Session Descriptions

Monday 8:00 9:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast
Monday 8:30 9:20 AM
PBL-ify Your Dream Vacation:
Using Student-Created Websites to Enhance PBL in the Economics Classroom
Conference Room 1
Presenter: Arch Grieve, The Dayton Regional STEM School
Participants learn how PBL can be utilized to make learning more meaningful to their students and to help
them understand how to enhance a PBL project by using free Website-creation services, such as Wix.com
or Google Sites. Participants will be guided through the Dream Vacation Project, whereby students plan
their own vacations and learn about personal finance principles through the project.
Differentiation Made Easy:
How to Have 150 learning paths and keep your weekends free.
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Seann Dikkers, Michael Kopish: Ohio University
Presenters will share differentiated and thematic experience planning, implementing, and assessing
differentiated learning models in diverse classroom settings. Session examples will include
differentiated/thematic unit planning from American History and Geography, planning tools, grading
strategies, and how to efficiently grade a diverse set of student projects.
Local Issues through Literacy: Civic Environmentalism through Text
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Matthew Hollstein, Columbus City Schools
Civic environmentalism requires students to be environmentally responsible, responsive, and action
oriented citizens. This session will present two works of non-fiction and one work of fiction and will
present how to utilize them in the classroom. The goals are to foster student led projects which aim to
address local environmental issues while fostering a rigorous academic experience.
Beyond the Walls of Your Government Class
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Ruth Seggerson , St. Francis DeSales High School
Turn your government classroom into an exciting civics lab to teach Common Core and the workings of
government by empowering students to take action on issues they care about! Civic Action Project (CAP) is a
free, national, web based supplemental government curriculum, where students from around the nation engage
with one another and learn the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and actions necessary to be effective citizens.
Authentic Service Learning in the K-8 Classroom--In 10 Days or Less!
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Jennifer Hinkle, Athens Middle School, Tracie Vegh, Ohio University
Civic responsibility is a rich, detailed theme found throughout Kindergarten to 8th grade and this session will
show social studies teachers how to incorporate Service Learning into the K-8 classroom in a short period of time
while deeply covering multiple testable standards. Best of all, students will acquire an authentic feel for civic
responsibility!
When the Standards Come Up Short:
Infusing Critical Race Theory in the Social Studies
Executive Board Room 3
Presenter: Brittany Bryant, Oak Hills High School , Dr. Prentice Chandler, University of Cincinnati
Critical Race Theory (CRT) can be infused into teaching about race in social studies classrooms. After a brief
introduction to CRT, the presenters will examine the lack of attention afforded to race in Ohios American
History Standards. To equip participants with tools and advice on teaching about race there will be an
introduction to Racial Pedagogical Content Knowledge (Chandler, 2015).

Monday 9:30 10:15 AM

Keynote Speaker: Bruce Lesh
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Salons II ,III, IV

Monday 10:15 10:40 AM

Visit the Exhibitors!
Monday 10:40 11:30 AM
A Framework for Using Video Games in the Classroom
Conference Room 1
Presenter: Matthew Wunderle Ravenna Schools
This session will provide a framework of ten considerations for using video games in the classroom that
will empower educators to choose the right game for achieving learning outcomes that are appropriate.
Autonomous Mastery Learning:
Change teaching and learning in your Middle School classroom?
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Travis Armstrong, Dublin Schools and Garth Holman, Beachwood City Schools
Essential questions, digitized lectures, student research, collaboration, student blogging, historical fiction,
self paced learning and mastery learning come together to change teaching and learning in your
classroom. Using constructivist methodology, flipped teaching and free applications participants will
learn techniques,ideas and strategies of how to create 21st century assignments.
Writing Strategies for the Elementary SS Classroom
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Helen Vassiliou, Lakota Local School District
Writing in the social studies classroom helps students not only to address a complex content, and to
prepare for state assessments, but more importantly to increase metacognition with content area
vocabulary, historical events, as well as to internalize information that they will be required to reproduce
in writing.
iCivics Ohio
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Charles Moses, Capitol Square Foundation and Beth Waldren
This session will provide an overview of a new resource for Ohio teacher called iCivics Ohio. The
resource is a web based, interactive citizenship curriculum that will focus on Ohio civics education. The
first iteration of the site includes five lesson plans targeted to 8th grade students.
Hands-on Human Geography in the 21st Century
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Cathy Knoop, Ashland University/ Population Connection
Discover hands-on middle school activities that build global awareness on population dynamics, land use
patterns and environmental impacts while cultivating critical thinking and problem solving skills,
communication and creativity. Each participant will receive a "Take-home curriculum CD-Rom!"
Ohio Social Studies Review Meeting

