The cover of WHO BELONGS?, an AAPI Hidden Voices project coming soon from the NYC Department of Education’s Civics for All Comics Group!

The book was drawn by Jeremy Arambulo, colored by Irma Kniivila, lettered by Janice Chiang, and written by Greg Pak. #civicseducation https://gregpak.com/cover-reveal-for-who-belongs-from-the-nyc-doe-civics-for-all-comics-group/

Students’ understanding of history and civics is worsening

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/03/civics-history-education-naep-democracy/

#WashingtonPost #CivicsEducation #HistoryEducation #NAEP #Democracy #EducationCrisis #YouthCivicEngagement #SocialStudies

This makes me thinks back to high school in Grand Rapids, Michigan when my AP US Government class competed in the "We the People" regionals at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in November 1996.

The competition topic was immigration and as it so happened, the Republican Governors Association was meeting in Grand Rapids! As my team was debating another school in the Ford Museum about California's Prop 187, guess who walked up to observe: A very surprised California Gov. Pete Wilson!

#CivicsEducation

Via the Guardian, a look at a new Texas law that restricts “direct communication” between students and their federal, state or local officials in school assignments: "Practically overnight, a growing movement to engage Texas students in real-world civics lessons evaporated."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/01/texas-civics-students-democratic-participation

#CivicsEducation #Education

Louise Dubé, Executive Director of iCivics gave a Tent Talk to BigTent USA last year. Her words are still so meaningful and relevant today. With all the attacks on our freedom of speech—book bans, altering curriculums to whitewash history, we need orgs like iCivics now more than ever so educators can help empower students to be civic agents and give them hope.

Learn more about iCivics’ work and consider supporting them: https://tinyurl.com/SupportCivicsEducation

#icivics #civicseducation #civicengagement

Organized by iCivics, it’s Civic Learning Week and they have gone national!
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor will sit down with teachers and students at a virtual event this Friday, 3/10 at 1pm ET.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/CivicLearningWeekSotomayor

#CivicsEducation #CivicLearningWeek #iCivics

Cool Civics, Voting and News literacy game

https://playverifyit.org/

Thank you to the League of Women Voters Alameda CA for this work

#Civics #CivicsEducation #LWV #leagueofwomenvoters

Teaching my students about presidential policy making today, so I get to be whipsawed back and forth through my memories as students watch clips of various presidents from the recent past (basically, Clinton ➡️) #civics #civicseducation #president

Because one fourth of my audience is not American…I did this myself, need to work on a piece on how congress works. Or at least the theory. It’s not a bad thing. These are the kinds of pieces we need ourselves. #civicseducation