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• Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens: National Academy for Civics and Government

  • Start
    08 Jul 2017
  • End
    29 Jul 2017
  • Location
    Los Angeles

  Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens:  National Academy for Civics and Government 

  
  

  The Center for Civic Education is delighted to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities has made a grant that will allow the Center to offer a three-week NEH Summer Institute in the summer of 2017 entitled Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens: The National Academy for Civics and Government. The Institute will be held in Los Angeles July 8–29, 2017, and the academic director is Will Harris. It will be open to educators from public and private high schools, middle schools, and upper elementary schools. The Institute, through a grant provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will provide 25 Americans and up to five international educators the opportunity to engage in serious study and seminar-style discussion of basic ideas of political theory, the principles of the founding of the Constitution of the United States, and the values of American constitutional democracy. Applications will be available on the Center’s website (civiced.org) in late fall. 

  
  

  For information please contact John Hale at Hale@civiced.org.

  
  

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• Center for Civic Education's NAtional Academy for Civics and Government

  • Start
    08 Jul 2017
  • End
    29 Jul 2017
  • Location
    Los Angeles, CA

  The Center for Civic Education will offer a three-week National Academy for Civics and Government Summer Institute in the summer of 2017 titled Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens: The National Academy for Civics and Government. The Institute will be held in Los Angeles on July 8-29, 2017. It will be open to educators from public and private high schools, middle schools, and upper elementary schools. The Institute, through a grant provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will provide 25 Americans and up to five international educators the opportunity to engage in serious study and seminar-style discussion of basic ideas of political theory, the principles of the founding of the Constitution of the United States, and the values of American constitutional democracy. The director of the Institute is the nationally renowned scholar William Harris of the University of Pennsylvania.

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• 7th Annual ABOTA Teacher's Law School

  • Start
    12 Oct 2017
  • End
    13 Oct 2017
  • Location
    Colorado Supreme Court Building

  The Colorado Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates’ Teachers Law School is an intensive, hands-on learning experience with the best trial lawyers and judges, as well as the Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. This two-day program takes place in the Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center in downtown Denver, and consists of presentations, tours of judges’ chambers, court rooms and courthouses, and a hosted dinner and cocktail reception complete with a mock “jury selection” by some of Colorado’s finest trial attorneys.

   

  Presentation topics include the federal, state and local court systems, the history of the civil jury trial, teacher’s liability, social media in the classroom, and other relevant legal issues unique to teaching civics in middle and high school classrooms. There is no cost to participate, and ABOTA offers substitute teacher stipends to those who qualify. Space is limited. Please contact John R. Rodman at jrodman@jrodlaw.comfor more information on this wonderful program.

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