Welcome to the ICSS web site
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Spring 2012 Conference
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The Spring 2011 ICSS conference will be held at McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington, Illinois.
Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 8am - 2pm |
Please note: when you click to register, both "membership" and the Spring Conference are listed; just put quantity=1 in the box next to the item you want to buy.
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Below are links to the various forms needed for the Spring Conference. The first of each is a standard PDF which can be printed out, filled in and mailed to John Rathbun, 308 James Pkwy., Washington, IL 61571. The second of each is an interactive PDF which can be filled out online, saved, and then e-mailed to John Rathbun at . You only need one of each, we are just providing two options for your convenience.
Session Proposal form, standard PDF.
Session Proposal form, interactive PDF
Registration form, standard PDF.
Registration form, interactive PDF
Vendor/Exhibitor form, standard PDF.
Vendor/Exhibitor form, interactive PDF
If you are interested in joining the ICSS, please click below for our Membership form.
New Membership Application, standard PDF
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Teaching With Primary Sources: About The Project
 The Library of Congress's Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program works with an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries, and foundations to help teachers use the Libraryıs vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction.
Teaching with Primary Sources builds on the success of the Library's previous outreach initiatives, particularly the American Memory Fellows and An Adventure of the American Mind programs, which reached more than 10,000 teachers.
Professional development opportunities provided under the Teaching with Primary Sources program include workshops, seminars, graduate courses, distance learning courses, and mentoring to teachers of all disciplines.
The Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities () in conjunction with its partners has developed a Teaching with Primary Sources project to integrate primary source-based teaching and learning using Library of Congress digitized resources into pre-service and in-service teacher education.
Additional Links:
Library of Congress -
American Memory Collection -
Teaching with Primary Sources -
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| News and Notices |
New: Lesson Plans available
Please note that the lesson plans that have been posted in our newsletter are now available as printable PDF files. We will begin an archive of these lesson plans, available on the Resources page.
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Membership
You can now take out a or online. We hope this will make it easier to keep your membership in ICSS current. Remember, it is because of your memberships that we are able to keep you informed of what is happening with social studies in the state and provide you with ideas that you can use in your classrooms through our publications and conferences.
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Awards and Grants Info
Please click here to get a printable PDF form for Awards nominations.
Please click here to get a printable PDF info sheet detailing the Small Grants for Teachers Program.
Links for these 2 forms are permanently placed on the "Resources" page for future reference.
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| About the ICSS |
The Illinois Council for the Social Studies (ICSS) was founded in 1938 in order to improve social studies teaching, to develop the professional interests of social studies instructors, and to cooperate with other organizations working for a better social understanding in the state, nation, and world. ICSS provides professional development opportunities, publications, and service to Illinois teachers. As an affiliate of the National Council for the Social Studies, ICSS is the professional organization for social educators in Illinois.
Click here or on the image to the right to view a copy of our constitution.
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| Please browse the pages on this site to learn more about membership, our upcoming conferences, and the NCSS. Contact members of the Board of Directors for more information. |
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