CENTER FOR
CIVIC EDUCATION
VOLUME 2
Number 1
April 2009
 
IN THIS ISSUE
Featured Article
Alliance for Representative Democracy Launches Professional Development Initiative
Message from the Center
Center Publishes New We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution High School Text
We the People
Center Commemorates Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial with Lesson and Website

Teachers Receive Professional Development through We the People Institutes

Teachers Participate in Seminar for We the People Initiative for High-Need Students
Project Citizen
Project Citizen Documentary Wins Film Festival Award
We the People Programs
News from the States

Summer Interns Reflect on Experiences

We the People and Project Citizen Coordinators Gather for Annual Training Meeting

We the People Directors and Mentors Attend Conference
Civitas International Programs
Morocco Hosts World Congress on Civic Education

State Superintendent of Schools Receives Prestigious Award

Center Co-sponsors German- American Conference

News from the Sites
Violence Prevention Program
Native American History Featured in Annual Training Institute

SVPDP Wins Compass Award
Campaign to Promote Civic Education
A Call to Support Civic Education
American Civic Education Teacher Awards
Teachers Receive American Civic Education Teacher Awards
Announcements
Center Launches Online Giving with Giveciviced.org


Congress has a demanding task—"to understand the hopes and the dreams and the ambitions and the desires of the American people...and translate that into public policy."
Former Congressman
Lee Hamilton, Director
Center on Congress
at Indiana University
Alliance for Representative Democracy Launches Professional Development Initiative

"It has been a wonderful experience for our organization to host the world congress and share the progress we have made in promoting civic education with civic educators from all over the world. "
Elarbi Imad, President
Moroccan Center
for Civic Education
Morocco Hosts World Congress on Civic Education

"My goal is to develop in my students the civic knowledge, dispositions, virtues, and the intellectual and participatory skills to become reasoned, informed citizens."
Sally Broughton
Monforton School
Bozeman, Montana
Teachers from California, Montana and Kentucky Receive American Civic Education Teacher Awards

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