Check the PageSpeed score
PageSpeed score is an essential attribute to your website’s performance. It affects both the user experience and SEO rankings.
You can hide this element from the settings
Checking...
We are checking the PageSpeed score of your Seizing Constitutional Moments page.
You can hide this element from the settings
Listen to MDCCHE’s Donna Phillips talk on Seizing Constitutional Moments in the classroom from the OC for Social Studies. Students come into our classrooms already with an inate sense of constitutionality. Often they proclaim “that’s not fair” in reaction to everyday situations in and out of the classroom. Teachers as civic educators need to seize on these and other constitutional […]
Our schools have a civic mission to develop among our youth a reasoned commitment to the fundamental values and principles of American constitutional democracy. The Center for Civic Education is administering a grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a multi-year series of Presidential Academies for teachers and Congressional Academies for students. In the summer of 2021 both Academies […]
Maryland Council for Civic and History Education (MDCCHE) Announces Support for the Educating for American Democracy Initiative The United States stands at a crossroads of peril and possibility. After years of polarization, our country is highly divided and there has been widespread loss of confidence in, understanding of and appreciation for our form of government and civic order. We must rebuild […]
Congratulations to Matthew Gresick who has been named the 2020 Maryland History Teacher of the Year, an award sponsored by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Created in 2004, the History Teacher of the Year Award highlights the crucial importance of history education by honoring exceptional American history teachers from elementary school through high school. The award honors one […]
Author’s note: What follows is my reflections on the Serial podcast that swept the nation last fall. As you will read, my involvement in the events at Woodlawn High School in 1999 and in the Podcast in 2014 gave me a platform for exploration of some compelling questions about our justice system in general, and my teaching in specific. This […]
A True Test of Citizenship By: Donna Paoletti Phillips From May 2015 There has been a lot of buzz lately about the national movement from the Joe Foss Institute for state legislatures to mandate graduating high school students pass the U.S. citizenship test. Among the standard arguments against such a test are the valuable class time it will take, the […]
It started with the idea that it would be really awesome if students had a day to talk about their rights and teach and learn from each other all day long. All. Day. Long. Could we do it? How could we do it? And when? It was decided, Constitution Day, September 17th was the occasion. Now we needed the vehicle. […]
