CIRCLE Online Seminar - Resources

The Pew Research Center's Hispanic Trends Project, launched in 2001 as the Pew Hispanic Center, seeks to improve public understanding of the diverse Hispanic population in the United States and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the nation. The project conducts public opinion surveys that aim to illuminate Latino views on a range of social matters and public policy issues, including its annual National Survey of Latinos. It also publishes demographic studies and other social science research on a wide range of topics, including economics and personal finances, Hispanic/Latino identity, education, health care, immigration trends, the Latino vote, technology adoption, youth and work and employment. The project is well-known for its estimates of the unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S.

A monograph by the National Resource Center for First Year Experience and Student Transition.

Video panel of teachers and colleagues from the Oakland Unified School District. EDDA = Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age, and we started by asking: "What do you see as the benefits and challenges of bringing civic engagement into the classroom?"

Common Core standards for Social Studies and History and the case for civic education.

APSA is pleased to announce the release of the Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen edited volume compiled by editors Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Elizabeth A. Bennion, and Dick Simpson and with contributions from political scientists leading research on civic engagement within the discipline and related fields. Covering a wide range of critical discussions over 27 chapters, this work is a significant and timely contribution to the study of civic engagement.

Responsive Classroom is a research- and evidence-based approach to elementary education that leads to greater teacher effectiveness, higher student achievement, and improved school climate.

Can social studies classrooms be effective "makers" of citizens if much of what occurs in these classrooms does little to prepare young people to participate in the civic and political life of our democracy? Making Citizens illustrates how social studies can recapture its civic purpose through an approach that incorporates meaningful civic learning into middle and high school classrooms. The book explains why social studies teachers, particularly those working in diverse and urban areas, should infuse civic education into their teaching, and outlines how this can be done effectively.

Check out her work - Hess researches how teachers engage their students in discussions of highly controversial political and constitutional issues, and what impact this approach to civic education has on what young people learn. Her first book on this topic, Controversy in the Classroom:

Community Tools - YogaVotes is a national, nonpartisan campaign to get yogis out to vote in 2012. Awareness, connection, and participation are core elements of yoga on the mat. They happen to be central to our civic life, too, whether that be at the most local level or in this year's presidential campaign. YogaVotes will encourage the 20 million Americans who practice yoga to take their values into the public sphere and into the voting booth. We will use traditional and cutting edge organizing tools to reach, activate, and encourage these folks to go to the polls on election day-especially in key states where our collective voices will have a noticeable impact.

The League of Women Voters' mission is to promote active, informed citizen participation at all levels of government through education and advocacy. Our focus is that our hands-on work will safeguard democracy leading to civic improvement. - After the January 2011 Tucson shootings, we undertook a study of the roots and causes of incivility and gave presentations to community groups.

A grassroots, non-partisan, non-profit organization that is building civility in a society that all too often seems tilted toward uncivil speech and actions.

The Center for Action Civics (CFAC) is the professional development branch of Mikva Challenge and provides teachers, schools, and non-profit organizations with the tools and strategies needed to engage young people in high quality Action Civics programming and experiential learning opportunities, either in a classroom, an after-school club, or as part of a community organization. To learn more about our curricula and professional development opportunities, please click here or on The Center for Action Civics link on the left.

Video of presentation on the Global Philanthropy Forum website with panelits: Amit Bhatia, Founder and Chairman at Aspire José Zaglul, President at EARTH University Jennifer Buffett, President and Co-chair at NoVo Foundation Tsitsi Masiyiwa, Executive Chairperson at Higher Life Foundation Reeta Roy, President and CEO at The MasterCard Foundation - See more at: http://philanthropyforum.org/sessions/the-opportunity-to-connect-learning-to-jobs/#sthash.M9XMQbog.dpuf

Connecting the corporate sectors to schools - PENCIL inspires innovation and improves student achievement by partnering business leaders with public schools. Our programs share a common premise: by bringing together the best ideas, talent and resources across sectors, we can create real change in our schools.

Initiative's and resources put forth by the American Association of Colleges & Universities.

This is one resource around Latino youth and social media:

A good book on a developmental approach to access and success, with a focus on community building How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college-goers? In Ready, Willing, and Able, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne M. Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to master in order to plan for and succeed in higher education. These include identity development, articulating aspirations and expectations, forming and maintaining strong peer and adult relationships, motivation and goal-setting, and self-regulatory skills, such as planning. The authors challenge the predominant approach of giving young people information and leaving it to them to figure out how to apply it. They call for a new approach that integrates the key developmental tasks and processes of adolescence into existing college access practices in meaningful ways. Rather than treating young people as passive recipients of services, the authors argue that adults can engage them as active agents in the construction of their own futures.

Close Up believes that a strong democracy requires active and informed participation by all citizens; therefore they seek to reach participants of every race, creed, geographical community, socio-economic level, and academic standing. To carry out their mission, they partner with educators, schools, and youth organizations throughout the country to help young people develop the skills and attitudes to become informed and engaged citizens. Since 1971, nearly 800,000 participants have participated in Close Up programs.

Robin mentioned knowledge of voting and voter registration law. In the 2012 election, this was a major issue nationally, which came through in our summer 2012 youth poll

Each year, the D.C. Street Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center develops a mock trial for use in the citywide high school mock trial competition. These mock trials are free for use by teachers in their classrooms and/or with their mock trial teams. Additional uses are prohibited. For information on additional uses of these mock trials, contact Allison Hawkins.