professional organization

The South Carolina Geographic Alliance is a group of educators ranging from kindergarten to seniors in high school and geographers from multiple universities that use geography to improve the education of young minds. Their primary goal is to bring the concepts and methodology of modern geography to the K-12 classroom by providing high-quality, low cost, professional development opportunities and materials for South Carolina educators. The SC Geographic Alliance provides geography and Social Studies standards-based professional development, in-service and pre-service technology and hands-on teaching strategy demonstrations, GEOFESTs, alliance summer geography institutes, high-quality print and multimedia teaching materials, college level pre-service courses in geography, website with lesson plans and resource library information, and cooperation with institutions of higher education who offer little or no pre-service geography. I think I would join this alliance because it is a very interesting concept that is overlooked in education. Geography really does affect history and people everyday, yet it is consistently overlooked; therefore I would join this group.  Geography does affect everything in a society, from cultures, to economy, or anything you can think of, and it is important to be used and emphasized and deeply thought about in the classroom.