Thank you for submitting a proposal to present at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Ohio Council for the Social Studies, "Celebrating Social Studies Educators: Collaborate, Appreciate, Rejuvenate. The OCSS Annual Conference is the largest assembly of Social Studies teachers in the state. We are accepting proposals to build a high-quality program and are especially interested in hearing from practicing teachers.

Priority will be given to proposals that have an emphasis one of the following conference strands:

1. MEANINGFUL TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM: Today and Tomorrow. How best can new technologies work to advance student learning in social studies?

2. GAINING CLASSROOM CULTURAL COMPETENCIES. What strategies and resources can help in preparing youth for an increasingly global and multicultural age?

3. INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW - USING PRACTICAL INQUIRY (C3 and IDM) . How can social studies be used to prepare better informed and critically thinking learners? How can educators help students distinguish fact from fiction? How do we best incorporate civic learning to best prepare youth to confront issues facing citizens, communities, and our world today?

4 CONTENT-SPECIFIC LESSONS AND RESOURCES. What understandings and facts (by teachers or students) are foundational to successfully teaching concepts in history, geography, economics, government, or, another social studies? Proposals must advance significant social studies content understandings aligned to Ohio's Learning Standards in Social Studies.

Note: The 2022 Conference will place a priority on sessions focused on the implementation of Ohio's Financial Literacy Graduation Requirement.

5.TEACHING THE SOCIAL STUDIES WITH INTREGITY AND BEST PRACTICES. Any proposals which is considered a pedagogical "Best Practice". It still must offer a connection to the main theme of the conference. The 2022 Conference is seeking proposals which cultivate the teaching of the social studies with integrity and inquiry.

6. OPEN STRAND. Any proposals not connected the strands above. It still must offer a connection to the main theme of the conference.

Strands represent a category of breakout sessions that will be emphasized at the conference. All other proposals will be classified into a general "Open" strand. OCSS welcomes your proposal if it fits into a general open strand, but wishes to give priority to the selected strands of the conference.