Conference Information
Igniting the Imagination
2012 MCSS Annual Conference
February 24-25, 2012
Capitol Plaza Hotel / Jefferson City, Missouri
The Missouri Council for the Social Studies is on a mission to create effective citizens in Missouri and to celebrate our diversity. Join in our celebration and experience dynamic sessions geared toward early childhood, elementary, middle, secondary, and university educators from a variety of perspectives. Visit with our publishers and educational vendors for great materials and ideas.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Registration 7:00 AM 8:00 AM
Vendor Displays 8:00 AM 4:30 PM
Continental breakfast 7:00-8:00AM
Presidents Welcome in Ballroom 8:00 8:10 AM
Sessions 8:15 AM 11:15 AM
Luncheon w/ Keynote Speaker, Kiel Hileman, 11:30 1:00 PM
Visit with Representative Mike Lair and Capitol Tour 1:00-2:30PM
Sessions 3:00-5:00 PM
Supreme Court Judge Presentation /Install officers 5:30 PM-7:00 PM
Tour of Missouri Supreme Court 7:30-8:30PM
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Registration and Breakfast 7:00 AM 8:00 AM
Vendor Displays 8:00 AM 11:00 AM
Sessions 8:15 AM 11:15 AM
Lunch and Raffle 11:30 AM
Keynote Speakers
Keil Hileman, the Kansas Teacher of The Year in 2004, was named one of four finalists for the 2004 National Teacher of the Year. In addition, he was selected as a NEA Horace Mann Award Winner.
His Classroom Museum was seen by 52 million people as one of three featured live teaching sessions on NBC's 2011 Education Nation Summit. He was most recently inducted into the Mid West Education Hall of Fame and Honored by Dolly Parton as the 2011 National Chasing Rainbows Award Winner. In recent years he was honored by the Daughters of The American Revolution, the 2007 National Outstanding Teacher of American History and a 2008 U.S. Department of Education Teacher Ambassador Fellow. He has a passion for presenting to, evaluating and working with Teaching American History grants all over our nation.
Keil holds a bachelors and masters in Middle and Secondary Social Studies from the University of Kansas and has taught at the middle and secondary level for 18 years in the De Soto Unified School District. He teaches a middle level elective course called Museum Connections and a high school Honors Archeology Course using his classroom artifact collection. His classroom museum contains over 20,000 teaching artifacts.
Keil's classroom credo is "Explore Your World, Empower Yourself and Those Around You, Excel In Everything You Do." Keil also teaches a "Hands On" Archeology class at Johnson County Community College, a "Classroom Museum" Course for teachers at Mid America Nazarene College and a Graduate/Undergraduate "Artifact Supported" History course at U.M.K.C.
Keil lives in De Soto with his wife, Amy, and their three children: Lane Claire (10), Suzanna Caroline (8) and Katherine Aulana (6). You are invited to tour the Classroom Museum. Contact Mr. Hileman at keilh_usd232.org.
Graduate Credit
Keynote Speaker: Representative Mike Lair
Mr. Lair joined Missouri's General Assembly in 2008 after retiring from education. Lair earned a B.S. in History from the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a M.A. in Education from Central Methodist University in 2003. He taught social studies and coached in Nebraska, South Dakota and Missouri for 38 years with the last 21 years in Chillicothe.
As a member of the General Assembly some of his committee appointments include the Joint Committee on Education and the Appropriations Committee on Education.
Mr. Lair, Chilicothe, has served in Missouri's General Assembly since 2008 as a representative of Missouri's 7th District.
