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--Featured Summer Workshop Opportunities--
Our very own, Julia Berg, MDCSS Board Member, will be co-leading this professional development seminar. What a great way to introduce archeology to your students!
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The 2025 Summit will include:
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Targeted sessions with tracks for elementary and secondary educators
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Innovative ways to teach core personal finance concepts and decision making including credit, insurance, and more
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Concentrated sessions focused on understanding and teaching economics and global citizenship
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Exhibit hall
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Who Should Attend?
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Elementary, Middle and High School Teachers and Administrators
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Teachers from Public, Private, and Homeschool Communities
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Teachers of Social Studies, Math, Gifted and Talented, Personal Finance, Business Courses, ROTC, Family and Consumer Sciences and more!
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Teachers Interested in Networking with Other Teachers and Learning Best Practices
All Participants will Receive:
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Teaching Resources
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Valuable Information You Can Apply to Your Own Life
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Breakfast and Lunch
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Networking Opportunities
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Swag Bag
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Certificate of Attendance
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$50 Stipend (all day participation required)
Featuring session presentations
by MDCSS Board Members:
Joey Landgraf and George Toepfer
This seminar will explore the intersections of Holocaust education, racism, and antisemitism in Baltimore. Using the Holocaust as a touchstone, participants will engage with historic and modern urban issues such as the historical roots of antisemitism, scientific racism, housing segregation, educational inequality, racial violence, forms of community activism, and connecting local histories and Holocaust studies in the classroom.
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Interactive strategies for teaching the Holocaust and human rights to young adults
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Seminar sessions on overlapping histories of systemic racism in the US and Nazi Germany
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Lesson-building workshop and peer-review
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Books and other resource materials
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Professional development hours available
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Experiential visits to local sites with local experts, including the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Black/Jewish Forum of Baltimore, Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, and Laurel Cemetery Memorial Project
Our very own, Julia Berg, MDCSS Board Member, will be co-leading this professional development seminar.
Check Out Our Updated Calendar!
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MDCSS aims to connect you with the most up-to-date opportunities to grow your craft as a social studies educator. Our calendar now features various professional learning opportunities in the field, including in-person and virtual courses, workshops, lectures, and more! Most opportunities are free of cost, but those requiring a fee will be denoted with a dollar sign ($).
