Missouri Council of the Social Studies Annual Conference: Full Schedule

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8:15am CST

Registration; Breakfast

Saturday February 22, 2025 8:15am - 8:55am CST

Windsor

Speakers

Kerri Flynn

Executive Secretary, Missouri Council of the Social Studies

Before becoming the Education Director for The Genocide Education Project, Kerri Flynn was a high school social studies and English teacher in Missouri for 25 years. She taught dual credit Psychology and Sociology, Modern U.S. History, and Human Rights and Genocide, a course she developed. Flynn received the University of Chicago Outstanding Educator award... Read More →

Saturday February 22, 2025 8:15am - 8:55am CST
Windsor

8:15am CST

How Travel Develops Teachers: A Roundtable Discussion

Saturday February 22, 2025 8:15am - 8:55am CST

Windsor

In this session, Missouri teachers who have traveled the world will participate in a round table to discuss successful strategies used to be accepted into top teacher travel programs around the world! If you are looking for international travel or travel within the States, this session is for you. The professional develop on these trips is simply amazing and you will be a better educator because of it. Participants will also answer questions and help you complete an application on the SPOT!

Speakers

Rhett Oldham

Saturday February 22, 2025 8:15am - 8:55am CST
Windsor

All

9:00am CST

Inquiry Through Time: Exploring History's Untold Narratives

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST

Augusta

With a strong emphasis on ethnic studies classes and resources, educators often find it challenging to find materials that truly engage their students. Students are eager for lessons that bring value and impact to their lives. I invite you to join me and learn about resources that are ready to use in your classroom and have the potential to make a significant impact on your students.

Speakers

Erin Conklin

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Augusta

All

9:00am CST

Personal Stories & Spatial Reasoning Help Students Develop a Sense of Historic Time

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST

Calhoun

Chronology - placement of historical events - is a challenge for students whose awareness of the world may be only a decade. Understanding chronology begins by identifying events in their own lives. This can be expanded if students visualize and personalize the passage of time with these three elements: draw a timeline, the math number line's social studies counterpart, to create a graphic organizer; designate it as a visual story line; and personalize the content with the first-person experiences of individuals in the students' lives. This presentation will demonstrate the strategy and engage participants in developing their own timelines.

Speakers

Ray Wicks

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Calhoun

All

9:00am CST

African American History Taught Through Its Cemeteries

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST

Rocheport

Segregation isn't just about life--it's about death, too. Cemeteries offer insights into the role of Jim Crow in community history and a unique way to present that history. This content presentation discusses the "red-lining" of death and ways to present it to students.

Speakers

Jeff Smith

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Rocheport

Middle School High School

9:00am CST

The Holocaust by Bullets: A lesser known story of the Holocaust and the Personal Connection to my Husband’s Family

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST

Matsun

This learning session shares a personal narrative of professional learning and sheds light on a lesser-known aspect of the Holocaust. Participants are encouraged to continue learning and exploring the history of World War II and the Holocaust. Lessons come from a conference I attended through Yahad In-Unum

Speakers

Brooke Rich

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00am - 9:50am CST
Matsun

Middle School High School

10:00am CST

The Frontiers of Content and Pedagogy: Teaching with Primary Sources

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST

Calhoun

For many teachers, primary sources serve as a new frontier. Primary sources sit at the frontier of content because they offer insights into stories of the past that might be unknown. Primary sources also sit at the frontier of pedagogy because teaching with primary sources such as documents, oral histories, cartoons, photographs, and paintings, requires innovative strategies to promote higher order thinking with these different source types. In this session, teachers will learn how to locate primary sources that uncover stories of the past while also learning engaging new strategies for teaching with them.

Speakers

Tina Ellsworth

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Calhoun

All

10:00am CST

Flipping the script: Translating transnational funds of knowledge of Asian American and migrant youth into practices and implications for social studies teachers

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST

Matsun

Asian and Asian American students are the fastest-growing racial group in K–12 education. However, through their K-12 education, Asian and Asian American students have little opportunity to learn about the histories, cultures, and heritage of their communities. This workshop will share findings derived from the researcher’s youth participatory action research with Asian and Asian high school students and provide insights into ways to incorporate Asian and Asian American students’ transnational funds of knowledge in social studies classrooms. Attendees will learn ways to provide students with more rigorous, engaging, and hands-on learning about Asian American history, harnessing students’ transnational funds of knowledge.

Speakers

Yeji Kim

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Matsun

Middle School High School

10:00am CST

Teaching Indigenous Genocides

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST

Rocheport

Using a comparative lens, participants will examine aspects of North American Indigenous Genocide and the Armenian Genocide. Through exploration of primary and secondary sources, participants will analyze how these two cases have impacted survivors and descendants, and how ongoing denial contributes to continued ethnic cleansing and repression today.

Speakers

Kerri Flynn

Executive Secretary, Missouri Council of the Social Studies

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Rocheport

Middle School High School

10:00am CST

When Good Laws Go Bad: Unintended Consequences in History

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST

Augusta

Throughout history, legislation has been crafted with the intent of solving an economic, political or social problem. History courses usually focus on the intended effects of those policies. In this session teachers will share with students examples throughout history that unintended consequences are more consequential and, in an active learning lesson, conduct basic cost-benefit analysis of decisions government makes every day.

Speakers

Mike Kaiman

Saturday February 22, 2025 10:00am - 10:50am CST
Augusta

Middle School High School

11:00am CST

Keynote Speaker: Jody Sowell and Closing Remarks

Saturday February 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

Windsor

Speakers

Jody Sowell

President, Missouri Historical Society

Jody Sowell is president of the Missouri Historical Society. He is, in fact, only the 7 th president in the 158-year history of the institution. MHS operates the Missouri History Museum, the Library and Research Center, and Soldiers Memorial Military Museum downtown. Jody has worked... Read More →

Thomas Herron

Saturday February 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
Windsor

All