Polish Perspectives Exhibit
National Conference for the Social Studies
Each year members of the American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC) look forward with great anticipation to the report made by Co-Chair Barbara Lemecha on the Council’s important role in the National Conference for the Social Studies. The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), which organizes these annual conferences, serves as an umbrella organization for a network of over 110 affiliated state, local, and regional councils and associated groups, representing elementary, secondary, college teachers, faculty, curriculum designers and specialists, supervisors, and leaders in the various disciplines that constitute the social studies.
About 5,000 teachers and other individuals from throughout the U.S. attend the conferences and have the opportunity to visit the various exhibits. In her current report, which follows, Mrs. Lemecha eloquently describes the extensive months of planning, preparations, and handling of the exhibit that she and Co-Chair Henrietta Nowakowski undertake each year, as well as the reactions of teachers to the exhibit and the materials freely provided to them at the 88th NCSS Annual Conference in Texas.