​The Virginia Social Studies Leaders Consortium (VSSLC) is an organization of social studies specialists, college educators, museum professionals, social studies education non-profit professionals, and representatives from the Virginia Department of Education. ​We represent all regions of Virginia. 

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Our Purpose Is:

  • To provide improvement of social studies education in the Commonwealth through the collective efforts of individuals with assigned leadership responsibilities;
  • To promote a free flow of ideas among social studies educators in supervision, curriculum development, teacher education, museum education, and the State Department of Education;
  • To initiate a direct channel of communication among Virginia social studies educators and the National Council for the Social Studies, State Board of Education, legislative bodies, civic agencies, and community leaders;
  • To promote instructional and curriculum improvements in social studies education;
  • To foster a positive image of social studies educators as trained professionals whose primary concern is the best education possible for the students of the state
  • To seek solutions to needs in social studies education.


​Interested in Joining VSSLC?
​​Please contact Virginia Social Studies Leaders Consortium (VSSLC) President, Danyael Graham
​at [email protected] to inquire about the membership process.

Banner image - Joan Johns Cobbs (center), Joy Cabarrus Speakes (center left), and a group of students at the Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia.  Both were Moton Student Strikers and subsequent plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education. Ms. Johns Cobbs is the younger sister of the late Barbara Johns. Photo courtesy of Beau Dickenson.   ​

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