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A Few Minutes with Sandra Day O’Connor and other VIPs at the Civic Learning California Summit: Making Democracy Work

March 1, 2013 by tchistorygal

I would be a liar if I said this wasn’t going to be a name-dropping post. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a meeting where there was a more diverse group powerful people assembled in one room, and I’ve been to a few meetings. The purpose of this impressive gathering was to demonstrate solidarity over one issue: the absolute imperative of returning civic education to a more prominent role in public school curriculum K-12. National testing has awakened public […]

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Categories: Experience • Tags: 21st Century policies, California, California Chief Justice Tani G.Cantil-Sakauye, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Civic Education, civic engagement, civic literacy, Dr. Michelle Herczog, Tom Torlakson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

Marsha Lee Not So Famous Go Cart Racer in Greater Sacramento

January 22, 2013 by tchistorygal

Yes, I did. I came in 98.45% of over 2,000,000 go-cart racers in speed!!! I have the paperwork to prove it!!! OK J was 99.96%. Here’s the big difference. He came in #1 in our heat, and I came in …… Here’s a few shots from the sidelines of the track. J raced three times. He’s wearing brown pants, and was #1 all three times. He even got better each time. The flags were very important. Most people know that […]

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Categories: California, cars, Experience, people, Photography, Travel • Tags: California, fun, Go Cart racing, K1Speed Indoor Kart Racing, Marsha Lee, Sacramento

Pike Place Market

November 21, 2012 by tchistorygal

Traveling to conferences often allows attendees the opportunity to explore new places. National Council for the Social Studies moves their conference each year to a different part of the country allowing social studies teachers to learn geography as well as history, civics, economics and all the social studies. In Seattle I ate in some top Diners and Dives restaurants, rode to the top of the Space Needle, got lost in downtown several times, and best of all, went to the […]

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Categories: agriculture, Photography, shopping, Travel, Washington State • Tags: California, farmers' market, food, photography, Pike Place Market, Seattle, social studies, Washington

Palm Desert Art Festival

November 15, 2012 by tchistorygal

Most of the time I don’t actually DO anything. I go places and look at stuff, and I listen to people, and I talk, both verbally and in writing. Since I met y’all I also take pictures so that you can shadow me as I don’t do anything. When the History Ladies (that’s my friends and I) got to Palm Desert, Debbie thought I might enjoy walking through the La Quinta art festival. This is a timely post because if you […]

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Categories: art, California Desert, Experience, Photography, Travel • Tags: Art Under the Umbrellas, California, La Quinta Arts Foundation, Palm Desert, photography, Travel

Teachers Pay Teachers

October 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

Want To Make A Million Dollars? One of the services I do for SJVCSS is Chair the Curriculum Committee. During the last adoption for History-Social Science I was fortunate to be selected to serve as a Reviewer. Although I was unable to perform that role, I was involved at the county level after the adoptions were available to districts. With the coming of the Common Core Standards individual teachers are beginning to search for materials on their own. One of the most logical places […]

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Categories: CCSS, Common Core, Education, history-social science, Organizations, Resources, SJVCSS • Tags: California, CNN, Common Core Standards, credibility, curricula, Education, Educators, history standards, K through 12, Martin Savidge, professional organizations, teacher, teachers pay teachers

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Sunday Post: People

October 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

Ok, this post is for Jake. I hope I will get his dragon posted in correctly so you can see his amazing 3D people. My people are doing similar things, but they are flat, and a wee bit older (or at least some of them are!! – not mentioning any names!) We were at a not-so-boring California Council for the Social Studies Board meeting. Just when things might have gotten dull, our President, Brent Heath, enlivened us with […]

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Categories: CCSS, Photography • Tags: California, California Council, Jake, Jakesprinter, Social science, social studies, sunday post

The Working Retired

September 27, 2012 by tchistorygal

I don’t know how to still be likable, and yet admit to you how spoiled I have been – and still am. I hope you won’t hate me too much. As a county office employee, I attended three yearly statewide meetings, and represented our region of 5 Central Valley counties sharing ideas and bringing back ideas and information from the other 11 regional leads. Since my job hasn’t been filled, I had the privilege of short-term employment to attend the […]

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Categories: California, Experience, hotel, Travel • Tags: California, Embassy Suites Hotel, Hotel, Imperial Highway, Los Angeles

Common Core FAQs Relative to History-Social Studies

September 8, 2012 by tchistorygal

Today our San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies had their big planning meeting. One thing that came out of that was the need for a one page FAQ sheet for the Common Core Standards for Social Studies teachers in particular – to quell their fears of the unknown. This is all I got done this afternoon. See what you think of it, and tell me what else you thing should be on it.KNOWN ASSESSMENT FAQs • Common Core […]

