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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Strategies for Parents & Teens: Current Events
Explore strategies for reflection, discussion, and more to engage with your children and help them process current events.
Talking About Issues That Matter with Teens: Parent/Caregiver Guide
Get tips for how to support teens in building skills for having productive conversations across different points of view about contentious topics.
Advancing The Common Good in Times of Crisis: A Guide for Parents & Families
Explore this guide for tips on how to help your teen promote the common good even when their lives are impacted by complex global crises.
Civic Agency and the Pursuit of Democracy
This elective, designed for New York’s Seal of Civic Readiness, intertwines the history of US Reconstruction, current events, and civic participation.
From "Noble Savage" to "Wretched Indian"
Examine the differing ideas about Indigenous Peoples conveyed in a painting by George Catlin and an excerpt from Charles Dickens.
De « noble sauvage » à « Indien misérable »
Découvrez les idées divergentes qui existaient sur les Peuples Autochtones, comme en témoigne un tableau de George Catlin et un extrait d’un livre de Charles Dickens.
Working Definition of "Democracy"
This handout includes a four-square vocabulary diagram for the word democracy.
Working Definition of "Democracy" (en español)
This handout includes a four-square vocabulary diagram for the word democracy.
Excerpts from “Board of Education: Chinese Mother Letter”, Daily Alta California, 1885
Mary Tape, a Chinese American who fought in court for her children to go to school with white children, wrote this letter to the San Francisco Board of Education in 1885.