Executive Board Room 3

Monday 11:40 12:30 PM

Lunch Keynote Speaker: OCSS President Adam Motter
The State of Social Studies Education in Ohio

Salons II ,III, IV

Monday 12:40 1:30 PM

Create, Explore, and Engage: Using Hstry in the Classroom 100 minutes
Conference Room 1
Presenter: Claire Varner, HSTRY
Give students the power to bring historical content to life using Hstrys free interactive timeline tool. K12 teachers will walk away knowing best practices for utilizing Hstry in their classrooms.
Teaching Historical Literacies: Building Active Citizens
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Stephanie Porterfield, Warren City Schools
Learn how to teach historical literacies as a way of developing the skills necessary for active citizenship.
Emphasis is placed on the importance of historical literacy skills and how these skills prepare students to
become active and engaged citizens for the 21st century.
Featured Session:
From Guernica to Nuremberg:
Teaching Human Rights Themes in mid-20th-Century History 100 minutes
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Dr. Peter N. Carroll, Stanford University; Master Teachers: Bobbi Mucha, Tracy Blake
The issues of modern warfare, civilian casualties, and population displacement from the Spanish Civil
War and World War II led to the Nuremberg Tribunals and UN Declaration of Human Rights and
foreshadow the contemporary debates about bombing, drones, refugees/immigration, and interventionist
foreign policies.
This session will span World History and US History, drawing from various primary sources. Master
teachers will engage participants with a set of classroom-tested lessons using primary sources to examine
issues of modern warfare, human rights, and intervention/non-intervention. Lessons from The Ohio
Resource Center and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives will be presented.
Teaching Ferguson in OH:
Learning to Confront Resistance,
Reluctance and Racism in Social Studies Classroom
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Lauren Benning, Alicia R. Crowe and Todd S. Hawley; Kent State University
Participants will explore tensions encountered while teaching a five-day unit on the events in Ferguson,
MO. The lead presenter will provide an overview of both her unit planning and of her experience of
confronting resistance, reluctance and racism in her social studies classroom. After this brief overview,
the three presenters will facilitate discussion while attendees will work in small groups to examine student
comments, writing and feedback that emerged from the unit on Ferguson..
Increasing Rigor in the Classroom
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Arlo Brookhart, Trumbull County ESC, Aaron Dellorco, Tom Gorse, TCTC
Teachers will understand how to use the Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as a lens to increase rigor in
instructional practices, building assessments, and performance based tasks. DOK is a framework that
allows teachers to align their instruction with their assessments and increase the rigor throughout the year.
Using Technology to Differentiate Reading in Social Studies
Presenter: Dave Harmsand Joe Boggs; PENTA Career Center
Learn ways to differentiate technology using technologies available.

Executive Board Room 3

Monday 1:40 2:30 PM

Empowering and Engaging Through Media-Literacy.
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Jennifer Hinkle, Athens City Schools / Ohio University
By infusing lessons with technological connections such as news articles, videos, and Web learning,
teachers empower students at all levels to learn independently and successfully acquire content
knowledge, along with 21st Century skills and media literacy. This session will demonstrate a variety of
possibilities for adding layers of media content and skills to an instructional unit focused on globalization,
sustainability, and human rights that will challenge and teach all learners.
Constitutional Crises: The Reconstruction Era
Conference Room 4
Presenter: William Muthig, North Point Educational Service Center
This session is designed for teachers of American government. It proposes using the Reconstruction Era
as a means to have students examine the meaning of basic constitutional principles when challenged by a
major civic upheaval. Suggestions of topics and inquiry questions will be the focal points of the
presentation.
E-Formative Techniques for the Social Studies Classroom
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Dr. Bryan R. Drost, Firelands Local Schools
This presentation will provide an overview on what formative assessment is and how it differs from
traditional summative assessment practices, as well as discuss and model several formative assessment
techniques using technology that can be used by both beginning and veteran teachers alike. Participants
are encouraged to bring an electronic device.
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OSSR Power Panel: The Socratic Seminar in Action
Executive Board Room 3
Presenter: Victoria C. Stewart, University of Toledo, Nancy Patterson, BGSU
The OSSR Power Panel will illustrate the use of the Socratic Seminar focusing on the conference theme,
"The College and Career Ready Citizen: Increasing Rigor and Engagement for ALL" as addressed
through the Ohio Social Studies Review (OSSR) spring 2015 Forum feature articles. During spring 2015
two authors composed arguments addressing different stakeholders interpretation of the concepts of
"increasing rigor and engagement for all in the current educational environment. The OSSR Power
Panel will engage a group of social studies teachers, methods students, and others, in the Socratic Seminar
to investigate, discuss, and share their perceptions and interpretations of the OSSR forum topics.

