NCSS Special Interest Communities

NCSS Communities are member created groups formed around a similar interest, subject, or topic. Connect with your colleagues to discuss current topics, seek advice, and share knowledge and resources. You may choose to receive notification about discussions by email. 

NCSS Special Interest Communities are open to all NCSS members.

Interested in forming a new Special Interest Community?

NCSS Members can form a Special Interest Community by submitting a petition and application. Those forming a community must include rationale, and the names of at least fifteen NCSS members that support formation. New communities may not duplicate the  purpose and activities of an existing community.

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Academic Freedom Community  

To advocate for and support academic freedom for all educators.

  last person joined 12 days ago

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African American Educators  

To explore issues facing African Americans in schools in general, and in the teaching and learning of social studies in particular; address topics involving curriculum, teaching methods and strategies, and general schooling philosophies as they relate to the African American experience in all institutional settings.

  last person joined 13 days ago

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Asia Community  

The mission of the NCSS Asia Community is to promote and advance teaching and learning about Asia and to serve as a vehicle by which members can communicate, interact, and share ideas, research and common concerns pertaining to education about Asia.

  last person joined 2 months ago

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Assessment Community  

To identify, prioritize, articulate, and promote sound and effective assessment principles and policies for 21st century social studies education.

  last person joined one month ago

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Canada Community  

The Canada Community connects teachers, faculty, professional development providers and others who teach about Canada. We share resources and materials for learning and teaching about Canada across all subjects and at all grade levels. Join us in supporting Canadian Studies in the American Curriculum.

  last person joined 5 months ago

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Civic Learning and Engagement Community  

Welcome to the NCSS Civic Learning and Engagement Community! The purpose of the Civic Learning and Engagement Community is to investigate, consider, and propose ways of defining, promoting, and enhancing effective citizenship within NCSS, the profession, school settings, and society. We invite you to join us as we explore current topics surrounding civic education by keeping up-to-date on news, information, and research posted to this site, joining discussions on our discussion board, and working ...

  last person joined 12 days ago

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Early Childhood Elementary Education Community  

To investigate, consider, and propose ways to define, promote and enhance the teaching of social studies at the early childhood and elementary grade levels in public and private schools throughout the world.

  last person joined one month ago

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Educators for Social Justice  

To provide a forum for the professional and personal development of social studies researchers, educators and practitioners dedicated to raising awareness about institutionalized injustice, exposing the ways in which historically justified discrimination has structured and continues to structure our society, and upholding social justice as a priority in Social Studies teaching and research.

  last person joined one month ago

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Environmental and Sustainability Education Community  

Welcome! Thank you for joining! Our goal is to connect educators to each other and to promote awareness, understanding and facilitation of the dynamic and complex connections among the social studies disciplines and both environmental education (EE) and sustainability education (SE). This community will strive to provide a forum for NCSS members to network, discuss, advocate, and support programming, resource dissemination and professional development related to EE/SE and social studies. Please ...

  last person joined one month ago

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Friends of NCSS  

Welcome to Friends of NCSS. We are a community dedicated to assisting NCSS in its mission of providing leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators. We stand ready to serve NCSS in various ways throughout the year as needs arise—and have fun doing it. Our aim is to to help sustain NCSS as the world’s premier professional organization for social studies educators.

  last person joined 3 months ago

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Geography Community  

The mission of the Geography Community is: 1. To promote geography education in the schools through the implementation of the National Geography Standards and the NCSS Standards. 2. To provide a net work for teachers of geography for the sharing of information. 3. To encourage the integration of the concepts of geography in social studies programs in meaningful and recognizable ways.

  last person joined 2 months ago

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Human Rights Education Community  

The Human Rights Education Community seeks to enrich the place of human rights and humanitarian law in social studies education.

  last person joined 2 months ago

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Indigenous Education  

To encourage and support the accurate teaching of American Indian, First Nations, and indigenous people groups through journal articles, conference sessions, tours, speakers, etc.

  last person joined 12 days ago

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Instruction Community  

Members of the Instruction Community look for, discuss, and analyze best practices in instruction. We share resources and opinions. We ask each other for tips about teaching specific units. If you have ideas to share or would like an idea about an upcoming unit (e.g. the American Civil War), this community exists to serve as a forum. If you could use a teaching tip (e.g. classroom management), or if you'd like to share an idea or post an article or essay that you've written, again, we are a forum ...

  last person joined one month ago

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International Collaborative Community  

To foster global awareness and global communication among social studies educators, share teaching resources with a global perspective, publicize and discuss global issues, and facilitate community among global minded NCSS members.

  last person joined 2 months ago

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Issues Centered Community  

The Issues-Centered Community was founded for the purpose of introducing teachers to issues-centered approaches to teaching social studies and other school subjects, with the aim of helping teachers create stronger linkages between students' lives and the subjects, topics, issues, and themes they study in school.

  last person joined 4 months ago

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Middle East Community  

The community brings together Social Studies educators interested in teaching about the Middle East.

  last person joined 2 months ago

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NBCT Community  

To promote and facilitate communication between National Board Certified Social Studies teachers, teachers interested in pursuing board certification, university teachers and researchers, social studies curriculum leaders, and all educators interested in accomplished social studies teaching

  last person joined 13 days ago

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Non-Public Schools Community  

The Non-Public School Community of the NCSS provides a forum for non-public social studies teachers and administrators to dialogue issues of common interest and concern, share resources, and encourage cooperation between public and non-public social studies educators.

  last person joined 5 months ago

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Psychology Community  

Thank you for taking the first step in uniting yourself with other Psychology and AP Psychology teachers around the country. The purpose of this organization is to help in the teaching of Psychology in pre college and in Advanced Placement Psychology. Please email us at ncsspsychcommunity@gmail.com to be added to our email list. If you are on Facebook please join our page: NCSS Psychology Community. Please invite other NCSS Members to join our community. Chair: Daria Schaffeld Vice Chair: ...

  last person joined 12 days ago

 
Category NCSS Communities Grade Level Secondary Subject Area Psychology
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