2007-2008 Social Studies Department News

• Dr. Keith Astuto was awarded Third Place for the Florida Governor's Award For Teaching Economics. Congratulations!
• Ms. Sanchez and Dr. Astuto sponsored a SMSH delegation to the Cuban Missile Crisis simulation exercise at FIU's Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship Studies.
  
• Dr. Keith Astuto of the Social Studies Department was recently honored by the Miami Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta with a third place award in the bank's Lesson Plan of the Year contest. The contest was open to teachers in high schools & middle schools and teachers-in-training in the southern half of the state. Dr. Astuto's entry, "Bankers, Buzzers & Bucks," created a game show in which students learned about the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System and then competed for prizes using the knowledge gained from the lessons.

  (L-R) Vice President and Miami Branch Manager Juan Del Busto, Dr. Astuto, Miami Branch Educational Outreach Specialist Lon Lazzeri.
  

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  Congratulations to Rose Tresvant's Law Studies students and their student coaches for winning the first ever prestigious Florida Law Related Stephan C Shenkman Award at the We the People competition. The award recognizes the school that best demonstrates extraordinary conduct and scholarship and the highest ideas of civic education. Rose Tresvant and the students represented the 18th Congressional District in the "We The People " Competition in Orlando. This is Ms. Tresvant's third trip to this state competition.