Monday 2:30 3:00 PM

Afternoon Snack in the Exhibitors Area
Monday 3:10 4:00 PM
Prove It! Free Resources and Tools for Teaching Evidence-based Arguments
Presenter: Emily Rozmus, Melissa Higgs-Horwell; INFOhio

Conference Room 1

The pressure is on in all content areas from the instructional shift in Ohios New Learning Standards
which requires students to write arguments based on valid evidence. Where can you easily find resources
that delve into the complexities of today's most controversial issues for Social Studies? EBSCOs Points
of View from INFOhio. Explore this resource along with some useful Web 2.0 tools to create debate
diagrams and mindmaps to present issues and evidence on current topics.
Reaching Them All: Differentiation Through Assignments of Choice
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Elizabeth Raker, The University of Findlay
This presentation describes a process designed to implement differentiation assignments of choice based
on identification of student learning preferences. These standards-based assignments are organized to
provide students opportunities for deep engagement with the content and enhanced learning experiences.
Assignments of choice offer a simple and effective means of differentiation in the social studies
classroom. to use cost effective and user friendly technologies such as a green screen software they are
able to produce materials that encourage the assessment of civic education and literacy skills.
What is college and career ready in social studies disciplines?
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Michael Kopish, Ohio University; Sarah Nestor, Ohio University
Teachers must enhance their own understanding and application of literacy practices in social studies to
increase access and opportunity for diverse learners. Social studies educators must embrace the critical
role required to assist students in identifying and challenging the social construction of knowledge and
underlying assumptions and ideologies of texts (print, digital, and beyond).
Culturally Responsive Teaching:
Preparing and Inspiring Students to be Active Citizens for Change
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Alexis Storch, The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education;
Allison Curran, Hamilton County ESC
Our students are more globally connected than ever before. How can we ensure that our students are
prepared for the realities of the diverse world in which we live and work? This workshop will engage
participants in a culturally responsive examination of common-core inspired practices such as using
textual evidence, source integration, questioning, historical fiction, assessment design, and differentiation
among others. By applying the lens of cultural responsiveness, all students can access important learning
goals and content. Through a foundation of Holocaust education, this session will set the groundwork for
further opportunities to explore this important topic.
Technology Tools for Understanding and Acting Upon Climate Change Issues Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Bethany Vosburg-Bluem, Otterbein University, Otterbein Students
In this session participants will experience and use the C3 Frameworks Inquiry Arc with a focus on
Geography, to explore Climate Change issues, mitigation and adaptation strategies. Interactive technology
such as mapping tools, graphics, prediction modeling, and others from resources such NASA, Climate
Central, the EPA, Skeptical Science, etc. The challenging tools and processes used by student citizens as
they work their way through the C3 Framework allow the opportunity for them to actively engage in both
asking questions and identifying/creating solutions to our planets most prevalent yet not always obvious
crisis. Bring your devices!
University to PK-12 Partnerships:
Implementing Interdisciplinary Global Learning Projects
Executive Board Room 3
Presenter: Brad Maguth & Hal Foster, University of Akron, and Rob Walker & Heather Weeks, Barberton H.S.
This session will present an award winning university to high school collaborative centered on promoting
high school student learning while simultaneously preparing the next wave of social studies teachers
needed in our nations classrooms. In particular, the presenters will discuss a 10th grade global learning
project planned and implemented by teachers, professors, and pre-service teachers in Social Studies and
English Language Arts. This project culminated with students interviews with natives from Saudi