Transform your social studies instruction with engaging and interactive strategies that bring history, geography, economics, and civics to life. Our professional development sessions provide educators with innovative tools to foster critical thinking and global awareness, helping students connect with their world and understand diverse perspectives. Enhance your teaching and inspire a passion for social studies in every learner.
Bringing History to Life
Studying primary sources breathes life into the pages of history and engages students in the inquiry process. With primary sources, history changes from a textbook study of events to a more intimate focus on the humans who participated in that history. Primary sources add a real-life element to history as history becomes a series of stories about real people who had families, jobs, and dreams.
In this session, learners will:
Inquiry-Based Learning
Inquiry is the shift from “studying” to “doing” social studies. Engage students in inquiry practices, triggering their curiosity and boosting creative thinking skills.
In this session, learners will:
Civic Education
Engage students in critical thinking, thoughtful discussions, and engaging activities that will guide them to becoming active, civic-minded members of society while also building key literacy skills.
In this session, learners will:
Studying primary sources breathes life into the pages of history and engages students in the inquiry process. With primary sources, history changes from a textbook study of events to a more intimate focus on the humans who participated in that history. Primary sources add a real-life element to history as history becomes a series of stories about real people who had families, jobs, and dreams.
In this session, learners will:
Inquiry is the shift from “studying” to “doing” social studies. Engage students in inquiry practices, triggering their curiosity and boosting creative thinking skills.
In this session, learners will:
Engage students in critical thinking, thoughtful discussions, and engaging activities that will guide them to becoming active, civic-minded members of society while also building key literacy skills.
In this session, learners will:
Da Vinci Schools
Marc Pioch has served in the education field for the past 25 years. Most recently, Marc worked with Da Vinci Schools in El Segundo, California where he was a founding teacher, assistant principal and then principal for Da Vinci Connect. He helped design, create, and then build the school, which is one of five schools in the Da Vinci family. Prior to Da Vinci, Marc was also a high school social studies teacher as well as ELD coordinator and curriculum coordinator and coach. Marc has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC) where he taught social studies methods. Additionally, Marc was an editor and contributing author for various Shell Education titles including the second edition of Teaching Social Studies Today and Document-Based Assessment Activities. Currently, Marc is an Academic Officer for TCM, where he provides professional development and training on TCM curriculum materials and Shell Education professional resources for school districts, teachers, and educational trainers across the content areas and grade levels.
