When most psychology teachers think about the National Council for the Social Studies, one does not think psychology, but rather history, civics, geography, and economics. But psychology was well-represented.
However, thanks to the work of the NCSS Psychology Community (Daria Schaffeld, Sejal Schullo, Joe Geiger, and Jen Schlict), there was a tremendous lineup of psychology presentations including Charlie Blair-Broeker, Randy Ernst, Rob McEntarffer, Chuck Schallhorn and Eric Castro, Amy Fineburg, and more. This
link gives a more detailed look at the psych offerings.
I personally was able to view only a small number of presentations, but the ones I attended were fantastic. I was able to take away at least one new thing from each presenter to use in my classroom right away. Short version--it was totally worth it. I finally was able to meet people I had known online for years. The city was beautiful and the restaurants served tasty food.
I was also amazed by the vendor hall. A few that I recall are:
- Perfection Learning with the AMSCO review books
- Worth/Macmillan with the Myers' for AP and the Intro book by Blair-Broeker and Ernst
- The Zinn Educational Project
- POV (documentary series)
- At least six educational travel booths
- the DBQ project
- Teachers Discovery
- Big History Project with David Christian (he was there)
- C-Span
- Rand McNally
- Social Studies School Service
- Several Econ Booths
- Several Civics Booths
- At least one civics podcast
- StoryCorps
- and many more
I got way too much swag and samples--it will take all week to go through it all.
You can find tweets about the conference with the hashtag #NCSS2017.
Plan ahead for next year's conference in Chicago November 30-December 2, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency. Mark your calendars now! Also be on the lookout for dates for proposal submissions--I was a reviewer of them in the spring of 2017 for this conference.
posted by Chuck Schallhorn
