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Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

June 2, 2013 by tchistorygal

Extreme bad times give birth to silver linings. Disasters and tragedy can bring out the best in people. Right now we think of those in Oklahoma who are suffering with the ugly effects of tornadoes. They need to see beyond their present circumstances and know that there will be a silver lining, or they might give up hope. It makes those of us who are not touched by those tragedies to give gratefully to help those in need. People in […]

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Categories: Daily Prompt, Events, Experience, WP Weekly Photo Challenge, Writing • Tags: Dust Bowl, harelip, Holocaust, Marsha Lee, Oklahoma City Bomber, Oklahoma tornadoes, silver linings, WP Writing Prompt

Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

April 13, 2013 by tchistorygal

Can you believe that I could get somewhere – anywhere at 6:15 a.m.?Good, that means you know me pretty well. I got there at 6:25 a.m., complete with camera, but my disk had no space AND no pictures. What’s up with that? I learned how to format my disk today because of it. Needless to say, I was a little late to my assigned post, but I got there. It turned out that many people came to help, so I […]

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Categories: Events, Experience, Tulare County, Woodlake Kiwanis

Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

April 12, 2013 by tchistorygal

Want more hope? Today I got a major shot of hope when I interviewed seniors from Woodlake High School about the portfolios they do as a graduation requirement. I should have illegally taken pictures of them as I was grading them this week, but rats, I just now thought of it. Meeting these students in person brightened my day today. Students begin working on the portfolios long before they have the interview. They start their freshman year collecting evidence of […]

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Categories: Education, Events, Experience • Tags: future, portfolio exit interviews, Woodlake High School

Wicked Weekend in Oz for History Gals

March 19, 2013 by tchistorygal

Some people got to family reunions. Some go to class reunions? Other people meet in different ways and click, and then start to do things together in a group. Do you travel with a group of people? Do you plan for months and all look forward for weeks and even months for just a few short days or hours together? Before this group of women came into my life, I never had this experience with more than another couple. I […]

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Categories: California, Events, Photography, restaurants, Travel • Tags: fun with friends, History Gals, Oz, South Coast Plaza, the Great and Powerful, Wicked, Wizard of Oz

Joy Soares dressed in 1940s style including a black line drawn up her leg. Styling, Joy!

National History Day – California – Tulare County a Huge Success

March 14, 2013 by tchistorygal

This was my first year in the past twelve years NOT to coordinate Tulare County’s History Day event. The job now falls on my dear friend, Joy Soares, who took my place as the History Consultant at the County Office. She has enough energy and ideas for three people, and indeed more than three people kept very busy bringing this exciting day to fruition. My job in all of this was to represent two volunteer organizations, San Joaquin Valley Council […]

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Categories: Common Core, Education, Events, history-social science, Quilting, SJVCSS, TCHS • Tags: Japanese Internment, Joy Soares, NHD-CA, San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies, SJVCSS, TCHS, Tulare County Historical Society, Tulare County History Day, valleysocialstudies

John Muir Visits the Tulare County Historical Society During the 2013 Annual Meeting

January 28, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yesterday at the Tulare County Historical Society Annual Meeting Frank Helling, a 30-year veteran as John Muir, with his hand carved cane in his Scottish accent told the crowd “Everywhere we step is holy land.” Of course he never hiked around the world, he “san-tared” (sauntered) about because hiking is too much like work. At one point Muir had to find employment. Although he wasn’t a shepherd, he was hired to keep tabs on Shepherd Billy, a lazy bloke. […]

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Categories: Events, history-social science, museum, TCHS, Tulare County • Tags: Exeter Museum, Frank Helling, John Muir, Marsha Lee, TCHS, Tulare County Historical Society Annual Meeting

Cats

January 18, 2013 by tchistorygal

I’ve been running you all over Running P Ranch, but I saved the best for last, the cats. You already met Margaret Sanger in the first post. Margaret followed us everywhere. Not a single person commented on the human Margaret’s contribution to history, so I thought you should know what a rich background from which these cats derived their names. Margaret Sanger died before I was old enough to be sexually active, but she changed the world of sex for […]

