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The Teacher Leader Toolkit

What is the Teacher Leader Toolkit?

The Teacher Leader Toolkit was developed by the North State History-Social Science Project to serve as a resource for teachers who participate in its programs. Teachers may use the Toolkit to refresh their understanding in a number of important areas – backwards planning of curriculum, designing assessments, creating rubrics, using primary sources, helping struggling readers access History-Social Science materials – by employing the Toolkit as a reference.

It is our hope, however, that teachers will also apply the Toolkit on a larger scale by using it to make presentations to other teachers – in staff meetings at their sites, at district in-services, or in some other venue. To that end, the Toolkit offers a number of self-contained presentations, complete with handouts, activities, and presentation notes.

Where do I start?

If you plan to offer a series of presentations from the Toolkit, the logical order in which to do so is the way they are listed above. Each presentation, however, is designed to stand alone. The Toolkit also contains a three week unit for eighth grade students titled “The Road to the Constitution” that may be used as both a model and a resource with several of the presentations, California’s History-Social Science Content Standards and English-Language Arts Content Standards, as well as a participant information form so that teachers who attend your presentation may be entered in the California Subject Matter Projects’ database.

Presentations are offered in Adobe Acrobat PDF versions. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat the icon below will take you to the Adobe site. Under the 'Support' heading click on the link to download the latest Adobe Acrobat version.

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