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Maine Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference 2017
*For conference schedule and session descriptions, see our website at http://www.mainecouncilsocialstudies.org/
When it comes to social studies, literacy means more than just using reading strategies. It means preparing our students for the changing world they will live in. Literacy means giving our students knowledge and skills in technology, global and cultural studies, economics, history, civics, and geography.
Our keynote speaker is Ms. Ekhlas Ahmed. She is a refugee and an activist from Darfur, Sudan, fled with her family to Egypt and lived there for two years before being resettled in Portland, Maine in 2005. She has since graduated high school with honors and earned a degree in sociology with hopes of helping resettle other refugees. She is the vice president and Co-founder of Darfur Youth of Tomorrow, an organization raising awareness in her community of the violence and needs in Darfur. The Darfur Youth of Tomorrow has taken Ahmed to a number of places, most recently to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where she was invited to speak about the genocide by the UN Refugee Agency and read a poem about her homeland. Ahmed teaches English at Casco Bay High School, her alma mater. She also runs a program called Make It Happen, which prepares multi lingual students for college. She is writing a book called The Bridge Between. She was also featured on the Ellen Degeneres Show.
Additional invited guests include Larry Paska, Executive Director for the National Council for the Social Studies, and Joe Schmidt, Social Studies Specialist for the Maine Department of Education.
Attendees will receive 6 contact hours.
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LocationNorth Wing, Augusta Civic Center (View)
76 Community Drive
Augusta, ME 04330
United States
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