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Categories: animals, California, Events, Experience, history-social science, pets, Photography, Tulare County • Tags: cats, history, Margaret Sanger, Marsha Lee, photography, Rosa Parks, Running P Ranch, Sacagawea

Travel Theme: Circles

December 10, 2012 by tchistorygal

Definition: A circle is the locus of all points equidistant from a central point. Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack, dreamed up a theme that made my mind go in circles trying to think of when I have ever photographed circles. But sure enough, when I looked through my pictures, I found circles had snuck into my collection unwittingly. Members of the California Council for Social Studies checked out the hotel in Burlingame where we will hold our annual conference in March, 2013. […]

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Categories: art, CCSS, Education, Events, Organizations, Photography, Travel • Tags: circles, Marsha Lee, patterns, Photo Challenge: Circles, psychology of circles, Travel Theme: Circles

Putting Your Field Trips on Steroids – Legally!

August 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

One of the best experiences of my teaching career was the Teacher Institute in Colonial Williamsburg. I wanted to bottle it up and bring it home, and recreate and refashion it so that we could produce similar experiences for people on the West Coast. Organizers packed the week with themes of experiences, most of them reproducible except for the location. Before we arrived we had to read a couple of books about Colonial Williamsburg, and the PEOPLE who lived […]

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Categories: Education, Events, Experience, Travel • Tags: Colonial Williamsburg, Education, Field trip, history, Holocaust, instructional strategies for history, readers' theater, Student, teacher

Mission Inn, Riverside, California

July 28, 2012 by tchistorygal

Romantic, historic, and definitely NOT obstreperous – even with 1,000 fourth through twelfth grade students and their parents and teachers meandering through the labyrinth corridors. May was definitely the right month to stay here. The weather was a perfect 80 degrees. We were Walking in Sunshine, and it felt GOOD! You may wonder how come everything was calm and quiet with hundreds of students going in and out the buildings. The fact was that these students, far from being obstreperous, were […]

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Categories: California, Events, history-social science, hotel, Travel • Tags: California, Education, ideal location, NHD-CA, Riverside

Mikuni’s

June 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

This is the place to go, the Davis Commons, a little mall that used to have a Borders. Now you can find lots of little eating places with plenty of tables outside to enjoy the scenery – which is mostly college kids. It’s a short walk under the bridge on the bike path from the University Park Inn and Suites hotel in Davis. I’m not sure if it is a safe place for big-footed angels, but it was great […]

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Categories: California, Davis, Events, restaurants, Travel • Tags: Davis, Davis Commons, eat, Japanese, Mikuni, photography, restaurant, sushi

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Opposition to Free Speech

June 26, 2012 by tchistorygal

This was the first day of the Tulare County Teaching American History Institute. A big shout out to California History Project Director, Nancy McTygue, and her sons for preparing lunch. It was an absolutely perfect 75 degree day in Davis, California. Nancy McTygue introduces our guest lecturer. Participants learned about the differing world views between the Federalist Party and the Jeffersonian Republican Party, and their stands on Free Speech. These are my notes from the lecture. Dr. Alan Taylor […]

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Categories: Education, Events, history-social science • Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Alien Sedition Act, Bill of Rights, Congress, election of 1796, Federalist, founding fathers, French Revolution, George Washington, Irish, John Adams, Kentucky, Matthew Lyon, Republic, secede, Sedition Act, Simpsons, Thomas Jefferson, united-state, Vermont, Virginia, Whiskey Rebellion

Tulare County Historical Society Meeting

June 2, 2012 by tchistorygal

A year and a half ago I was asked to become the Recording Secretary of the Tulare County Historical Society. I thought to myself, “No sweat, I am the meeting queen. I am Minutes R Us.” Was I ever wrong. It has turned out to be a new challenge that I am just feeling comfortable doing – even though the errors haven’t totally stopped! We meet in interesting places, discuss important business, and best of all keep history alive for […]

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Categories: California, Events, Experience, Organizations, TCHS, Tulare County • Tags: Brent Gill, California, meeting, Mooney Grove Park, National History Day, photography, San Joaquin Valley, Tulare County, Tulare County California, Tulare County Historical Society, United States

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Yes, we relied heavily on our maps, my geographic friends. Only now we had the real space in our brains to go with the map.

