CREATING GLOBAL CITIZENS THROUGH CURRENT EVENTS AND CIVIL DISCOURSE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

WHO WE ARE

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES  Temoca Dixon  7-8 Social Studies, Clayton Pre-AP Academy  Literacy Studies, M.Ed.  NBCT  Northern Nevada Teaching American History Vanguard  NNCSS & NCSS Presenter  Core Advocate, Student Achievement Partners  Master-Mentor Teacher Leader,  Hannah Gaither  7-8 Social Studies, O’Brien STEM Academy  Northern Nevada Teaching American History Vanguard  Northern Nevada Holocaust Participant  Social, Emotional Learning Committee  Model Classroom Teacher for Mentor Teacher Program, WCSD

WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SOCIAL STUDIES  Early implementer of CCSS  American Radio Works Documentary  Fordham Foundation Report  35 Core Advocates for Student Achievement Partners  Center for American Progress Report  20 close read lessons available on  Nevada Ready Campaign  Grassroots effort to begin with teachers and develop own resources (not a top-down approach)  Focus on close reading, argumentative writing, document based questions, research- based discussion methods

SessionDateTimeRoom “But the Textbook Said”: Bringing Multiple Perspectives to Elementary Classrooms 11/13/15 10:05-10:55Room 213 Celebrating Human Rights through Meaningful Discussion in an Accelerated Classroom 11/13/15 11:10-12:00#219 New Perspectives on the Faces of the Holocaust (poster presentation) 11/13/15 2:15-3:05Exhibit H B Heightening Visual Literacy: Using Art as Text in U.S. History 11/13/15 5:30-6:20R03 Creating Global Citizens through Current Events and Civil Discourse 11/14/15 9:05-9:55 #226 Student Citizens Conceptualize Revolution with Concept Claim Cards 11/14/15 10:10-11:00 #228 Wish your Students had Inquiring Minds: Try Question Quads! 11/14/15 2:40-3:30Room R01 What makes people bad? Violations of Human Rights and the psychology behind them. 11/14/154:50-5:40#228

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK (AOW) *CREATING CIVIC-MINDED CITIZENS Mission: Developing civic-minded young citizens through the current events occurring in the world they live in.  Literacy Skills: Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening  Engage with the text 2-3 times  Annotate text  Text specific questions  Civil Discourse – Accountable Talk

ANNOTATING TEXT  Evidence of analysis and comprehension of text  Tracking how brain processes text  Complete and thorough, no minimum or maximum  Notes vs. Symbols vs. Highlights  Be prepared to share  C – claim; MC – mini claim; E – evidence; R – reasoning;  Choose three strongest pieces of evidence/facts/details “1”, “2”, “3”  Connections – T-T – text to text; T-S – text to self; T-W – text to world  Author’s point of view - POV

CITIZENS ENGAGE IN CIVIL DISCOURSE  Increases our understanding and strengthens our reasoning skills by discussing ideas with a diverse population and linking them to reliable sources of evidence  Eye contact  Listen without interrupting  Build on each other’s ideas, relevant to topic  Value contributions, challenging arguments, not the speaker  Text based: connect, analyze, respectfully challenge, expand our thinking

ARE NATIVE AMERICAN MASCOTS RACIST?  Are Native American Mascots Racist? By Laura Anastasia, Junior Scholastic, September Read text silently 2. Re-read and annotate 3. Discuss 4. Answer questions

ARTICLE OF THE WEEK PLANNING  Current event articles  curriculum content  Scholastic, Time, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.  Flipboard is a free app, which allows access to hundreds of publications and articles constantly being updated. A few being: Reuters, BBC World News, Al Jazeera, and The Guardian  Monday – read text  Tuesday – re-read article and annotate text  Wednesday – class discussion  Thursday – review questions, sentence starters  Friday – assignment due

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING TODAY! TEMOCA DIXON & HANNAH GAITHER – WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, RENO, NEVADA