E³: Empowering Entrepreneurship Education – first annual conference for teachers of grades 2 to 20.  Don’t miss it. It will be an experience of a different kind!  e3 Flyer.pdf

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Where: UofA Global Campus in Rogers

For: Teachers grade 2 to 20

Why: To build a stronger Arkansas through Entrepreneurship Education

Curricular Benefits: project based learning and creative and critical thinking

For You: networking, lunch, teaching activities, professional development, $50 stipend, 6 hours of ADE PD,

To Register: http://www.economicsarkansas.org/our_supporters/event_calendar.html/event/2013/06/25/e-sup-3-sup-empowering-entrepreneurship-education

                $25 registration fee but it will be returned to EA district teacher upon successful completion.

Questions: rlittrell@walton.uark.edu

WHAT: AR HISTORY summer seminar opportunity

WHO: Butler Center/CALS

FOR: secondary social studies teachers

WHEN: June 12-14

• Funded by the Arkansas Humanities Council, the seminar will provide two nights of lodging plus meals in Central Arkansas, tours of central Arkansas museums, and a  day trip  to the Delta.  
• The seminar will focus on content associated with Civil Rights issues based on essential questions regarding the Emancipation Proclamation, the Freedom Trail, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Jim Crow, Desegregation of Central High, Sundowner Towns, and Civil Rights Legislation.   Additionally, attendees will participate in a lecture about the Civil War in Arkansas.
• Presenters will provide history content and curriculum guidelines.  The Literacy Design Collaborative model for instruction will be utilized.  Attendees will receive resources for use in classroom instruction.  Attendees will be expected to provide resource sharing ideas for use on the Arkansas History Hub. 

Please contact Kay Bland by return email if you are interested in attending the seminar. 

Kay P. Bland, Ed.D., K-12 Education Coordinator

Butler Center for Arkansas Studies

Arkansas Studies Institute

Central Arkansas Library System

100 Rock Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

501-320-5713, 501-537-4559 (fax)

EconEdLink and CCSS
 

Check out the new addtions to the CCSS page of this wiki for great Econ resources aligned to the CCSS.  

Street Law, Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society will sponsor two sessions of the annual Supreme Court Summer Institute, June 13-18 and June 20-25, 2013. The Institute is open to secondary level social studies teachers & supervisors. 

See opportunites for Educators page for details.  

The Bill of Rights Institute announces

 2013 Founders Fellowship Program is now open for applications!  

Civil Liberty, Commerce, and the Constitution
Washington, D.C. July 22-26
See  Opportunites for teachers page for additional information

“What Every Arkansas Educator Needs to Know About

Common Core State Standards”

has been updated and additional resources have been added.  You can access both excel and pdf versions of the document on the Common Core page of this wiki.  

Five (5) Big Ideas

From Common Core Standards to Curriculum_ Five Big Ideas.docx