Great Lakes Regional Conference

April 23-24, 2009 at the Lisle Hilton, Lisle, Illinois
Hosted by the Illinois Council for the Social Studies

The conference will begin with registration at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, April 23, followed by a variety of sessions, a visit to our vendors, and our first featured speakers Max and Donna Daniels as Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln at 10 a.m. Our luncheon, which begins at 12:15 p.m., will feature speaker Bruce David Janu, who teaches social sciences at John Hersey High School in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. His presentation will be based on his award-winning documentary Facing Sudan that has garnered two Best Documentary Awards. The evening activities get underway at 4:45 p.m. with ‘An Evening at Cantingy' featuring wine and hors d’oeuvres followed by a tour of their two museums, the World War II museum and the Robert McCormick mansion. The evening will continue at 8 p.m. with camaraderie and food at Lou Malnattis.

Friday's conference again opens with registration at 7:30 a.m., and sessions beginning at 8:30 a.m. Vendors will once again be available for viewing their products. The conference concludes with a luncheon, followed by our third featured speaker, Dr. Stacy Cordery, whose most recent work is Alice, a complete biography of "Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker."

The 2009 Conference Guest Speakers and Topics are as follows:

Dr. Michael Lockett, professional storyteller
"Learning to Use Storytelling to Raise Achievement in Social Studies" and
"Storytelling: Lincoln’s Own Model for Teaching"

Tom Best of Monmouth-Roseville Schools
"Hollywood’s Lincoln"

Brandon J. Sethi of Urbana Middle School
"Native Americans in the Media: The Representation of Americas Forgotten Minority"

Antony Deter, Morrison Junior High School
"Japan Pop: Teaching Contemporary Japan through the Visual Arts" and "Tales of the Hibakusha: Rehumanizing the atom bombings"

Anita North Hamill of Oak Park and River Forest High School
"The Abraham Lincoln Scrapbooks

Michael Stoll of New York University and Paul Kelly of John Hersey HS of Arlington Heights
"Integrating Critical Thinking and Writing into the Social Studies Classroom: A Model That Works"

Glen & Linda Weatherwax of the Illinois Geographic Alliance
"Foods, Feasts, and Fun"

Dr. Lucianne Brown and Dr. Sandi Estep of Governor’s State University
"Soldiers, Outlaws and Spies of the Civil War – SOS Strengths"

Ken Weingard of Population Connection
"The People Connection: Hands-on Human Geography"

Dr. Mary Beth Henning and Jennifer Clarke of Northern Illinois University, Trista Matson of Ashton Franklin Middle School, and Danielle Bell of Wright Elementary School Dekalb
"Teaching African-American History through Children’s Literature and Primary Source Documents,"
"Children’s Thinking about the Concepts of Landforms, Regions and Citizenship: How Can We Teach These Concepts Better?" and
"A WebQuest in 2nd Grade to learn about Community Services"

Name: Roger La Raus of National Louis University
"Creating MEANINGFUL Social Studies Learning for Increasingly DIVERSE Student Bodies"

Dr. Frederick Isele of Western Illinois University Quad Cities
"Lincoln's Legacy: Teaching Freedom and Democracy with NCSS National History Standards"

Jason Stacy and Rowena McClinton of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"Using Primary Sources to Train Prospective History Teachers"

Mark Newman of National-Louis University and Sarah Manuel of Bell School, Chicago
"Studying Cities with Pictures"

Lee W. Eysturlid of Illinois Math and Science Academy
"The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: When Ideas Matter and How to Teach Them."

Martin Moran of Francis W. Parker School in Chicago
"Rethinking the World History Survey-A Thematic Approach"

Dr. Phyllis Henry of Benedictine University
"Teaching With the Humanities: The Life and Times of Lincoln"

Dr. Kevin O’Brien and John Rathbun of Bradley University
"Current Events in the American Economy"

Shawn Healy of McCormick Freedom Museum
"Press Freedoms in the Information Age: Sources, Shields and Citizens"

Bethany Hill-Anderson, Ph.D. of McKendree College
"Was Abraham Lincoln a Gifted Learner?"

Kamran Memon, Esq. of Muslims For A Safe America
"Teaching About Islam, Muslims, And The War On Terror"

Marge Fulton and Gaye Flowers from Holocaust Education
"They Stood Firm Against Nazi Assault"

Ronald Levitsky and Anastasia Skoupas of : Genocide Education Network of Illinois (GENI) and the Pontian Greek Society of Chicago
"Despair, Death, and Denial – The Armenian and Greek Genocides"

Dr. Joyce A. Witt of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Regional Education Corps. And Illinois State University
"Bringing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to your Classroom"

Byron Holdiman of Quincy University
"Bringing Lincoln to Life with Primary Sources"

David Manuell of Library of Congress Ambassador
"Abraham Lincoln and the Library of Congress"

Lee Morganett of Indiana University Southeast
"Motivating Students to Learn in the Social Studies Classroom"

Brian Reid of Artifact Box Exchange Network and Denise Reid of Eastern Illinois University
"The Artifact Box Exchange Network: Using Project-Based Learning to Help Students Learn about the Place Where They Live"

Cindy Rich of Eastern Illinois University and Michelle Fry and Kris Maldre of Loyola University Chicago
"Learning with Lincoln’s Letters: Family Letters, Executive Writings and Civil War Telegraphs"

Carolyn Riley of Northern Illinois University
"Democratic Deliberation: Using the Class Meeting"

Howard Romanek of Illinois State University
"Preparing Students to Read, Write, and Think Critically in the Social Studies Classroom"

Margo Tomares of DePaul University
"Abraham Lincoln Led with Pen and Sword"

Tiffany Willey of American Bar Association Division for Public Education
"Parading Toward Women’s Suffrage with Timelines, Primary Sources, and Historical Thinking Skills"

Kevin Daugherty of Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom
"Growing a Nation – The Story of American Agriculture"

Marita Decker, Justine Braskich; Julie Schaul of Barat Education Foundation
"Beating the Constitution Challenge"

Renae Elert of Hill-Murray School/ ABC-CLIO
Opening Windows to World Cultures With Geography

Mary Fortney of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
"Children in the Civil Rights Movement: Facing Racism, Finding Courage"

Peter H. Gibbon of Boston University School of Education
"Abraham Lincoln and American Identity"

Mollie Hackett of Brown University, Choices Education Program.
"Students as Policy-makers: Confronting Foreign Policy Dilemmas"

Walt Herscher of The American Promise
"Using ‘The American Promise’ in all Levels of Classrooms"

Dan W. Johnson of Cambridge-Isanti High School
"‘LIFE in the PAST LANE’ - Great ‘Stuff, Styles & Stories’ of American History"

Robert May of Flint Community Schools
"A Second Dred Scott Decision"

Catherine Mein of Ballard High School, Madrid, IA
"Landscape and Literature: Teaching Place Characteristics with Poetry and Art"
"William Blake and J.M.W. Turner: Commentary on the Industrial Revolution"

TCI Trainers
"Econ Alive! Dynamic Methods for Teaching Economics,"
"Government Alive! Public Opinion and the Media," and
"Social Studies Alive! Making Social Studies Dynamic for Young Learners".

For more information contact or call 618-438-0512.

For more information about our featured speakers, click the links below:

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