2013 CCSS Social Studies on the March in Burlingame

June 1, 2012 by tchistorygal

A good friend once told me that understanding the Civil War starts with understanding the geography. I found out that the same thing is true of planning a conference. You can’t plan for 500 extra conference attendees if your rooms can only seat 600. The CCSS Planning Committee arrived at the Hyatt knowing that we had 10 rooms, but we didn’t know how they would be laid out or how many people could fit in the space. We just […]

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Categories: California, CCSS, Events, hotel, Organizations, Travel • Tags: California Council for the Social Studies, CCSS, Hyatt

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TodaysMeet

May 16, 2012 by tchistorygal

On May 11 I wrote a blog comparing the use of Twitter and TodaysMeet during a day of professional development day with teachers. My colleague and I chose to use TodaysMeet instead of Twitter for several reasons. We were quite pleased with how it worked to answer questions during the day. It integrated seamlessly into our training. First, unlike Twitter, it was so easy for everybody to begin using TodaysMeet. There was no signing up. I accessed the TodaysMeet.com site […]

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Categories: Events, Resources • Tags: Common Core Standards, Education, K through 12, Student, teacher, TodaysMeet, Twitter, Whiteboard

Barrister’s Banquet

May 4, 2012 by tchistorygal

In his keynote speech, Paul Hurley noted that fewer and fewer people join in community events. They can get everything from their home including their social lives. This was not the case this evening. The Tulare County Bar Association had their own Academy Award’s Banquet, the Barrister’s Banquet. Among those who were asked to speak was Robert Dempsie, who “wrangles” judges and attorneys to coach, score and judge for the Tulare County Mock Trial Program. Robert couldn’t […]

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Categories: Events • Tags: Barrister Awards, Mock Trial, Tulare County Bar Association, Tulare County Office of Education, Tulare Union High School

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Mr. Vidak listens graciously to compliments about his involvement in history-social studies.

SJVCSS Awards Banquet

April 25, 2012 by tchistorygal

The Banquet started at 6:00 p.m. Language Arts Consultant, Charlene Stringham, told her husband, “I’ll be home by 7:00 or 7:30 at the latest. How long can it take to give away a few little History-Social Studies awards?” When she looked at her watch at 9:00, she was shocked. ”It was so much fun.” As guests arrived, Dr. Solis serenaded us with continual saxophone music for at least a half hour. We whistled while we worked setting up, and everyone […]

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Categories: California, Events, Organizations, SJVCSS • Tags: AIHE, American institute for History Education, California Council for the Social Studies, California State University, CCSS, Ed Boersma, Fresno, Netherlands under Nazi Regime, San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies, SJVCSS, Triangle Shirtwaist Tragedy, Tulare County Office of Education

Common Core/History-Social Studies Presentation

April 15, 2012 by tchistorygal

The Six Shifts in the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts impact all subject areas K-12: an increase in reading non-fiction texts content area literacy increased text complexity focus on text-based questions focus on writing arguments academic vocabulary Saturday, April 14th Mary Janzen, Fresno County Office of Education, Dr. Melissa Jordine, California State University, Fresno, and Marsha Ingrao, Tulare County Office of Education, all members of San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies, formed a successful tag team […]

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Categories: Common Core, Events • Tags: California State University, Common Core Standards, Fresno, Fresno County Office of Education, Fresno Pacific University, Six Shifts, Tulare County Office of Education

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Category Archives: Events

Daily Prompt: Silver Linings

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Kiwanis Roundup for Hunger

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Need Faith In the Future? Interview Today’s Students

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Wicked Weekend in Oz for History Gals

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Travel Theme: Circles

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Putting Your Field Trips on Steroids – Legally!

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Mikuni’s

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Tulare County Historical Society Meeting

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TodaysMeet

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Barrister’s Banquet

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Common Core/History-Social Studies Presentation

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