Press Release | March 3, 2025 | Subscribe  

ASC attend’s the Middle States Council for the Social Studies (MSCSS) Conference, Lancaster, PA on Feb 28 – March 1, 2025.

Social Studies teachers at the MSCSS Conference luncheon.

American Sikh Council (ASC) representative Kavneet Singh organized and set up a Sikh exhibit at the Middle States Council for the Social Studies (Teachers) Conference (MSCSS) which was held at the Doubletree Hotel, Lancaster, PA for two full days, from February 28 - March 1, 2025.

Over 250 teachers, specialists, experts, educators and professors from the middle school, high school and beyond attended this conference. There were over 45 exhibitors and dozens of educational sessions covering, native American issues, US history, gender studies, bullying, racism, bias, social justice, genocide studies and much more.

ASC representative Kavneet Singh interacted with the conference attendees by having conversations and answering many questions posed by the teachers and educators. Several brochures and books covering, History of Sikh Americans, The Sikh Turban, Sikhs and Scouts, Sikhs in the World Wars, the Sustained Sikh Genocide, Another Aspect of the Gadar Movement – The Struggle for American Citizenship and Property Rights, Sikh Gadhar Lehar 1907-1918, Bullying of Sikh American Children, were displayed and distributed.

Kavneet Singh with an educator at the MSCSS conference.

Academic books about the Sikh American pioneers and their fight for citizenship and property rights were displayed as teacher resource material.  The other ASC supported book written by Karanveer Singh which was well publicized at the convention was the ‘Bullying of Sikh American Children – Through the Eyes of a Sikh American High School Student’. www.bullyingasikhamericanchildren.org

This book has been specially attested byPresident Barack Obama in 2016 and won the National Bullying Prevention Award in 2018. This book is now in over forty-one school districts across the Eastern seaboard.

Sikh heritage/cultural content in the form of four sets of workbooks were all made available electronically for free dissemination as a teacher resource material from grades 1 – 12.  www.sikhscouts.net

ASC continues to build content for various levels in schools, including material for colleges/universities.

The teachers were really appreciative of the in-depth understanding of the Sikh heritage, which admitted to being completely unaware.

The networking and the outcome of ASC’s collective work continues to be great success, and in order to sustain this ongoing effort, ASC requests all the gurdwaras but especially member gurdwaras to step up and continue their support of these educational initiatives for the sake of all our children and their future.

Kavneet Singh with an attendee at the MSCSS Conference.