These links offer you many resources and professional development opportunities.
Office of Education Resources
- Tulare County Office of Education – Consultant Justin Paredes
- California Department of Education – Consultant Sarah Smith
Professional Organizations
- National Council for the Social Studies – the HSS organization to which the states affiliate. NCSS hosts an annual conference, which will be digital in 2020. They publish journals and documents such as the C3 Framework. NCSS links to all state-affiliated councils on this site so you can find one near you.
- California Council for the Social Studies. CCSS offers the most comprehensive annual social studies conference in the state. Professional development opportunities arise from serving in the state committees, task forces, the board of directors, and within local affiliated organizations. CCSS maintains an interactive social media presence through Facebook.
- San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies (SJVCSS) provides information and learning opportunities for interaction through Facebook,
- Inland Empire Council for the Social Studies These websites are links to the organizations that help educators in the four core areas of social studies: history, geography, economics, and civic education.
- Tulare County Historical Society has links to all the museums in Tulare Counties.
Local Resources
Print Resources for Teaching History-Social Studies
| Building Literacy in Social Studies, Donna Ogle, Ron Klemp, Bill McBride |
| College, Career & Civic Life C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards: Guidance for Enhancing the Rigor of K-12 Civics, Economics, Geography, and History, NCSS |
| Doing History: Investigating with Children in Elementary and Middle Schools, Linda Levstik, Keith Barton |
| Essentials of Elementary Social Studies, Thomas N. Turner |
| Eyewitness to the Past: Strategies for Teaching American History in Grades 5-12, Joan Brodsky Schur |
| Historical Empathy and Perspective Taking in the Social Studies, Davis, Yaeger, and Foster |
| Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, Sam Wineburg |
| History Blueprint: The Civil War, California History-Social Science Project – UC Davis |
| In Search of America’s Past, Bruce Van Sledright |
| Knowing Teaching and Learning History: National and International Perspectives, Peter Stearns, Peter Seixas, Sam Wineburg |
| Reading Like a Historian: Teaching Literacy in Middle and High School History Classrooms, Sam Wineburg, Daisy Martin and Chauncey Monte-Sano |
| Selected Case Studies in American History Volume 1, Gardner Beery, Olson |
| Selected Case Studies in American History Volume 2, Gardner, Beery, Olson, Rood |
| Social Studies Can Be SPECtacular: and six more strategies for activating critical thinking and historical inquiry, Anthony J. Fitzpatrick |
| Teach Like a Pirate, Dave Burgess |
| Teaching History for the Common Good, Keith Barton, Linda Levstik |
| Teaching Reading in Social Studies: A Supplement to Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Teacher’s Manual, Jane K Doty, Gregory N. Cameron, Mary Lee Barton |
| Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?, Rachel Billmeyer, Ph.D., Mary Lee Barton, M.Ed |
| The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life: Roy Rosenzweig, David Thelen |
| Thinking Like a Historian: Rethinking History Instruction, A Framework to Enhance and Improve Teaching and Learning, Nikki Mandel, Bobbie Malone |
| Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer?: Teaching Historical Thinking in Grades 7-12, Burce A. Lesh – the content book also needed – The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion, Stephen B. Oates |
