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21st Century Skills Focus of Project Citizen Conference
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More than 400 civic leaders and educators will meet in Washington, D.C.,
to examine curricular materials and to explore classroom strategies to help
their students develop 21st century skills. During the annual We the People:
Project Citizen conference, program coordinators will hear from business leaders
and classroom experts on how to prepare students to be effective citizens, workers,
and leaders. Keynote speakers Paige Kuni and David Byer, from the Partnership for
21st Century Skills, will speak about "The Need for 21st Century Skills."
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The “Ten Commandments of Citizenship”
The Bay State Banner - Oct 30, 2008
In this editorial, former congressman Lee Hamilton writes that "Only a citizenry that is engaged in our democracy to an extent far greater than in recent decades can help to heal our system." Hamilton outlines ten ways people can be effective citizens, which he calls the "Ten Commandments of Citizenship."
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''We the YOUNG People!''
Northwest Voice
Oct 22, 2008
Northwest Voice editor Dana Martin looks at the lasting impact of We the People: The Citizen and the >>
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''Our Future (Productive) Citizens''
The Queen City Daily/The Morning Call
Oct 21, 2008
Arlene Martinez writes in The Morning Call blog about the Allentown, Pennsylvania, school district winning the prestigious Compass >>
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| Announcements | | New Constitution Day Lessons Available
The Center for Civic Education, in collaboration with the American
Association of School Administrators, is offering four new lesson plans
for Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, September 17. The free,
downloadable lessons are for students in kindergarten and grades 1,
1-2, and 9-12. Eleven proven lesson plans for grades K-12 are available at constitutionday.civiced.org.
These lessons have been
adapted from the Center's We the People: The Citizen
& the Constitution, Foundations of
Democracy, and Law in a Free Society
curricular materials. Audio recordings of selected Constitution Day
lessons are also available.
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| Announcing the We the People Companion Website
The Center for Civic Education proudly announces the launch of the new
We the People companion website at wtpcompanion.civiced.org.
The website is designed to be used alongside the new We the People:
The Citizen & the Constitution
Level 3 text for high school students. Features include an overview of
the student edition, the preface, and the introduction; the full text
of all unit and lesson purposes; terms with definitions; the glossary;
biographies; links to Supreme Court cases; links to the full text of
primary sources; an annotated bibliography; links to specially selected
websites that illuminate concepts mentioned in the student text; and
multimedia.
Additional features are being added frequently, so be sure to visit the
We the People companion website at wtpcompanion.civiced.org
often for the latest dynamic We the People content. If you have any
suggestions about the companion website, please email Mark Gage, the Center's editorial
director.
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| 2008 Portfolio Achievement Level Results
For the 2008 We the People: Project Citizen National Showcase, students prepared four-panel
portfolios and documentation binders chronicling the steps they took to identify and research
a problem in their community, their evaluation of alternative policies, their proposed public
policy, and an action plan formulated to have their policy enacted.
Students' public policy portfolios were selected to represent their states at the national
level. Members of state legislatures, legislative staff, and educators serve as evaluators
for the showcase. Each portfolio was evaluated three times. Achievement level results are
based on the average score of the three rounds of portfolio evaluation during the National
Showcase.
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