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

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. 

Information coming soon!

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.

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