This summer I participated in 2 Professional Development opportunities that were truly phenomenal! The first was the Social Studies State Symposium on June 29th. With 18 different sessions for teachers in grades k-12 it was a great learning opportunity. The Maine Council for the Social Studies co-sponsored the event and it was awesome! We had a bunch of vendors and received lots of very positive feedback.
As if that wasn't enough, the trip to Europe to visit 4 American Cemeteries where American soldiers from World War Two are buried was tremendous. We also visited other World War Two sites and had some time to explore some other areas of importance in Europe. We were in Nice the day after the terrorist attack there, so the dangers of travel were not far from our minds. We honored 18 different Fallen Heroes with video eulogies that will be published this Fall. I created blog from my trip which can give more details here:
http://gowertrip16.blogspot.com/
The school year is starting very soon with many exciting projects to come!
