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Feb 9 Meeting


 * State Amazing Race - Focus on using GPS units in social studies. UEN and Utah Geographic Alliance and USOE proposes a state-wide race. Teams from each district, including 3 geography teachers and an administrator. Friday, May 14th. Registration soon. Sponsors encouraged. Will start at USOE.
 * Saturday History Seminar on March 13. 8:30 - 3 PM
 * Hinckley Center - Huntsman Program in June 21 - 25. Designed for Civics teachers.
 * State History Fair - Nick Demas - Date and location for this year still TBA
 * Financial Literacy - Now mandated by legislature for K-12, in addition to the high school course. Will be integrated in social studies, language arts, math, but no new standards are written for any of those. The quick activities that they suggest will already tie into the core curriculum for each class/grade. financeintheclassroom.org
 * Doug Jones - Williamsburg project, series of 7 broadcasts, which are free on ch. 7 and ch. 9. Some scholarships for schools to actually interact with them. More info later.
 * Yvonne Merrill - K-2 Core through literacy, other inter-disciplinary stuff. Hands-On (activities) books on various social studies topics (cultures).
 * Tales for Teaching - K-6 Book kits - 300 books for social studies, together with activities to go with many of them. Lots of new books as well. Purchase one kit per school, the handbook for each teacher shows which books apply to which topics, could be used for multiple grades. Not for library to allow students to circulate - teacher reference. Barbara Saylor puts them together, sells them.
 * Creating Extraordinary Citizens Conference - March 17th - 8 AM - 4 PM. Registration by March 10. email Margaret.turley@schools.utah.gov
 * Tanner Humanities Center - PD for teachers, summer workshops, special guest lecturers, etc. Excellent list of summer workshops.