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ABOUT THE LONG ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES
MEMBERSHIP:

Membership is open to social studies professionals at the elementary, middle, high school, college, and university levels in public and nonpublic schools and other educational institutions who live or work in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

Founded in the early 1950’s, the Long Island Council for the Social Studies is one of the ten largest social studies professional associations in the United States among over one hundred state and local social studies councils nationwide. LICSS is affiliated with the National Council for the Social Studies, as well as the New York State Council for the Social Studies.

Why Join LICSS?

Our Goals

  1. To promote an understanding of the social studies and the more effective teaching of social studies at all educational levels.
  2. To maintain high professional standards and provide opportunities for professional growth.
  3. To protect the academic rights for the profession.
  4. To articulate informed views on issues of interest and concern to social studies educators.
Who we are:
LICSS Executive Board

CO-PRESIDENT
Gloria Sesso
Patchogue-Medford UFSD
241 South Ocean Avenue Patchogue,
New York 11772 (631) 687-6410 (W)
gloriasesso@yahoo.com

 

  

CO-PRESIDENT
Brian Dowd
Massapequa UFSD
41 Highwater Avenue
Massapequa, NY 11758
(516) 308 -5971
bdowd@licss.org.

 
VICE PRESIDENT
Charles Backfish
Stony Brook University
403 Brook Road
Port Jefferson, NY 11777 cbackfish@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

VICE PRESIDENT
Robert Flinn
St. Joseph's College
12 Grand Place
East Northport, N.Y. 11731
bflinn@licss.org

 

RECORDING SECRETARY
Sheila Vaswani
Babylon UFSD
1321 Illinois Avenue
Bayshore, NY 11706
SVGlobal@aol.com

TREASURER
Dr. Henry Kiernan
Bellmore-Merrick School District 1260 Meadowbrook Road
North Merrick, N.Y. 11566 hkiernan@bmchsd.k12.ny.us

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation." -Tom Stoppard


CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Barbara Bernard
Hofstra University
13 Tusculum Road
Commack, NY 11725
Babernard13@yahoo.com

PAST PRESIDENT
Stuart Rubin
3415 Frederick Street
Oceanside, NY 11572 SRUBIN15@optonline.net

PAST PRESIDENT
Jonie Kipling
Hofstra University
6 High Gate Court
Smithtown, NY 11787
kiplingj@licss.org

EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

Merle Chang

William F. Hennessy

Donald Kazmark
Sachem Central School District

Micheal Saccullo
Sachem Central School District
Kevin Spelman
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941)
Steven Shultz
Rocky Point Central School District

Catherine Votino
Longwood Central School District

Jeannette Balantic
Garden City High School
Dorothy Wohl

Who Belongs to the Long Island Council for the Social Studies?

The 1300 members of the Long Island Council for the Social Studies work in one of the:
  1. 56 Nassau County public schools districts from Farmingdale to Valley Stream
  2. 144 Nassau County nonpublic schools
  3. 71 Suffolk County school districts from Fisher’s Island to Half Hollow Hills
  4. 97 Suffolk County nonpublic schools
  5. New York City schools and live in Nassau or Suffolk Counties
  6. Colleges or universities on Long Island
  7. Museums or other educational institutions on Long Island
  8. Other counties in New York, usually, Westchester or Rockland
  9. Educational sales positions that provide teaching materials to Long Island schools
Publications:

Chairperson of Publications & Editor:
Gloria Sesso, Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District


The Long Island Council for the Social Studies publishes: The Advocate :
a newsletter distributed to members five times each year, and The Long Island Hurricane : our journal, distributed to members once a year.
The Advocate
The Long Island Hurricane

The Advocate provides the latest information about:

• actions in the State Education Department that affect social studies teaching on Long Island

• workshops, seminars, and other professional development opportunities offered by LICSS

• lesson plans and other teaching strategies for use in K-12 social studies classrooms

• positions advocated by LICSS in support of social studies education

• the LICSS annual conference, now in its twenty third year

• social studies education on Long Island

• teaching resources

• LICSS awards
• The Long Island Hurricane is the only refereed journal published by a local social studies council.
• The Hurricane contains scholarly articles as well as practical classro om strategies.
• The Hurricane includes contributions from prominent historians, authors, classroom teachers, students.
• The Hurricane has contained articles by Eric Foner (Columbia University), Gary B. Nash (UCLA), Henry Mayer ( University of Pennsylvania), Kenneth Jackson (Columbia University), Matthew Frye Jacobsen (Yale University), Barbara Clarke Smith (Smithsonian Institution), Janet Abu-Lughod (New School for Social Research) Frederick Drake (Illinois State University), John Buchanan (author), teachers from North Shore schools and East Quogue schools and students from Half Hollow Hills, Manhasset, Oceanside, and Port Washington.
Write to the editor:
To provide feedback to an article in The Advocate and/or The Long Island Hurricane:
  1. Address comments to Gloria Sesso, Editor and Chairperson of Publications
  2. Include your name and school or home address
  3. State the name of the publication (The Advocate or The Long Island Hurricane) as well as the article you are writing about.
  4. LICSS will not reply to any anonymous feedback.
To submit an article:
To submit an article to
The Long Island Hurricane:
  • We prefer that manuscripts do not exceed 1500 words. We also accept short pieces of 100-500 words.
  • Your contribution should be typed, double-spaced, and saved on a PC floppy disk as a text file.
  • Cover Sheet information should include article title, names of author(s), academic titles, addresses and institutional affiliations, phone and fax numbers.
  • Upon acceptance of a manuscript, authors will receive information about sending a disk.
  • The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993, should be used as a style reference in preparing contributions that require documentation.

    You can contact the
    publications editor here!

    or write to:
    Gloria Sesso: Editor
    LICSS
    Box 98
    Merrick, NY 11566
Contact Information : LICSS wants to hear from its members!
If you have comments, suggestions, questions, please:
  • Include your name and school or home address.
  • LICSS will not reply to any anonymous feedback.


    LICSS Mailing Address:


    LICSS
    PO Box 98
    Merrick, NY 11566

If you have a comment, suggestion, question for the
LICSS President and Co-President
please email here:
Gloria Sesso: president@licss.org
Jonie Kipling: jkipling@licss.org

If you want to write a letter to the Editor, ask questions, make suggestions, submit a manuscript to The Hurricane or The Advocate, you can reach the Publications Editor, Gloria Sesso,
by emailing editor@licss.org
Publishers may contact the
LICSS Liasion to Publishers, Brian Dowd
by emailing bdowd@licss.org

If you want information about LICSS membership, conference, or other programs, contact the
LICSS Vice President, Robert Flinn,
by emailing bflinn@licss.org
If you have suggestions for additional web links, images, and information, or if you have technical questions or suggestions regarding our web site please contact the LICSS webmaster, Donald Kazmark
by emailing here: webmaster@licss.org



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LICSS P.O. Box 98 Merrick, NY 11566