STEP 1: If you don’t already know who your Senators and Representatives are, go to the Senate and House websites: Senate www.senate.gov -- look up your Senators by state House  www.house.gov  -- enter your zip code to find your Representative.   STEP 2: Contact your Congressional offices to find out the name and e-mail address of the legislative assistant who handles education policy issues. call the DC phone number and ask for the name of the legislative assistant who handles education policy issues. Ask for the staffer’s e-mail address, which is the best way to…

Tips on Preparing for your Meeting In preparation for your meeting, collect a few facts, figures and anecdotes that are specific to your state or the local schools, or a few stories as examples to use in your meetings. These could include but aren’t limited to: How teaching social studies supports development of critical thinking skills and civic engagement; ​The percentage of high schoolers who leave school without history or civic education classes Any statements from business leaders in your area about how the skills taught in social studies prepare students to be good…

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The International Assembly provides a forum for collaboration and interchange of ideas among NCSS members from the United States and foreign countries. The Assembly promotes linkages among NCSS educators to enhance professional development, to enrich social studies learning, and to share research, learning activities, and teaching methods with global perspectives. The Assembly conducts its own program and business meeting during the NCSS Annual Conference. (NCSS membership is required to be a member of Associated Groups, including International Assembly.) IA Members-Get Connected Connect…

Who May Submit an Article? Anybody may submit an article to Social Studies and the Young Learner. The editors especially look for manuscripts co-authored by classroom teachers and professors, or authored by K-5 classroom teachers alone. What are Good Topics? Articles in Social Studies and the Young Learner show how social studies (history, geography, civics, economics, anthropology, etc.) is taught in the pre-K-6 classroom. The lead article often provides background on the theme for that issue. A children’s literature piece describes how to use quality books in the classroom. A pullout…

Call for Manuscripts for Social Studies and the Young Learner If you are an enthusiastic elementary teacher or teacher educator with great ideas that you have implemented in the classroom, we invite you to share your work. Here are upcoming themes. We also welcome pieces that do not fit these particular themes, as well as reviews of children’s literature and books for teachers. World History and Geography for Young Learners In our interdependent world, there are numerous ties between the local and the global, and between the present and the past. Questions…

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NCSS offers two programs to affiliate councils for increasing NCSS and affiliate memberships. BrokeringMembership brokering applies to the recruitment of new members or former members when membership has lapsed for a full year.How it worksAn affiliate council recruits a new member for NCSS and collects the dues of the new member.The council retains 50% dues and forwards the other 50% to NCSS.If a council mistakenly "brokers" a membership for an individual who is already an active member of NCSS, NCSS will bill the council for the 50% share of the dues the…