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    • 10 Sep 2025
    • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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    The NGPF curriculum covers 11 units, including Investing, Taxes, Saving, Behavioral Economics, and Paying for College. Our turnkey courses include Trimester, Semester and Full-Year courses for both high school and middle school students. NGPF resources use hands-on, real-world applications that build student financial capability. Best of all, the curriculum is provided at no-cost.  The emphasis is on building teacher content knowledge, modeling various NGPF resources, and encouraging teacher collaboration. This webinar will give you an overview of the program, resources, and lessons!  MCSS is proud to partner with NGPF to provide this free to teachers all across Michigan!

    • 22 Oct 2025
    • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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    Ranked Choice Voting, RCV, is a simple upgrade to the way we vote which increases voters’ options and holds politicians more accountable by requiring winners to represent a majority of voters.  This webinar explains why our current voting system, plurality, results in a dysfunctional 2-party system, how RCV works, why voters who use RCV prefer it, how it rewards positive campaigns and encourages political cooperation.  You’ll leave equipped to begin to teach about what RCV is and isn’t in your social studies classroom.  

    Presenter:  Alex Perrin, Rank MI Vote

    Hosted by:  Dave Johnson, MCSS Online Learning Chair

    1 SCECH available for live attendance.

    • 10 Apr 2026
    • 8:00 AM
    • 11 Apr 2026
    • 4:00 PM
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    In an age of information overload where credible research, biased opinion, and outright misinformation often coexist, students need more than just content knowledge; they need the analytical skills to navigate, evaluate, and make sense of the sources they encounter. Dimension 3 of the C3 Framework emphasizes the ability to analyze sources and use evidence to support claims and conclusions within an inquiry process. Now more than ever, these skills are essential across all grade levels.

    At the 2026 Annual MCSS Conference, educators will find an array of sessions and keynotes designed to meet this moment. Across two dynamic days, attendees will select from more than sixty concurrent sessions offering practical tools, research-based strategies, and age-appropriate approaches for building students’ source analysis and reasoning skills.

    Whether you’re a veteran educator or new to the profession, this is an unparalleled opportunity to connect, collaborate, and grow alongside peers who share a commitment to preparing students for informed civic life.

    Registration remains just $150 for members and $200 for non-members.

Past events

25 Apr 2025 Building Bridges: Connecting Cultures, Ideas, and Histories in Social Studies
25 Apr 2025 2025 Conference Sponsor Registration
01 Nov 2024 Social Studies Olympiad 2025
30 Oct 2024 Voting, Elections, and PA258
09 Sep 2024 Back to School with the Levin Center
03 May 2024 2024 MCSS Annual Conference - Destination Democracy
03 May 2024 Sponsor Registration - 2024 MCSS Annual Conference
02 Nov 2023 MCSS MixTape: Making Ancient World History More Engaging for Middle School
01 Nov 2023 MCSS MixTape: Hands On Geography For a World of 8 Billion
30 Oct 2023 MCSS MixTape: Bringing Civics into Early Elementary
23 Oct 2023 MCSS MixTape: Breaking the Silence: Making Asian American History Visible
19 Oct 2023 MCSS MixTape: Culturally Responsive Curriculum Audit Process
12 Oct 2023 MCSS MixTape: Teaching Controversial Issues Without Winding Up On the Local News
14 Apr 2023 2023 MCSS Annual Conference - Change, Conflict and Controversy
06 Mar 2023 How Elections Work: A Conversation With Barb Byrum
05 Oct 2022 Social Studies Olympiad 2023
25 May 2022 Teaching the Movement
23 May 2022 The Movement Continues
18 May 2022 The Master Narrative
16 May 2022 The Long Civil Rights Movement
18 Apr 2022 2022 MCSS Annual Virtual Conference - Cultivating Collaboration in Changing Times
31 Mar 2022 Social Studies Olympiad 2022
27 Jul 2021 A Roadmap to Civic Re-Engagement: Reading, Writing, and Speaking for Change
18 May 2021 From Controversial to Complex: Building Skills for Successful Conversations
06 May 2021 Dealing with Racism in Michigan: The Past, Present and Future.
21 Apr 2021 A Story That Impacts All Of Us: Anishnaabek History in Michigan.
16 Apr 2021 Social Studies Olympiad 2021
15 Apr 2021 News Media and Civic Engagement: High School Students Find Their Voice and Place in Their Community
22 Feb 2021 MCSS Virtual Conference - The Stories We Tell!
03 Sep 2020 Targeting How We Teach Racial Issues in the Classroom
10 Aug 2020 Changing Practices for Changing Times
08 Jun 2020 Rock It, Don't Knock It: Become a Third Grade MVP
08 Jun 2020 The Second Dimension: Going Where Few Men (And Women) Have Gone Before
01 Jun 2020 Adapting Inquiry for Blended Learning
18 May 2020 Geography and Geography Integration in Distance Learning
14 May 2020 MCSS Happy Hour
11 May 2020 Teaching Social Studies to Young Children at Home: Support for Teachers and Parents
11 May 2020 Difficult Decisions in Difficult Times: Hope and Agency During the Armenian Genocide
09 May 2020 Social Studies Olympiad 2020
01 May 2020 Spring Webinar Series - Event 1
16 Apr 2020 MCSS 2020 Spring Pre-Conference Clinic: WWI 360
16 Apr 2020 MCSS 2020 Spring Pre-Conference Clinic: Learn How To DBQ
14 Dec 2019 DBQ Project Follow Up
02 Nov 2019 2019 Fall MCSS Symposium
04 May 2019 Social Studies Olympiad 2019
22 Mar 2019 2019 Annual MCSS Conference
19 May 2018 Social Studies Olympiad 2018
23 Mar 2018 2018 Annual MCSS Conference
13 May 2017 Social Studies Olympiad 2017
28 Apr 2017 2017 Annual MCSS Conference
14 May 2016 Social Studies Olympiad 2016
06 Nov 2015 2015 Joint Social Studies Conference Exhibitor Registration


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