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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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

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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
Conference Room 1
Presenter: Emily Rozmus, Melissa Higgs-Horwell; INFOhio
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
Arabia, China, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Iran, Ghana, and Brazil and in a global showcase of their
research.

Tuesday 8:00 9:00 AM

Registration and Continental Breakfast
Tuesday 8:30 9:20 AM
The 21st Century Social Studies Classroom 100 minutes
Conference Room 1
Presenters: Aaron Dellorco, Tom Gorse Trumbull Career and Technical Center, Arlo Brookhart - Trumbull
County ESC
Presentation will model apps, demonstrate iPads and Google educational products and many other
resources that have proved to be highly engaging and beneficial for students and to promote learning.
This session will help students be creative, improve communication skills, build collaboration, develop
critical thinking skills as well as a deep understanding of technology and how to use it for learning.
Please bring a laptop or other device with you to the session.
African American Cultural Humanities
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Victoria Shields, Ann Arbor Public Schools
Victoria Shields presents the first high school Accelerated (AC) African American Humanities course in
the nation! Session attendees will be guided through hands-on lesson plan development strategies that
integrate art, music, literature and dance. Lessons focus on differentiation, academic achievement and
rigor.
Assessment Updates from Ohio Department of Education
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Linda McKean, Ohio Department of Education
Hear the latest updates and information surrounding Ohios State Tests in Social Studies.
Democratizing the DBQ:
A System-wide Approach to Historical Thinking, Analytical Writing
and Alignment with the Common Core
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Chip Brady, The DBQ Project
The DBQ Project will examine ways to teach Document-Based questions that are accessible to all skill
levels. Highlighting our World, US and Civics programs, this interactive session will focus on ways
districts can use the DBQ as a tool to vertically align their historical thinking and writing expectations and
integrating social studies and the Common Core. Interactive workshop where attendees will learn to
teach a DBQ and assess DBQs by doing them. Attendees will leave the workshop with a greater
understanding of the pedagogy required to reach all skill levels with the rigorous evidence-based DBQ
writing approach.
Developing Critical Thinking through Podcasts
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Melissa Hess, Cincinnati Christian University
How are we to be purposeful in creating assessments that will engage students in a different way. We
must demand that they invest more than just study time or time in the library, but invest themselves in a
way that demonstrates true understanding. How can we use Podcasts in the classroom to increase rigor
and engagement simultaneously developing college readiness?
Understanding the Underground Railroad:
Through the Lens of an Elementary Literature Circle
Executive Board Room 3
Presenter: Denise Dallmer, Maggi McGranahan; Indiana University East
In a language arts methods course, pre-service teachers developed literature circle experiences for primary
and intermediate students. Themes from the content of the Underground Railroad were used to develop
integrated plans within the social studies/language arts content strands.
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Tuesday 9:30 10:20 AM

Writing for Understanding in the Social Studies Classroom
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Brian Thomas, TCI
We will showcase a variety of primary and secondary sources adapted to ONLS and CCSS demands by
practicing middle school teachers in a content rich middle school social studies classroom.
Reaching Struggling Learners with C3
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Gloria Wu, Toledo Public Schools
Participants will be introduced to the phases of C3 - Dimension 1 - Developing questions and planning
inquiries; Dimension 2 - Applying disciplinary concepts and tools, Dimension 3 - Evaluating sources and
use evidence, Dimension 4 - Communicating conclusions and take informed action. Successful strategies
will be discussed on ways to empower struggling learners to participate in historical inquiry, reading,
writing, research, and taking civic action.
How to Find the Best Digital Tools for your Classroom
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Claire Varner, HSTRY
In this interactive session, you will discover and evaluate a variety of new digital tools. Which tools will
help ALL your students succeed? Using a research-based framework to evaluate instructional technology
which recognizes the influential role of the teacher, you will walk away with a rich tool box filled with
best practices ready to be shared.
Creating Interactive Experiences: Tools for Students and Teachers
Executive Board Room 3
Presenter: Andrew Frueh, The Ohio State University
Andrew Frueh is an artist and educator. He is currently a lecturer at the Ohio State University, and works
with kids and teens through various workshops in the Columbus area. In this talk, he will outline some of
the freely available tools that can be used by students and teachers to create engaging, media rich,
interactive projects. At the end, there will be a Q&A session and Andrew will demo some of his own art
works -- that will likely include some hands-on experience with virtual and augmented reality..

Tuesday 10:30 11:20 AM

Technology Tips for the Classroom
Presenters:Amanda Setters, Princeton High School; Gretchen Tash, David Martin;
Princeton Community Middle School

Conference Room 1

Learn about using web-based and computer based technology such as Powtoon, iMovie and GradeCam
for the classroom.
Tech Tools: Customize To Differentiate
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Allison Curran, Hamilton County ESC
If you can customize it, you've got a differentiation tool! So many technology applications allow the user
the ability to personalize the settings. That is all you need to create a buffet of technology tools to use for
differentiated instruction in social studies. This workshop allows participants to consider the
customizable options of several technology tools and brainstorm ways to leverage those options for
strategically creating learning opportunities for students that match up with their content readiness.
Featured Speaker: Money Letters 2 My Daughter
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Jackie Cummings Koski
Award winning author Jacki Cummings Koski offers insights into her book Money Letters 2 my
Daughter, a series of letters from her to her 17-year old daughter about all things dealing with money
and personal finances.

