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Resources to Help Classrooms Process the 2024 Elections

What does it mean to be an Illinois Democracy School?

ESL Students Exercise Agency with Participatory Budgeting

Participatory Budgeting Takes Different Forms in Middle and High School

Engaging Youth Voice with Participatory Budgeting

Democracy Schools Annual Convening Celebrates Participatory Citizenship

Remember, Reconnect, and Represent

Teaching Inclusive History with the Chicago History Museum – Challenging the Status Quo: Activist Women in Chicago

Sharing our Successes: Members of the DSN

Informed Action Using Survey Data from Illinois Democracy Schools

How can students play a part in educating our voting community on the positions and viewpoints of the school board candidates?

Using SCOTUS Cases to Teach Inclusive History

Taking Action: Participatory Government through Service Learning

Student Voice 360

Reading Like a Historian to Teach Inclusive History

Helping Students Navigate the Public Policy Process

DSN Math Teachers Explore Citizen Math

Does Congress Represent Me? Students Use Simulations to Understand How Congress Works

Illinois Democracy School Celebrates Veterans Day with Service Learning

Civic Equity for Students with Disabilities

Constitutional Democracy Project Law-Related Conference Recap

Illinois Democracy School Takes Inquiry to Informed Action to Encourage Informed, and Equitable Voting

Illinois Democracy School Hosts Candidate Forum to Promote Informed & Equitable Voting

Is Responsiveness to Student Voice Related to Academic Outcomes?

Participate in the Kids Voting Illinois Statewide Mock Election

High Schoolers Use Socratic Seminar to Discuss Equal Justice for All

Sharing our Successes: Members of the DSN

8th Graders Use Philosophical Chairs to Explore the Justice System

Teaching about the SCOTUS Confirmation Hearings

Teaching for Informed and Equitable Voting with CIRCLE and CERG

Digital Well-Being and Citizenship

Schoolwide Committment to Civic Learning

Civics Across the Curriculum: Every Teacher is a Civics Teacher

Strengthening School Climate through Inclusion

Civic Online Reasoning Across the Curriculum

Extracurricular Activities and Civic Learning with Dr. Kelly Siegel-Stechler

Classroom Resources to Teach about War in Ukraine

A Midterm Update on Voting Rights and Election Laws with Dr. Steven D. Schwinn

Middle School Students Deliberate Foreign Policy Using Philosophical Chairs

The Rigor and Relevance of Simulations of Democratic Processes

Civic Learning Across the Disiciplines- The Proven Practice of Service Learning

Exploring the Supreme Court of the United States Nomination Process

Using the Midterms as a Teachable Moment

Inclusive History with Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Resources to Commemorate the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Exploring Revisions to the Illinois Social Science Standards

Civic Engagement Starts Close to Home for Illinois Democracy School

Resources to Address the January 6th Insurrection- One Year Later

6th Graders Conduct Mock Legislative Hearing to Explore the First Amendment

Middle Schoolers Use SCOTUS Precedents to Explore Free Speech

Sophomores Use Philosophical Chairs to Explore, “Should the US continue to use the Electoral College to elect the President?”

PLC Explores Structured Academic Controversy to Support Classroom Deliberations

Educating For Democracy- Opportunities for High-Quality Civic Learning with CERG

Teaching Civics through Conversation in Three Steps

Students Use Moot Courts to Deliberate Vaccine Mandates

Is the Electoral College the BEST way to choose a president? A Current and Controversial Issue Discussion

Designing Discussion as Inquiry

Civic Online Reasoning in Science

Avoiding the Rabbit Hole: Teaching Conspiratorial Thinking without Perpetuating It

The Inclusive Democratic Classroom

Illinois Civics Hub Online Microcredentials Highlighted in Recent Report by CIRCLE at Tufts

Expanding Civic Learning Across the Disciplines for a Healthy Democracy

Resources to Celebrate Constitution Day

Using Constitutional Law to Understand Academic Freedom in the Classroom

Show and Tell: Resources Aligned to the Proven Practices of Civic Education

Constructing Curriculum with Essential Questions- Updated

August is the New January- Back to School Tools to Start the New Year

Classroom Simulations: Do This, Not That

What are the responsibilities and opportunities of citizenship and civic agency in America's Constitutional democracy?

Equipping Students to Take the L.E.A.D. through Service Learning

What values, virtues, and principles can knit together ‘We the People’ of the United States of America?

Dr. Jonathan Cohen Responds to Administrator Questions about Returning to School and School Climate

How school leaders can help educators navigate polarizing times

Do you REALLY want to hang that classroom poster?

Sorting Facts From Fiction- What Districts Can Do to Combat Misinformation in the Current Culture Wars

How Has the Role of the Executive Branch Changed Across our Nation’s History?

Making the Most of Discussion Boards

What different perspectives are there on how our geographic, social, economic, and political landscape changed over time and on the benefits and costs of those changes?

Revisions and Additions to the Illinois Social Science Standards

How can we do better? Making the Case for Civic Online Reasoning

How can we ensure our sources of information about contemporary debates and possibilities are accurate and fair?

Building Better Rubrics for Student Feedback

Using Performance Assessments in Social Studies

What is Constitutional Democracy?

5th Graders Use Service Learning to Advocate Personal Responsibility for Public Spaces

Middle Schoolers Use SCOTUS Case to Reflect on School Rules with Service Learning

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ICH Poolside PD begins with Essential Questions and Institutional Transformation

Victory Gardens Address Food Insecurity through Service Learning

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SCOTUS Free Speech Cases Leads to Informed Action through Service Learning

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Civics and Environmentalism Intersect through Service Learning

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What Role do I Play in Making “a More Perfect Union”?

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Civics In Real Life

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The Underground Railroad Starts a Journey with Service Learning

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A User’s Guide to Democracy from Civics 101

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Civics and the Arts

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Honoring AAPI Heritage: Reflecting on History to Inform Action

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Addressing Hard History with Service Learning

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Strengthening School Climate through Inclusion

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The Educating for American Democracy Roadmap

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Service Learning Connects Revolutionary War to the Present

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Proposed Revisions to Illinois Social Science Standards

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Service Learning Prepares Pre-Service Candidates for Powerful Social Studies

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How Congress Works

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Service Learning to Commemorate Holocaust Rememberence Day

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Digital Well-Being and Citizenship

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Service Learning Connects Students with Local Elections

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Service Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide

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Voting Rights, Election Laws, and the Courts

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Schoolwide Commitment to Civic Learning

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Honoring Women’s History Month with Service Learning

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Lessons Learned from the 2020 Election

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Facilitate Students to take the L.E.A.D. with Service Learning

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A Roadmap for Educating for American Democracy

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Civic Online Reasoning Across the Curriculum

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Impeachment and SCOTUS Update

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Simulations of Democratic Processes: Do This, Not That!

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Making the Most of Discussion Boards

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Reflection to Action: “Choosing to Participate” Across the Curriculum

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The State of the State

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Forever Ours in Civics

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Forever Yours in Civics

Resources to Respond to Tragedy and Violence

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The First 100 Days

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Be a Guardian of Democracy: Strategies for Current and Controversial Issue Discussions

Constructing Curriculum with Essential Questions