CIRCLE Online Seminar - Resources

The APSA Teaching and Learning Conference is a unique meeting in which APSA strives to promote greater understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies for the political science classroom. The conference provides a forum for scholars to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models and to discuss broad themes and values of political science education--especially the scholarship of teaching and learning.

The Purpose of this section is both to promote exemplary undergraduate teaching within the political science discipline and to the scholarship of teaching. The section is especially dedicated to increasing the use of innovative teaching methods, particularly those rooted in experience ( internships, service learning, simulations, and study abroad) and the evaluation of such methods.

The American Library Association ALA Center for Civic Life (CCL) promotes engagement and fosters public deliberation through libraries. Launched in 2010 in conjunction with the Kettering Foundation and the National Issues Forum Institute, the Center is building the capacity of libraries and librarians to help citizens get more engaged in the civic life of their communities.

a history of the League's efforts to increase public participation in the are of natural resource management.

Community planning using a game platform -- has been shown to create more space for young people

detailed info under "Designing the community education and outreach campaign" section

Nonprofits as partners in voter registration and mobilization

There is energy and family engagement happening locally and nationally around public schools, education and equity issues - Citizens for Public Schools

The Poitou-Charentes Region is located in the West of France. It has a population of 1.600.000 inhabitants, which makes it one of the most rural regions in France. In 2005, the executive of the Region Poitou-Charentes implemented the first participatory budgeting at a regional level in Europe.

CIRCLE paper regarding using news media in schools and involving family

National History Day makes history come alive for students by engaging them in the discovery of the historical, cultural and social experiences of the past. Through hands-on experiences and presentations, today's kids are better able to inform the present and shape the future. NHD inspires children through exciting competitions and transforms teaching through project-based curriculum and instruction.

One message sent to 60 million Facebook users on Election Day 2010 got at least 300,000 additional people to vote, according to a study published Wednesday in Nature magazine.

Critical thinking about news media. The American Library Association (ALA) unveils a new campaign to engage librarians, journalists, news ethicists and students across the country in a news literacy education project. The campaign, "News Know-how," is supported by the Open Society Foundations. The two-year project seeks to create partnerships and collaborations for a nonpartisan, critical analysis of news and information. In addition high school students, with public libraries as their "newsroom," will learn how to distinguish facts from opinions; how to check the source and validity of news and information and how to identify propaganda and misinformation.

BYOP began more than ten years ago and was originally known as the Roxbury Church Collaborative. At a time when youth violence was claiming many victims in Boston neighborhoods, a group of pastors wanted to create a space for youth to take positive ownership of their communities. Liz Steinhauser, the group's first organizer, brought together many neighborhood church youth groups to work toward this purpose. The new community won their first victory by re-opening the Melnea Cass Skating Rink! Energized by this victory, the Roxbury Church Collaborative began the move toward more broad issues and successfully extended the time for the Student T-Pass from 6pm to 8pm (in 2009, BYOP succeeded again in a win for our Youth Way on the MBTA campaign, further extending the Student Pass from 8pm to 11pm.)

In addition to voting, there are other ways that parents and families can get involved in advocating on behalf of children and young people

The aim of the Easy Voter Guide project is to make nonpartisan information about why vote, how to vote and what's on the ballot accessible to as many Californians as possible. Founded in 1994, the Easy Voter Guide project is a collaboration of the League of Women Voters of California Education Fund, the California State Library and the Common Knowledge Group.

Here is a CIRCLE Working Paper on the relationship between school and family influence on youth civic engagement.

Nonprofits taking about the common good.f you can talk and listen to another person, you're well qualified to lead this workshop. That's what common good conversations are all about. Since the common good is about creating a world that is beneficial for all living things, we all need to be part of the conversation. "Does Measure X on our state's ballot contribute to the common good?" "How can we advocate for the people our nonprofit serves?" The workshop will help you discuss these questions (and others) in a way that fosters collaboration (not competition, arguments, or discord). Check out the PowerPoints and Trainer Guide for more on leading collaborative conversatio

Database of participatory democractic innovations - This site belongs to you: the global community of democracy researchers, practitioners and interested citizens. Participedia's strategy is simple: crowd-source data on democratic innovations from around the world from contributors like yourself and then aggregate this into an open, public database that continually updates with new contributions. We hope that you will be part of this endeavor, through either contributing content or sharing your analysis of the data found on this site. Please visit our help page to learn how you can contribute to - and benefit from - Participedia's growing collection of resources.

Ethelo is a powerful tool for finding agreement among diverse perspectives Designed to unite groups of all sizes, Ethelo is innovative, social, web-based software that provides a holistic, customizable approach to collective decision making and conflict resolution.