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From Research to Public Voice: Supporting Youth’s Writing for Civic Advocacy
Youth’s research into civic issues that engage their interests and ignite their passions can represent powerful learning experiences. Yet the genre ...
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- Professional Learning
Listening, Leading, and Learning in Community during the 2016 Election
How do teachers invite students to both be themselves and become a community in these times? ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Teaching Debate and Media Literacy in a Polarized Political Climate
In this hangout, participants asked what impact the current political climate, often characterized by its divisiveness, has on teaching debate and me...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Make Cycle #5 Archive: Make a Video Letter with your Phone
The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to make a short video that tells a story about how an election issue...
- Resource Type:
- Make Cycles
Looking Back, Learning Forward: Supporting Project- and Problem-Based Learning with Historical Primary Sources
Historical primary sources can support learning that is grounded in authentic, open-ended problems of today. Join educators for a discussion about tea...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Make a Video Letter with Your Phone
View this conversation about how to use your mobile phone to tell stories and write a video “letter” to the next President. Learn storytelling, p...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Make Cycle #4 Archive: Make a Spoken Word Letter
The fourth summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to channel our inner poet/inner performer to play with spoken word po...
- Resource Type:
- Make Cycles
Make Cycle #3 Archive: Build an Argument
The third summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to embrace the power of argument as a means of supporting civic discou...
- Resource Type:
- Make Cycles
Make Cycle #2 Archive: Make a Visual Impact
The second summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 encouraged us to take a moment and reflect where you are in the midst of all the p...
- Resource Type:
- Make Cycles
Make Cycle #1 Archive: Remix to Speak Back to Media
We kicked off the first summer Make Cycle for Letters to the Next President 2.0 by encouraging us all to remix to speak back to media. Here is archi...
- Resource Type:
- Make Cycles
Hangout: Spoken Word Letters
Spoken word, or oral poetry, can help students critically examine dominant narratives to make sense of their own experience through language and expre...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Webinar: Remix to Speak Back to Media
In the midst of the 2016 US President Election cycle, how can we support the youth we work with in being critical media creators and agents around to...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Political Investigative Journalism: Playing the Watchdog Role
Join host Peter Adams from the News Literacy Project for a conversation with Chicago Sun-Times reporters, Chris Fusco and Tim Novak. Fusco and Novak d...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Supporting Digital Literacy in and out of the Classroom
In this Educator Innovator hangout, representatives from the Berkman Center for ...
- Resource Type:
- Informational
Reflections on National Campaign Coverage: Challenges and Opportunities in the 2016 Presidential Race
Join the News Literacy Project for a special conversation with national political reporters Matea Gold and Abby Phillip from The Washington Post...
- Resource Type:
- Informational
Developing a Global Perspective on Under-Reported Challenges
In this Educator Innovator hangout, participants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Thinking Across Civic Education Work
Watch an Educator Innovator discussion with educators and researchers from Educating for Pa...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Educators’ Experiences Educating for Participatory Politics
In this Educator Innovator hangout, teachers from Los Angeles, Oakland, and Chicago shared�...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning
Letters to the Next President 2.0 Kick-off Webinar
In this hangout, educators described the power of participating in the previous iteration of L2P and highlighted the growing set of opportunities and ...
- Resource Type:
- Professional Learning