From: Mikki Maddox <mmaddox@necedahschools.org> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 09:28:05 -0600 Message-ID: <CADSqQZDrwuHRtBWNrNsBMN25b=Pg=_WysoZ1BGNYiD+pezJ32w@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Connect with educators in Wisconsin
Hello one and all,
The Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies will be offering an in-person
conference this year at Chula Vista in the Wisconsin Dells on Saturday and
Sunday, March 12-13.
You and/or your organization may be interested in doing sessions on
integrating local history into classrooms or if you have lending trunks or
artifacts, now might be a great time to network with teachers from around
the state.
I am working with WCSS and we will be applying for a Wisconsin Humanities
Grant to partner with organizations like many of yours to bring teachers
and local history groups together to create materials and curriculum that
will bring more local history into classrooms. We are hoping to provide
workshops at the WHS Local History conference and also then bring that
information to our conference in the spring so as to strengthen the
connections between local history and our classrooms.
As part of the beginning of this effort, I am having an inaugural ¨pop
up¨
museum for our attendees that will be focusing on WWI and will be working
with the traveling display of the Sauk County Historical Society, the
travel trunk and temporary exhibit of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, and
some artifacts from the Wisconsin National Guard Museum at Volk Field. The
plan is also to screen the documentary Dawn of the Red Arrow and try to get
some guest speakers.
I am attaching a link to our organization´s website
<https://www.wcss-wi.org/2022-conference-info.html> and conference page
<https://www.wcss-wi.org/2022-conference-info.html>
Let me know if you have any questions or would like to collaborate with us
in the future.
Mikki Maddox
-- Mikki Maddox Social Studies/English Teacher Necedah High School 1801 S Main St. Necedah, WI 54646 608-565-2256,x230 mmaddox@necedahschools.org*“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. *
Margaret Mead