Dear Fellow Social Studies Educators,
Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies (WCSS) offers awards and scholarships to promote and acknowledge great social studies leaders. The list below briefly describes what is available now for application or nomination. Links are provided to access more information and application forms. Please consider applying or nominating someone for the 2024 WCSS conference in Madison on March 15-17. If you have a specific question about any of them, please email Angela O’Regan at [email protected].
Warm Regards,
The WCSS Awards Committee
This award is intended to recognize a Wisconsin citizen or group who has demonstrated exemplary citizenship and the principles of social studies by promoting the common good, protecting individual liberty, honoring diversity, and improving the quality of life for others.
Do you know an outstanding social studies educator?
This award recognizes three distinguished social studies teachers, at each level: elementary, middle, and high school.
Nominate a teacher that needs recognition for their outstanding work in teaching social studies.
Are your students doing
amazing things promoting social studies in our communities, state and/or around the world? Students who recognize a need and a desire to help people are deserving of our respect and our recognition. Nominate a student or a group.
Never attended the WCSS state conference?
WCSS is offering 1 FREE TEACHER first-timer scholarship and 3 FREE COLLEGE STUDENT first-timer scholarships to attend our March conference.
The Civil Liberties: Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes the teacher who inspires students to take informed action when they see injustices and to be a responsible contributing member of our democracy.
WCSS seeks proposals from educators who require funding to develop special projects and activities relating to the goals and objectives of social studies education such as curriculum development, classroom materials, or evaluation tools.
Grants of up to $250 will be awarded.
WCSS is committed to promoting cultural diversity and equity and to educating and nurturing the next generation of educators. We want to connect to and lif up underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the Wisconsin teaching workforce.One step we are taking to make this vision a reality is to offer a BIPOC Scholarship to our Annual Conference in Madison, WI (March 15-17). Please apply, or recommend that a BIPOC educator you know applies, for this BIPOC scholarship.
