Welcome to the Santa Clara County History-Social Science & Civic Engagement Program!
Our mission is to provide instructional and other services to improve understanding of economics, geography, world and United States History, and Government, as well as to instill the skills and dispositions of civic learning and participation. We seek to move history-social science education beyond the rote memorization of facts by engaging students in the inquiry of documents and images and engaging with non-fiction text.
* The SCCOE offers history-social science workshops, conferences, and student events for K-12 educators.
* Customized professional learning services for districts for all areas of history-social science.
* Professional development for choosing and implementing adopted textbooks.
The Content, Literacy, Inquiry, and Citizenship (CLIC) Project.
* Professional learning and resources to help educators and school administrators successfully implement California's History-Social Science Framework.
The California History-Social Science Framework
Status of the California Ethnic Studies Initiative
* Resources from the California Department of Education to help students understand what is happening in the world today.
*The Bob and Marion Wilson Teacher Institute of Colonial Williamsburg 2021
During the summer of 2021, we will continue to provide online programming for teachers and students.
For teachers:
Courses
- Building Inquiring and Analysis Skills by Engaging with Primary Sources
- Teaching about Race and Slavery in the Colonial and America Revolutionary Periods
Webinar series
- Unraveling the Tapestry: Diverse Perspectives on the American Revolution
For students: Please stay tuned for new and more accessible online resources and programming during the 2021-2022 school year.
To stay up to date on Colonial Williamsburg intructional resources, teacher professional development opportunitie, and Teacher institute scholarships, please go to
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/on-site-opportunities/teacher-institute/#subscribe and/or follow the Colonial Williamsburg Education Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/colonialwilliamsburgeducation.
HSS Textbook Adoption Toolkit
Download the 2018 HSS Textbook Adoption Toolkit [PDF]...
California HSS Framework
Curious to know what is new for you in History with the Framework? The State Board of Education, The University of California’s California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP), and the SCCOE are working together to support teachers, administrators, and districts with how to utilize the HSS Framework over time to “design, implement, and maintain a coherent course of study, to teach content, develop inquiry-based critical thinking skills, improve reading comprehension and expository writing ability, and promote an engaged and knowledgeable citizenry in history and the related social sciences.”(HSS Framework Intro pg1).
The documents available to download here will help answer some of the questions you may be having at the moment.
