Resources from 2018 Breakout Sessions Breakout session resources from past conferences Only current MCSS members have access to resources from breakout sessions. New event for 2019!Thank you to Minnesota Civic Youth for hosting a fantastic clinic on "Respectful Conversations in Schools"! | MCSS Annual Conference: March 3-4, 2019 |
Thank you to everyone who attended the annual MCSS conference! We are grateful to our presenters, exhibitors, sponsors, speakers, room hosts, location hosts, and all others who made this event possible.The 2019 MCSS Annual Conference took place in Duluth, Minnesota. Sunday, March 3, 2019: Pre-conference clinic Sunday, March 3, 2019: Social Studies Social (5:30-8:30 p.m.) Monday, March 4, 2019: Conference |
Conference Presentations2019 Conference schedule: 7:30-8:00 Breakfast and speaker 8:00-8:50 Session 1 9:00-9:50 Session 2 10:00-10:50 Session 3 10:50-11:30 Exhibitor time 11:30-12:30 Lunch (including Annual Meeting and Deer River Drum and Dance) 12:30-1:10 Exhibitor time 1:10-2:00 Session 4 2:10-3:00 Session 5 | Local and National ExhibitorsEach year, MCSS welcomes a variety of fantastic exhibitors! Thanks to our generous publisher sponsors, teachers will get to choose two free books (one Macmillan, one Random House). If you bring a sock or underwear donation, you get to choose a third!
| Keynote Speakers2019 Social Studies Social Speaker  Kenneth C. Davis, author of Don't Know Much About series, In the Shadow of Liberty, and More Deadly Than War 2019 Breakfast Speaker Emily Larson, Mayor of Duluth 2019 Lunch Presentation Deer River Drum and Dance students Also in attendance... Ida Rukavina, Sen. Amy Klobuchar's office |
What is new in 2019?
Sunday Afternoon Clinic with Minnesota Civic Youth
You're coming to Duluth, anyway! Come early on Sunday afternoon for a FREE clinic with Minnesota Civic Youth, focused on their new program, "Respectful Conversations in Schools." This program provides teachers and students with a model for discussing controversial issues. It is designed to increase students' civic knowledge, participation skills, and dispositions while improving classroom climate.In addition to the clinic, participants can apply for FREE ongoing support including:
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Training student facilitators at your school to lead the Respectful Conversations
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Coaching and feedback to teachers who host at least two Respectful Conversations during the school year.
Anyone who registers and pays in full for the Monday conference can attend this clinic. Teams of teachers strongly encouraged. Contact Jessica Ellison for more information.
Deer River Drum and Dance
During the lunch hour on Monday, we are pleased to welcome students from Deer River Drum and Dance. Many of the students are Anishinaabe from Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, but the group will also include students from around Minnesota and some students with Alaska Native heritage.