- Columbus City Schools
- Social Studies
Social Studies Professional Learning
PD Days 2025-2026
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District-led PD Days will be held on the following dates for the 2025-2026 school year:
- August 20–21, 2025 — Bring Social Studies Alive: Multimodal Learning for Student Engagement
- November 4, 2025 — Inquiring Minds, Empowered Voices: Literacy & Discourse in Social Studies
- February 17, 2026 — TBD
Bring Social Studies Alive! August 20-21, 2025
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Access the program with session information here.
Session Slides:
- Learning Design Opening General Session
- Elevating Experiential Exercises through Strategy Card Games
- Hexagon Learning and Other Strategies from A History Teaching Toolbox
The make-up course will be available in the Canvas Catalog in November.
Inquiring Minds, Empowered Voices - November 4, 2025
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Information coming soon!
PD Resources
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CCS Social Studies YouTube Channel
Recorded PD sessions, tutorials, and other helpful playlists are available on the CCS Social Studies YouTube Channel.
Access the the CCS YouTube Channel here.
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TCI Implementation Resources
CCS has adopted TCI's History Alive!, Geography Alive!, Government Alive!, Econ Alive!, and Global Issues Alive! programs for core social studies courses in grades 6-12.
Access the CCS TCI Implementation Resource Center page here.
Requesting CEUs for a Non-PDS Activity
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The LPDC provides a process for teachers to request CEUs for a professional development activity for which you have received a certificate of contact or clock hours. Access the directions here for this process here.
External PD Providers
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The organizations below provide face-to-face, virtual, and on-demand PD in social studies.
- Council for Economic Education
- Digital Inquiry Group (Formerly SHEG)
- EdWeb
- Facing History & Ourselves
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- National Constitution Center
- National Council for History Education
- National Council for the Social Studies
- National Humanities Center
- Next Gen Personal Finance
- OER Project
- Social Studies School Service