C-SPAN will be offering its Teacher Fellowship Program virtually this summer. We are interested in finding middle and high school educators to work remotely with the C-SPAN Education Team to develop new and innovative ways of incorporating C-SPAN content into classrooms. C-SPAN will select up to 5 fellows. Each fellow will:
-Work remotely with the team from July 5 – July 30 to create new educational resources
-Develop content using C-SPAN programs that will be hosted on the C-SPAN Classroom or StudentCam websites
-Participate in C-SPAN’s Virtual Summer Educators’ Conferences (Dates to be determined.)
-Receive a stipend of $1,000 for their time, work, and participation in the program
Please complete the application and submit your resume to educate@c-span.org by Friday, May 7, 2021. Finalists will be notified by May 21, 2021, and will be asked to submit a one-page outline of a project they would like to develop and participate in a Zoom interview with C-SPAN’s Education team. Fellowship recipients will be notified by June 4, 2021. Read More ⟶
Apply for the Civic Conversations Virtual Summer Institute
In community with other educators and expert non-profit partners, explore how community dialogue can be applied to civic issues in multidisciplinary classroom settings. In six half-day sessions with one-on-one coaching and support, you’ll develop a dialogue-based lesson plan for use in your classroom, learn how to create conditions for productive and community-building dialogue, practice your Read More ⟶
Apply for Bill of Rights Institute’s Teacher Council
Are you interested in expanding your impact in the history and civics community? Do you love your work as a history and civics educator and want to share your experience to greater influence the national dialogue? Are you interested in cultivating a community of master educators in the field? The Bill of Rights Institute is Read More ⟶
Sign Up for Leadership Summit on Civic Education
We the People: A Leadership Summit on Civic Education is a webinar on the present and future of civic education with speakers from leading civic education organizations. Speakers from iCivics, the Constitutional Rights Foundation, Facing History and Ourselves, the National Constitution Center, the Bill of Rights Institute, and Generation Citizen will explore the challenges facing Read More ⟶
Enter Civics 101 Podcast’s Student Contest
The theme of this year’s Student Contest from Civics 101 Podcast is “There Ought to Be a Law.” We want K-12 students across the country to record a short, 1-2 minute clip, audio or video (you can just take a video or voice memo on your phone!) and use the following prompts: Tell us your Read More ⟶
New SCOTUS in the Classroom Case Announced
Street Law is excited to announce its Spring SCOTUS in the Classroom case: Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L. This high-interest case deals with the application of the 1969 decision in Tinker v. Des Moines to off-campus student speech and social media. The case presents an opportunity to teach about the limits of free speech Read More ⟶
Apply for Mount Vernon’s Teacher Fellowships
Help Mount Vernon create timely and needed civic learning resources for classrooms nationwide as part of a cohort of five Teacher Fellows this summer. Fellows will work together, with Mount Vernon staff, to design a slate of inclusive resources for multiple grade levels and differentiated learning styles. Successful applicants will demonstrate their achievement in collaborative curriculum development and provide their ideas about activities that integrate George Washington’s biography, leadership, and complex legacies for today’s classroom. Fellows are each awarded a $3000 stipend and round-trip travel to and from Mount Vernon in July. Housing and breakfast will be provided. Deadline is March 22. Go here to learn more. Read More ⟶
’60-Second Civics’ Podcast Focuses on Women’s History
March is Women’s History Month! All month, “60-Second Civics’ from the Center for Civic Education will explain the struggle for equal rights for women and how our Constitution and laws evolved to make our nation a more representative democracy. Listen and then take the Daily Civics Quiz. Go here. Read More ⟶
Sign Up for Student Speech Webinar Series
Street Law is excited to announce a four-part webinar series on Tinker v. Des Moines and Mahanoy Area School District v. BL. The series includes both teacher- and student-facing webinars, and will feature guest speaker Mary Beth Tinker. The webinar series will launch March 10 and continue on March 17, March 24 and March 31. Go here to register. Read More ⟶
Register for the 2021 Share My Lesson Virtual Conference
Registration is open for Share My Lesson’s 2021 Virtual Conference on March 23-25. Access more than 40 free, for-credit webinars that you can enjoy from the comfort of your home. Last year, our virtual conference came at just the right time as pre-K-12 teachers, school staff and parents were looking for support on how best to navigate online learning. This year, we have another remarkable lineup of webinars, including how best to reopen schools safely, support social and emotional recovery and learning recovery, strengthen a foundation of anti-bias education, increase civic engagement and incorporate trauma-sensitive practices. If you can’t make a webinar time, register anyway! We’ll automatically email you the on-demand link as soon as it’s available. The on-demand versions will be available in closed captioning in English and Spanish. Go here to register. Read More ⟶