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We adopted the APAL writing model in ALL of our classes and are working on improving our vertical alignment in writing. As a result, we have seen an increase in writing in all classes and growth in analytical writing among our students.

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All of our teams have increased the amount of writing that we are doing in the classroom. Virtually all teams are writing complete essay and some are working vertically to build writing skills year to year.

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West Springfield High School- Brad Swain

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West Springfield High School- Brad Swain

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Our Government Team registered more than 250+ new voters for this year's primary and midterm elections. West Springfield continued its tradition of excellence in the National History Day Program by having 5 student's projects place 1st or 2nd at the state competition and having all 5 go on to the National Competition with one of them getting an honorable mention. Brian Heintz's Applied History program logged a grand total of service hours 2585.5 since the end of January at various historic sites across the DC area.

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According to the students, the highlights of the IB World Religions classes have been the speakers we have had from the community.  They make the religions real, interesting, relevant... and cool!  I'm so appreciative of these men and women who have taken the time to talk to my students about their faith.

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The Online Campus delivered instruction to almost 1000 Social Studies students in 15 different courses taught by 33 FCPS Social Studies teachers.  We partnered with base school teachers from West Springfield, Chantilly, Herndon, Lake Braddock, Westfield, Robinson, Hayfield, Centreville, R. E. Lee, Edison, TJHSST, South Lakes, Madison, Fairfax, Langley, and Woodson. Go Caps!

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Oakton Sophomores piloted an interdisciplinary PBL that included World History, English and Science.  The students were asked to explain an everyday object or event at its atomic level using the SPICE perspectives.

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We piloted a Government Inclusion class that linked USVA Honors students with Category B Government students.  This field trip to the National Portrait Gallery included Art 3 students as well.  Next year we want to include ESOL Government students too.

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IAS has done an amazing job implementing Literacy            Strategies at every site, working toward recognizing and communicating the "why" in our instruction, focusing on the difference between rigor vs. hard in our approach to student instruction and shifting to the use of PBL's.

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IAS has done an amazing job implementing Literacy            Strategies at every site, working toward recognizing and communicating the "why" in our instruction, focusing on the difference between rigor vs. hard in our approach to student instruction and shifting to the use of PBL's.

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Our Government team...
-registered more students to vote than in any previous year.
-expanded resources for student engagement in public service and civics-based school activities.
-refined targeted remediation based on common assessments.
-honed student research skills through blended learning activities.
-introduced the PBL model for culminating assessment.

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The world WH II streamlined our instruction, helping us to surpass our team goals and provide engaging student based instruction.

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My World History II Honors kids really rocked out their Story of Us projects this year. Not only did it allow them to research world history in the context of their families’ experiences but it also gave them perspective and gave me even more inspiration heading into summer and into a new school year this fall😊

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(Dan Cincinnati)
USVA Honors students participated in a New Deal Job Fair PBA. Students worked individually or partnered up to promote and advocate for their New Deal agency.

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Our Government team continued the tradition of visiting Capitol Hill. This year we created a new way for students to share their experiences by having each group make a Padlet based off of a Capitol Hill bingo sheet.

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We had a share fair where CTs shared a lesson they designed with the Engagement Model in mind.
We successfully navigated the new textbooks and teachers shared many new resources based on those books (homework assignments, reading quizzes, etc.).
Students went on a new field trip to the Holocaust museum that enriched the WH2 honors classes.
Our electives were popular enough that we had to add a new teaching position in the department for next year.

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Shifted department meeting this year to resemble more share fairs. Teachers signed up to share technology, literacy, and PBL strategies and/or lessons. It was a great way to get people to share ideas outside of their CTs. It was also a great way for people to start using more technology as we prepare to go 1:1 in 2019-2020.

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This year we got our students out of the building. The World 2 team took over 300 students to the Holocaust Museum. Our National History Honors students piloted a program at Mt. Vernon Estates. Fifty US History students visited the African American History museum. A small group of self-contained students and EL students also visited Mt. Vernon Estates. Mt. Vernon HS also hosted National History Day for another year.

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Stuart SS department with the encouragement and help of our instructional coach, Greg Thomas, formulated and implemented individualized PD peer to peer, deepening our collaboration and improving instruction creating momentum for next year.

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Our Level 1 GOV for ELs students put their U.S. Government knowledge to the test with an Interview project. Thank you to all the wonderful FCHS colleagues who came to be guest interviewers! I wish I could include all the great pictures!

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We went 1:1 for ALL students this year with great success! Social Studies Department used so many great tech teaching tools! Flippity, HyperDocs, Adobe Spark, FlipGrids, Choice Boards, Google Classroom, and so many more!

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152 Madison seniors served as Election Pages and 5 seniors served as Election Officers in last November's elections!

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World Religion/ Current events toured a a Sikh temple, Washington Cathedral, & Russian Orthodox Church in April. The Sikh Temple gave us Gurdwara or lunch.

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Shout out to the members of the PBA cohort who developed some awesome ideas for transitioning our school to a focus on PBA

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(Gretchen Snyder)
We had another great year of NHD, with over 600 students participating and a project competing in the national competition this year!

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This was the 1st year of school in the United States for most of these ELL students. Language acquisition combined with government content was a challenge but these students were resilient. We celebrated with an end of the year party.

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Bryant Social Studies students enjoyed some VR activities this year.

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Bryant Social Studies students enjoyed some VR activities this year.

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At TJHSST a Meeting of the Minds activity for U.S. History was expanded to incorporate characters from outside the U.S. (all time relevant) - it gave students a clearer and broader perspective across the timeline of U.S. history

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Our team at Bryant did an AWESOME JOB helping EL students with a WIDA level of 2 or 3 reach the 375 necessary for them to graduate! It is not and easy benchmark for students with such a low reading level to achieve in USVA History!

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Our team at Bryant did an AWESOME JOB helping EL students with a WIDA level of 2 or 3 reach the 375 necessary for them to graduate! It is not and easy benchmark for students with such a low reading level to achieve in USVA History!

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(Miranda Varner)

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Bryant Teachers experimented with lots of PBA this year and showed off some great student work on our bulletin board.

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Bryant Teachers experimented with lots of PBA this year and showed off some great student work on our bulletin board.

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Bryant High School Government students went to visit the Statute of Liberty, 911 Museum and the US Capitol along with completing current issue projects such as School Shooting, Immigration, and Human Trafficking.

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EL Government at Bryant had two great fields this year - 1 to Arlington National Cemetery and 1 to the Capitol Building.

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EL Government at Bryant had two great fields this year - 1 to Arlington National Cemetery and 1 to the Capitol Building.

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The TJ History Bowl Team won the National Championship and Fred Zhang won the United States History Bee National Championship.

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Literacy strategies were stressed, which allowed my students to interact with History in an in-depth way.

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Cheryl Gannaway - South County High School

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Cheryl Gannaway - South County High School

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The Government Team ran another very successful Model Congress across all the government classes.

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Winners of the High School Voter Registration Challenge