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Welcome Back to School!
Please take a look at the resources below for upcoming units in the New Visions Social Studies Curriculum and take note of our announcements and opportunities in social studies.
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If your students have already experienced this unit in previous grades, review the concepts before going on.
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In this unit, students are introduced to the
social
, political, and economic challenges colonists faced from the early 1600's to the 1750's. Explore the
Additionally, explore the Three Reads and Writing Cycle
instructional routines for US History to help you unpack difficult texts, support writing skills, and more all year round.
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New Visions Instructional Routines for Social Studies
At NVPS, our goal is to nurture students who can engage in independent learning by
internalizing strategies to tackle familiar and unfamiliar tasks and texts.
To facilitate the development of historical thinking skills and independence, we created instructional routines that can be used with documents and topics throughout the social studies curriculum to teach students skills like contextualization, sourcing, and connecting cause and effect. The routines come with presentations, templates, mini-lessons, and explanatory features for teachers.
We hope that by using these routines repeatedly throughout the year and by removing scaffolding as the year progresses that students will develop independence with these skills.
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BIG C-little c contextualization activity found in the Contextualization Instructional Routines.
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A Three Reads Protocol poster featured in the Sourcing Routine for Global.
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Activity in the Cause and Effect Chain Routine.
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US History New Exam Memo and New Assessment Items
USH Framework aligned Assessment Items:
Stimulus Based MC are now available for units 1, 2, and 7 - 10. The rest will be made available before the end of September.
Navigate to unit pages and look for "Framework Aligned Assessment Bank" and "End of Unit Assessments" to find them.
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Looking for a Teaching Position in New York City?
Consider a New Visions School
New Visions is looking for talented educators like you! Our Fall 2018 teaching application can be found at
newvisions.org/careers
. We look forward to helping you or colleagues you refer find a perfect match within our network of 79 schools!
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Opportunities in Social Studies
September 23, 2019
Brooklyn Connections offers a delicious day of food and history at the Museum of Food and Drink and a tour of the museum's current exhibition, "Chow: Making the Chinese American Restaurant," which looks at the birth and evolution of Chinese American cuisine and this vital community's immigration and contribution to New York City. Participants will leave with fun lesson ideas and classroom activities using food related archival sources from the Brooklyn Collection including, menus, photographs, and advertisements.
5 CTLE Credits available.
Presenter: Timothy Lent, New Visions for Public Schools
September 26, 2019
Syracuse Professional Development Center, 1005 W. Fayette St., Syracuse, NY 13204
Presenter: Timothy Lent, New Visions for Public Schools
Developing Independence with Historical Thinking Skills
Using concepts from the fields of cognitive science and culturally responsive teaching in conjunction with resources from the New Visions for Public Schools Social Studies Curriculum, participants will learn strategies for helping students to contextualize and source documents independently. This workshop will discuss the use of formative assessment, feedback tools, instructional routines, and intentional descaffolding to help students meet expectations on the Framework-aligned Regents Exams and beyond.
Call for Presenters at the New York State Convention for the Social Studies
The
NYSCSS
82nd Annual Convention, the largest gathering of New York State Social Studies teachers, will be take place in Albany from March 12th through 14th, 2020. This year's theme is "Think Global. Act Local."
Proposals are due by October 1, 2019. Please consider sharing your expertise with your colleagues from across the state!
Monday, October 7, 2019
3:30 - 6:30pm
Brooklyn Collection, Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238
Are you a teacher looking for primary resources for your classroom? Are you a student who wants to access an archive for your upcoming research project? Do you want to dive deeper into sources for a History Day project?
Join Brooklyn Connections and the Museum of the City of New York to meet archivists and librarians who will share information about their collections around New York City. Discover primary sources that can help your research, and learn where and how to access these from archives around New York City. Students and teachers welcome; student attendees will be eligible for a draw for a new tablet!
Using Your Voice: Empowering Students Through Social Studies
Saturday, October 19, 2019
School of the Arts, Rochester, NY
Keynote: Dr. Sharroky Hollie
November 2, 2019
Registration & Check-in 8:30am
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
West Seneca West Senior High School
3330 Seneca St.
West Seneca, NY 14224
Breakout sessions for elementary and secondary teachers and
administrators pertaining to the NYS SS Frameworks, New U.S. History &
Global 10 Regents Exam updates, Civic Engagement Task Force updates,
incorporating state and local history into your curriculum, and local
museums and vendors on hand to provide resources and opportunities for
teachers to create inquiry experiences for students.
The largest social studies convention does it big, Texas-style this year!
New Visions will be presenting on the Green Book and Reconstruction resources in our US History curriculum.
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Questions? Please contact a member of our Social Studies Curriculum Team:
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Aruna Arjunan (US History)
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aarjunan@newvisions.org
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@AmArjunan
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Timothy Lent (Global)
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tlent@newvisions.org
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@KameelahNVPS
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Kameelah Rasheed (Global)
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krasheed@newvisions.org
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@TimothyLent
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