We the People Champions for MD District 6
Boonsboro 2021 District 6 We the People champs!
Constitution Day Event for MD Educators and Students
Sponsored by Historic Annapolis, join us virtually from 9:30-10:15 for a presentation: “The U.S. Constitution: What the Framers Achieved and the Task for Future Generations.”
Seizing Constitutional Moments
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 […]
American History and Civics Academies for Teachers and Students
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 […]
MDCCHE Proudly Supports Educating for American Democracy!
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 […]
2020 Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year
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 […]
A True Test of Citizenship
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 […]
