The Social Studies Teacher Leader Network meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 24th has been cancelled. The next meeting will be March 27th (note the change from March 31 originally scheduled).

Teachers,

Here is a gold-mine for primary sources… Oral-histories for the Appalachian Region. Some of these are amazing!
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Our next SSTLN meeting will be February 24th at HCTC. This will be a hard day of working with the new Social Studies standards. You might bring a laptop to do some of the work. More info will come by email. See you then!

Anyone used this resource yet? I just signed up today and am peeking around a bit.
[bpfb_link url=’https://www.opened.io/’ title=’Lesson Plans, Assessments, Homework, Videos, Games. Over a million items aligned to Common Core, PARCC, SBAC’ image=”]Teach, Learn and Analyze with the largest K-12 Resource Library[/bpfb_link]

I found this article, which is a presentation about using technology in the early years. There are videos (very short (less than minute each) – straight to the point), descriptions: what the school does for each grade level pk – 3 , what research states, and what to look for. I reviewed them all in about 15 minutes.
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