Thank you for attending the sessions either at the virtual National Council for History Education (NCHE) Conference, the Missouri Council for History Education (MOCHE) Conference in St. Louis, or the National Conference for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference in Philadelphia. A copy of the slides can be viewed here or embedded below. If you click on the lower right-hand corner, you may view the slides full-screen.

The handouts and electronic documents featured in the presentation can be downloaded and/or copied below:

1. Trivial Pursuits assignment and collaborative document
2. Secret Messages
3. Death of Mr. Bolos

For my second-ever (and final) "Opening Day" speech (as President of the New Trier Education Association), I chose to focus on the future of public education in light of a national teacher shortage. I used a publishing platform called "Medium" (iOS app available) because of the balance it affords between multimedia and text. See the original slidedeck here or embedded below.



FULL TEXT BELOW: The Future of Public Education

Thank you for attending my NCHE (National Council for History Education) Conference presentation on March 15th, 2019. Below is an embedded version of my slide deck. You can view it full-screen by clicking in the lower right-hand corner of the presentation window.

If you would like access to the shared folder of lesson materials, please click here. Although the permission has been set to "view only", you should be able to download anything in the folder or make a copy of an existing document.

Thank you for attending my NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference presentation on November 18th, 2017. Below is an embedded version of my slide deck. You can view it full-screen by clicking in the lower right-hand corner of the presentation window.

If you would like to access the Google Doc of media literacy principles and the bonus material using Schoolhouse Rock, please click here.

Thanks to everyone who attended our session. I will upload the entire slidedeck as well as links to the apps and websites mentioned.

• Steller
• VoiceThread
• Yogile

Please make sure you contribute a photo to our "Making the Mundane Beautiful" #atwarwiththeobvious social slideshow HERE.

For now, here is the original slidedeck as presented to my American Studies students:

Thank you for attending our session today at the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference in New Orleans. Please feel free to contact either of us:

• Spiro Bolos (Teacher, New Trier High School)
• Tom Kucharski (Instructional Supervisor, Glenbrook South High School)

Below is an unabridged version of our presentation that you can use in the classroom. It includes strategies for talking to students about race, as well as a full array of statistics on mass incarceration.



For classroom materials and embedded links to multimedia, please click on the image below:

Dan Lawler and I participated in a presentation/panel discussion called, "Inclusive Schools and Education Equity" in which the following questions were posed:

1. What does it mean to be a welcoming school district within the constraints of segregated housing patterns? 
2. What can suburban residents do to effect change in a metropolitan system that sanctions separate and unequal educational opportunities? 
3. Does diversity in schools create a net gain for all?

GUEST PANELISTS:

• Dan Lawler and Spiro Bolos, New Trier's Metropolitan Community Project
• Steve Bogira, The Chicago Reader
• Kourtney Cockrell, Student Enrichment Services at Northwestern University

For my "Opening Day" speech (as President of the New Trier Education Association), I chose to focus on the theme of race, and I used a publishing platform called "Medium" (iOS app available) because of the beautiful balance it affords between multimedia and text. See the original slidedeck here.

A Lighthouse

Thank you for participating in today's session. Below is an embedded slideshare of the presentation.

Based on Cariou v. Prince, _ F.3d _ (2d Cir. 2013).

Patrick Cariou published a book of photographs of Rastafarians and landscapes taken in Jamaica. Richard Prince utilized portions of and entire images from Cariou’s photographs in 28 paintings, many of which were shown in the Gagosian Gallery.

Slides are numbered for classroom or workshop: each participant can use the critical reasoning process to make a fair use determination. NOTE: some content may be deemed NSFW. For a detailed analysis, please visit Rebecca Tushnet's "Transformativeness doesn't require commentary on original" as well as Kenneth Crews' analysis of the "Four Factors" at Columbia University (quoted above).


NOTE: click the four expanding arrows on the presentation in order to view full-screen.

UPDATE: the five photos sent back to the lower court were recently the subject of a settlement. Terms were not disclosed.

This presentation was given at the NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Conference in Seattle, WA, and at the CASE (Council on American Studies Education) Conference at the Art Institute in Chicago by Thomas E. Kucharski and Spiro Bolos, both of New Trier High School.

Using US History, Michelle Alexander's recently published book, The New Jim Crow, and 20th century African-American responses to racism, we will examine strategies for our students' social/political engagement with racism.

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Our slides:
 

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Our handout: 
 

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Prison Industrial Complex links and video:

The Prison Industrial Complex from Spiro Bolos on Vimeo.

NOTE: to play the video fullscreen, click on the "expand" icon in the lower right-hand corner of the video box (while playing). If you are using a PC, hit "F11" to minimize the browser. 
 
Downloadable PDF of Zine illustrated and designed by Billy Dee. Music by Loscil.