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Teachers Talking Shop—An Exchange of Ideas
15 Mar 2012 Chuck Taft Comments Off
Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies – March 16, 2012 What’s one of the most promising yet often least utilized opportunity at educational conferences? Meeting teachers of similar grades and subjects and swapping ideas! Moderators Michael Matera and Chuck Taft hope to remedy that with this cooperative information exchange. Come to this session to share, […]
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Tech Tools at Work—Examples of Interactive Technology
15 Mar 2012 Chuck Taft Comments Off
Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference – March 19, 2012 With the avalanche of technology tools available, it’s often difficult (and time consuming) to experiment with and successfully incorporate online platforms into the social studies classroom. In this session, specific Web 2.0 tools will be presented along with examples of integration in classroom […]
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A Civil Rights and Civil War Journey
15 Mar 2012 Chuck Taft Comments Off
What better way to learn about the Civil Rights Movement and Civil War in the Western Theater than driving 1,369 mile through 5 states, listening to historical podcasts and books on CD and trying to stop and every historical cite imaginable? I was lucky to be able to gain a grant in 2008 to do just that – and […]
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The Footsteps of Overlord
14 Mar 2012 Chuck Taft Comments Off
In the summer of 2011, I was very honored to have the opportunity to travel across the Atlantic and back in time to visit, experience, and pay tribute to the Allied forces that crossed the stormed the beaches of Normandy in order to break the Atlantic Wall and liberate France from Nazi rule during World […]
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