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The 87th NCSS Conference in San Diego will provide multiple opportunities for crossing cultural and geographic borders while building new bridges of knowledge and understanding. In planning your presentation, please consider how you might best address one of these conference sub-themes.

NCSS has defined its mission as creating effective citizens. How can we become more successful at advocating policies and practices that positively impact our mission? How can we enhance communication and create partnerships with stakeholders at the local, state, and national levels? How can we help our students develop advocacy skills needed to become effective citizens?

NCSS defines social studies as "the integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence." How can we design powerful social studies curriculum that draws upon the social science disciplines as well as content from the arts, humanities, mathematics, and natural sciences?

Educators today are dealing with increasingly diverse student and parent communities. How can we work most effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse learners, students in poverty, special needs students, and students in alternative educational settings?

NCSS defines powerful social studies teaching as "meaningful, integrative, value based, challenging, and active." How can we design instruction and assessment that promote critical thinking and deep understanding of complex issues?

Human rights and social justice are perennial challenges for a democracy that seeks to balance majority rule with minority rights. How can we address complex local, national, and global issues as we help students develop the ability to make informed decisions for the public good?

Essential 21st century skills include communication, information and media literacy. How do we teach students to access, understand, evaluate, and create effective oral, written, and multimedia messages within the disciplines of social studies?

The movement of people, voluntary or involuntary, across time and space is an enduring social studies theme. How do we help students learn about the historic, cultural and economic interactions that occurred and are still occurring as a result of migration and confront today's complex immigration issues?

The NCSS program planning committee will be using the following criteria in reviewing proposals:

1. Does the proposal relate to the theme/sub-themes of the conference?
2. Do the title and abstract match the presentation description?
3. Do the discipline and primary audience designations correlate with the abstract and presentation description?
4. Are the objectives and presentation description clearly stated?
5. Are the content and/or skills highlighted in the presentation relevant to the intended audience?
6. Do the presentation strategies include opportunities for audience interaction?
7. Can the objectives be met and activities completed in the type of presentation selected (session/workshop/poster presentation/half-day or full-day clinic)?
8. Has the person submitting the proposal submitted any other proposals?
9. Is this a session that you would want to attend?

You may request to make a presentation in any of the following formats:

• Sessions (1 hour): Informal presentations that include opportunities for presenter-audience interaction and participant-participant interaction.
• Workshops (2 hours): A more intensive format with presentations followed by interaction, practice of applications, and hands-on experiences.
• Poster presentation (1 hour): An opportunity for presenters to illustrate an innovative lesson, activity, teaching strategy, or research result on a poster and to discuss their work with interested viewers. We particularly invite first-time presenters to take advantage of this opportunity to share their best work.
• Pre-Conference Clinics: Persons interested in conducting a 3- or 6-hour clinic on Thursday, November 29, prior to the main annual conference program, please complete the clinic proposal form.
  

All costs associated with a clinic (on-site or off-site) must be included in a clinic budget to be submitted to NCSS if the clinic has been selected by the conference program committee. Clinic chairs can not be reimbursed for any costs associated with the clinic (AV, materials, transportation) that are not included in the clinic budget submitted once the clinic is accepted. The clinic ticket amount for attendees must cover all costs of putting on the clinic.

Presenters may not submit more than 2 proposals or include themselves as participants on more than 2 proposals. A limited number of proposals will be accepted for the conference. The acceptance rate for sessions and workshops is approximately 55%.

All presenters are required to register for the conference by the advanced registration deadline.

Presenters are responsible for providing any materials they plan to use or distribute in their presentation.

If you require audio visual presentation equipment, please choose from the following on the proposal form. If you will be bringing your own computer and LCD projector, please choose the screen and cart option. Rooms will not have av equipment or screens unless requested.

• Screen and AV Cart ($10)
• Overhead Projector, Cart and Screen ($20)
• Video Cassette Player (VHS), Cart and Screen ($30)
• DVD Player, Cart and Screen ($35)
• LCD Projector, Cart and Screen ($105)
• Laptop computer, LCD projector and screen ($160)

NCSS will arrange for open wireless internet access in all meeting rooms and convention center lobbies for conference participants to check email or websites. If you require Internet connectivity as an essential part of your presentation, we recommend adding a dedicated ethernet Internet connection ($70).

If your proposal is accepted, we will confirm your audiovisual needs and you will be billed for the options you chose.

Commercial solicitation is prohibited at all conference presentations. NCSS has a strong commitment to high standards of scholarship and professional development. If you are representing a commercial interest, your presentation must be educational in nature, and not a forum to sell products. If the essential purpose of the proposal is to advertise or disseminate information about books, materials, or services for sale, it will not be accepted.

Proposals that contain negative references based on ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or beliefs will not be considered.

Acceptance/rejection notification will be sent via email to the primary presenters starting in early June. Primary presenters of accepted proposals must confirm the willingness of all presenters to participate in the session. Scheduling information will be sent to all participants during the summer. Please include the best address for contacting you during the summer.

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Deadline for proposals is February 1, 2007

Paper submission is closed

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