The California History Social Science Project (CHSSP) is a collaborative project between the Department of History at UC - Irvine, the Departments of History several other UC campuses and approximately 2,000 public schools in California. The project seeks to collaboratively create history lessons that align curriculum with the history - social science outcome expectations of the Common Core ELA standards.
Presenters from the CHSSP led two interactive sessions on teaching Common Core skills. The first session focused attention on writing argumentative essays within the history curriculum (the