Return to 50th FCSS Conference is a Huge Success Home

Conference attendees were treated to a variety of experiences on Friday and Saturday of the conference weekend.  Sessions offered a wide spectrum of interests for social studies educators.  Other  highlights included were Thursday’s guest speakers Kenneth C. Davis and Bert Bower. 

Kenneth C. Davis, one of two guest speakers on Thursday, October 11,  was entertaining as well as informative.  People magazine once said, “reading him is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had.”  He speaks frequently before public library and educational groups about the need to make learning more appealing and has appeared at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institute.

Bert Bower is CEO and President of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI) and also spoke to conference attendees on Thursday evening, October 11.  His corporation is dedicated to training and supporting social studies teachers in a series of innovative teaching strategies that allow students with diverse learning styles to “experience” history.  Bower taught social studies for eight years at Mountain View High School in Mountain View, California, authored several social studies textbooks for D.C. Heath and Company in Lexington, Massachusetts and received a doctorate in Social Studies Education from the Stanford University School of Education. 

Friday and Saturday, during the scheduled sessions devoted to a wide variety of topics, the exhibit hall offered educators the opportunity to see the latest in social studies resources.

Friday evening was highlighted by the Awards Dinner which honored specific award winners as well as Social Studies Teachers of the Year for Florida..