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Categories: Assessment, CCSS, Common Core, Education, history-social science, SJVCSS • Tags: California, California Council, Common Core, Education, National Council for the Social Studies, Primary source, San Joaquin Valley Council for the Social Studies, Seattle, Social science, social studies

The Rest of the Trail Tale

September 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

I did say hoity-toity didn’t I?The beautiful people and their enviable homes are part of the view, but don’t get too close!We didn’t really mind. We can’t use our ultra-ultra close-up lens if you get too cozy anyway. Another of the plants I liked may be a bottle brush plant, but I don’t think so. The flowers look like purple fireworks exploding.And finally, no teacher is worth her salt if she doesn’t talk about schools. We came across a flock […]

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Categories: beach, California, Experience, Photography, Travel • Tags: beach, California, photography, Pismo Beach, Shell Beach

How Committees Work Well

August 26, 2012 by tchistorygal

Social describes the social studies community of California Council for the Social Studies (CCSS). The first CCSS.History-Social Studies people can be controversial and argumentative, or they can cooperate, and accomplish a lot. Usually it’s a little of both.There’s a lot of persuading and synergy going on in California Council for the Social Studies these days.Committees do the work of the organization. They set goals, review the organization’s position statements, gain new information, and network. Their needs, and the needs of […]

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Categories: CCSS, Education, history-social science, Organizations • Tags: California, CCSS, Education, history, Social science

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

A Tall Tale By An Average Size Boy

July 5, 2012 by tchistorygal

Written by: Paula Terrill In Collaboration with Edward Haney Illustrations by: Kara-Lynn Smith My name is Edward. I know what you are thinking, that is a boring and common name. That’s true, but I am not boring or common. I am the most amazing person you will ever meet because my family is famous! Not like movie stars. Better than that. My mom is the best baker in the world. Just for fun, she decided to make a chocolate pudding […]

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Categories: Writing • Tags: Africa, California, Father, Grand Canyon, Grandparent, Mount Vesuvius, United States, Yeti

Ubiquitous

July 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

ACADEMIC VOCABULARY Academic Vocabulary is one of the six major shifts in language arts standards as states are moving to implement the Common Core Standards. Teaching academic vocabulary is going to be ubiquitous. Every content area teacher ia already responsible for teaching vocabulary. All content teachers teach the vocabulary that is unique to their content. Where, but in a history class, would you learn the word Senate? The shift in academic vocabulary instruction due to the implementation of the Common […]

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Categories: academic vocabulary, Common Core, communication, Education, history-social science • Tags: academic vocabulary, California, Common Core Standards, Education, Language arts, Social science, teacher, United States, Vocabulary

Sally pointed the way with her cane to the Old West Room.

Old Sacramento

June 14, 2012 by tchistorygal

I don’t know how a person can turn a fun day into a boring article, but I’ve started this at least three times, and I have succeeded in boring even myself all three times. I could just describe the site of my story, and let you take guesses about where it takes place, but the title was the one good thing I started writing, and I refused to edit it. So I ruined that serendipitous moment. I wanted to tell […]

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Categories: California, Experience, Travel • Tags: Allensworth, California, Costume, Evangeline, Evangeline's Costume Mansion, freedom colony, Front Street, Old Sacramento, Parking, Railroad Fish and Chips, Sacramento California, Tulare County California, United States

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Yard Art Springing into Summer

June 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Some of our yard art automatically changes with the seasons even though California is not as seasonal as Indiana where I grew up. When I started this website, the creek behind our house that is a sandy trail for motor cycles 9 months out of the year had water in it. In April the flowers getting most of the attention in our yard were primarily the wild, California poppies. Bees were busy. Cherry blossoms attracted the bees, too. Trees this […]

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Categories: About, California • Tags: blossoms, California, Cherry, Cherry blossom, cherry blossoms, flowers, fruit, Garden, photography, Plants, Tree

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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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Relaxing After Work

May 24, 2012 by tchistorygal

A technician told me the other day that he didn’t mind driving home 35 minutes from work. When he had lived 2 minutes from work, he always took a drive out into the country to relax before he went home. His story inspired me to take you on a drive with me as I relax on my way home from work. You are seeing rural California at its best. The temperature is a perfect 80 degrees. The air smells […]

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Categories: California, Experience, mountains, plants, Tulare County • Tags: Agriculture, California, country, Drip irrigation, driving, farming, Irrigation, photography, Plant, relaxing, Sierra Nevada, Tree, Water

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Marsha Lee Not So Famous Go Cart Racer in Greater Sacramento

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The Working Retired

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