Professional Development
Monday, July 14 - Wednesday, July 16, 2025

2025 Summer Leadership Institute

Join the National Council for the Social Studies for the 2025 Summer Leadership Institute as we embark on an inspiring journey to empower social studies and aspiring leaders across the nation.

In Flanders Fields

Students will gain historical knowledge through the use of poetry written by soldiers and civilians during and after WWI. Students will read poems and connect the content to the realities of the Great...

Creative Illustrations: Technology of WWI

In this lesson, students will study technology used during WWI through examples described in “All Quiet on the Western Front”. Students will use imagery and words to create a Black-Out poem or Found...
Donate blood
Friday, April 18, 2025 | 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Save a Life: Blood Drive

Doctors and nurses evolved emergency medical practices enormously in WWI – including storing blood for future transfusions. Donate in their honor to support those in need.
Lecture
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 6:30 p.m.

Pershing Lecture Series: Czar Nicholas II as Warlord

In 1915, after nearly one million casualties, Czar Nicholas II took personal command of the army. Explore his unwitting path to the unrest that led to his abdication and revolutionized Russia.
Professional Development
Sunday, April 6, 2025 | Noon-4 p.m.

Teacher Workshop: WWI Medical Technology

Collaborate with peers, interact with real artifacts and walk away with a new ready-to-use lesson at this workshop covering WWI’s impact on the field of medicine. Certificates provided.
Living History
Sunday, April 6, 2025 | 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Day in the Life: Basic Training

From drill to first aid to cooking with what the army gave you, the Living History Volunteers will teach you the lessons that soldiers and civilians needed to know in basic training.

Switchboard Soldiers: Women in WWI

Women at the time of WWI were still fighting for Universal Suffrage (twelve states in the west had given women the right to vote), but when the Great Warbroke out it created opportunities for women.
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