How E-Textbooks are Shaping the Future of the 21st Century Learner
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Alexandria Halmbacher, Ty Pierce; The Ohio History Connection
Through the examination of two E-Textbook case studies, this session explores how the e-textbook, as an
educational tool, improves equality of opportunity for all learners and develops 21st century skills in the
classroom. Participants will be introduced to how E-Textbooks can be used to identify and address
students unique learning needs in a manner appropriate to their learning styles, interests, and aptitudes.
Sink or Swim in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and STEM Education
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Lorrin Calderon, Dr. Brad Maguth, and Karen Plaster; University of Akron
Learn ways to integrate entrepreneurship and STEM education in the classroom using the "Shark Tank"
approach. This approach allows students to learn how to use technology to engineer solutions to problems
and emerge as informed, successful entrepreneurs.
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Using Reciprocal Teaching to Boost History Literacy
Executive Board Room 3
Presenter: Joshua Stephens, Cleveland State University
Reciprocal teaching is a literacy improvement strategy that is correlated with significant literacy gains.
This session will discuss means by which teachers can utilize reciprocal teaching and participants will be
provided with tools they can use to begin using reciprocal teaching in their own classrooms.

Tuesday 11:30 12:15

Lunch and Awards Ceremony

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OCSS Supervisors Meeting 11:30-2:30

Executive Board Room 3

Tuesday 12:30 1:20 PM

Making Your Classroom a Google Classroom
Conference Room 1
Presenters: Amanda Setters, Princeton High School; Gretchen Tash, David Martin;
Princeton Community Middle School
Attendees will learn the basics of Google Classroom. Everyone in attendance will leave with the
knowledge of how to set up a gmail account, creating Google Classrooms for all courses they teach, and
how to create assignments using Google docs, forms, presentations, and spreadsheets. Attendees will have
the opportunity to join a simulated Google Classroom to experience Google Classroom as a student in
their class would. Finally, each attendee will set up a practice class and create assignments that include
links and attachments..
Multi-tiered Differentiation in Inclusion Classrooms
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Kelly Ladd, Anita Gardner; Louisville City Schools
The session will focus on how American opinions of immigration have changed from the late 1800s to
present day. Participants will examine the push/pull factors of immigration as well as analyze primary
sources including music, political cartoons, maps and graphs and visual media. The overall learning
objective of our session will be to show teachers how to differentiate through teaching strategies as well
as providing students with choices in the Inclusion American Studies classroom. The skills teachers learn
from our session can then be applied to other topics within the social studies curriculum.
Using the Ohio Civic Health Index Report as a Teaching Tool
Presenter: John P. Forren and Sarah Woiteshek-Pietzuch; Miami University

Conference Room 3

Since 2008, Miami University has partnered with the National Conference on Citizenship to produce the
Ohio Civic Health Index Report -- a periodic measure of Ohioans' levels of community and political
engagement. In this session, the Report's authors will review the 2015 Report's findings on Ohioans'
'civic health' and offer tips on how teachers in grades 7-12 can use the Report as a primary source in the
social studies classroom.
Using Geospatial Tools to Promote Community Engagement
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Victoria C. Stewart, Beth Schlemper,
Kevin Czajkowski; Sujata Shetty; University of Toledo
The session will describe how incorporating spatial thinking supported by technology and related geotools in the social studies curriculum will serve to prepare students to address real-world issues and
promote community awareness. We will share how high school students used geospatial technologies to
explore issues they perceived as significant in the neighborhood surrounding their school during a
summer workshop. Particularly, we will discuss how students used spatial thinking, geospatial
technologies, and citizen mapping to enhance student engagement in and knowledge of their
communities. Through student exemplars, including sketch maps completed before and after
participating in an NSF funded summer workshop, we will illustrate students developing spatial thinking
skills and perceptions of the neighborhood.
Fun Formative Assessment 100 Minutes
Executive Board Room 2
Presenter: Travis Armstrong, Dublin Schools and Garth Holman, Beachwood City Schools
As teachers, we constantly are assessing our students understanding of curriculum. From exit passes to
unit tests, our schools and districts require lots of data concerning student learning. All that data and
grading often gets in the way of actual teaching. Not anymore. There are great digital assessment tools
available that engage students in the assessment process. Not only are they engaging, they can transform
direct instruction, grade and sort your data for you and are so simple that they can be used several times a
week.

Tuesday 1:30 2:20 PM

Engaging and Motivating the Reluctant Learner
Conference Room 2
Presenter: Jim O'Connor, Greg Rodgers; Princeton High School
This session will provide attendees with hands-on, ready to use lesson plans for motivating and engaging
all students, including the most learners. Creative and researched-based strategies will be employed, with
emphasis on the techniques that makes learning interactive and relevant, such using rewards, repetition,
movement, competition and reinforcement.
Integrating Technology into Instruction in Meaningful Ways
Conference Room 3
Presenter: Brian Thomas, TCI
Technology can enhance instruction and engage students, but many teachers struggle with learning new
tools and determining how to best use them in the classroom. Join TCI to discover powerful web tools
and technology and ways you can integrate them into meaningful instruction, even in the one-computer
classroom.
Title: Budget Challenge: Road Test for Personal Finance dates
Conference Room 4
Presenter: Brian Page, Budget Challenge
Budget Challenge recreates the experience of managing a household budget. The competition-style,
online bill-paying program scores students while a learning by doing approach integrated with modern
technology builds 21st Century skills. This session is for high school social studies educators seeking an
online hands on learning simulation accompanied with turn-key lessons to integrate financial literacy.

Tuesday 2:30 PM-3:15 PM

Keynote Speaker: Chauncey Monte-Sano

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