2024 MCSS Annual Conference - Destination Democracy

Start
03 May 2024
8:00 AM
End
04 May 2024
5:00 PM
Location
Macomb Intermediate School District

Registration

1 Day Conference Registration-Friday Only (MCSS Member) – $80.00
This is for 1 Day registration (You must be logged into your MCSS account for this option to be available)
1 Day Conference Registration-Friday Only (Non-MCSS Member) – $130.00
1 Day Conference Registration-Saturday Only (MCSS Member) – $80.00
1 Day registration for current MCSS Members (You must be logged into your MCSS account for this option to be available)
1 Day Conference Registration-Saturday Only (Non-MCSS Member) – $130.00
2 Day Conference Registration (MCSS Member) – $120.00
$120 per person for the two days (You must be logged into your MCSS account for this option to be available)
2 Day Conference Registration (Non-MCSS Member) – $170.00
$170 per person for the two days.
2 Day Conference Student (Pre-Service) Registration – $25.00
Student registration for undergraduate students.
Conference Sponsor/Exhibitor
Institutional Membership Registration (2 Day) – $120.00
This registration is for organizations that have purchased an institutional membership for their school.
Lead Presenter Registration-2 Day (MCSS Member) – $70.00
To enable registration for this type, you will need to use the code sent via email and login to your MCSS account. This is only for the lead presenter for each presentation.
Lead Presenter Registration-2 Day (non-MCSS member) – $120.00
To enable registration for this type, you will need to use the code sent via email. This is only for the lead presenter for each presentation.
Lead Presenter Registration-Friday Only (MCSS member) – $40.00
To enable registration for this type, you will need to use the code sent via email and login to your MCSS account. This is only for the lead presenter for each presentation.
Lead Presenter Registration-Friday Only (non-MCSS member) – $90.00
To enable registration for this type, you will need to use the code sent via email. This is only for the lead presenter for each presentation.
Lead Presenter Registration-Saturday Only (MCSS Member) – $40.00
To enable registration for this type, you will need to use the code sent via email and login to your MCSS account. This is only for the lead presenter for each presentation.
Lead Presenter Registration-Saturday Only (non-MCSS member) – $90.00
To enable registration for this type, you will need to use the code sent via email. This is only for the lead presenter for each presentation.
MCSS Award Winner
Only for Teacher of the Year winners contacted by the awards committee
MCSS Board Member Registration
2 Day Conference Registration for MCSS Board Members.
Retired Member (2 Day) – $80.00
For MCSS members who hold "retired" memberships
Retired Non-Member (2 day) – $95.00

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Destination: Democracy

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania Assembly: Reply to the Governor, November 11, 1755

As we navigate the multitude of opinions about what social studies looks like in our classrooms today, it is important to remember that putting all students first and being true to our core teacher concepts we have as educators is as important as ever. We encourage presentation proposals for our theme “Destination: Democracy” for this year’s conference to celebrate all of the hard work done by our elementary school social studies teachers as they discuss everything from developing a sense of time and chronology to laying the foundation for the development of civics by focusing on the values and principles of American democracy as Kindergarten standards state. We want to celebrate the work done by our middle school teachers to promote a huge amount of social studies content from teaching spatial thinking by using maps and other geographical tools to acquire and process information to explaining the challenges faced by our new nation through an analysis of the development of the Constitution as a new plan for governing. We also want to look at how high school teachers are engaging students in everything from differentiating between the global systems of trade, migration, and political power during the age of exploration to analyzing the role of our government in the economy. This year's conference will return to the Macomb ISD May 3-4, 2024. Our keynote speakers will be Joe Spaulding who’s work on 2018’s Proposal 2 regarding gerrymandering greatly affected voting and democracy in our state. We will also hear from Dr. Annie Whitlock who’s research is centered on teaching elementary social studies through civic engagement, place-based inquiry, and curriculum integration at the University of Michigan Flint and now at Grand Valley State University. We will also hear from Mr. Carl Brownlee, a middle school social studies teacher at Fisher Magnet Upper Academy in the Detroit Public Schools who is the reigning Region 10 Teacher of the Year and a former U.S. Marine and Gulf War Veteran.

We hope potential proposals look through the lens of Destination: Democracy as we hope to create a wide range of sessions to display best practices connecting to educating our Kindergarten through twelfth grade students.

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Michigan Council for the Social Studies

A 2022-23, 2023-24 Gold Star Affiliate of the National Council for the Social Studies

13565 Port Sheldon St., Holland, MI 49424

Office Manager Mandy Laninga

Direct Line: 616-796-1502

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