CHSSP's seven regional sites are housed in the departments of history and geography at university campuses throughout California. Each year, scholars and teachers from these sites work collaboratively to design, implement, evaluate, and refine professional development programs. In accordance with the California History-Social Science Content Standards, our programs aim to increase teachers' content knowledge and disciplinary understanding, improve teachers' pedagogy, and develop students' academic literacy. On average, the CHSSP network serves more than 2,200 teachers from nearly 900 schools each year.

This collaborative network is dedicated to providing the highest quality history and social science instruction, with a special focus on meeting the needs of English learners (as articulated through the Common Core State Standards), native speakers with low literacy, and students from economically disadvantaged communities. Headquartered at the University of California - Davis, CHSSP belongs to a larger network of discipline-specific programs known as the California Subject Matter Projects, administered by the University of California, Office of the President.

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