released items to specific
AP standards, etc.
 “It isn’t what you do, but
how you do it.”
 John Wooden
 “Setting a goal is not the
main thing. It is deciding
how you will go about
achieving it and staying
with the plan.”
 Tom Landry
 I will visit with each group.
Dismissal time is at 1:30.