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The plenary sessions addressed a variety of key issues:
Plenary Session 1: Adopting Best Practices:
What, Why, and How?
The purpose of this presentation was to inform the audience of
what we mean by "best practices" and to explore why it is important
to adopt best practices in our work. Additionally, the presentation
examined the primary method for discovering best practices and
their corresponding evaluation measures. Finally, we discussed
the meaning of best practices to the field of law-related education,
including quality programming, better participant outcomes, and
increased leveraging of funds and support. Lessons learned from
the field of law related education were presented by key respondents.
Moderator: Michelle Parrini, ABA Division for Public Education
Presenter: Heather J. Clawson, Caliber
Associates
Respondents: Jeffrey
Cornett, University of Central Florida; Dee Runaas, State
Bar of Wisconsin
Plenary Session 2: The Implication of the
IEA
Civic Study for Law-Related Education
This presentation focused on a recently published comprehensive
study of civic knowledge, attitudes, engagement, and behavior
of 90,000 adolescents in 28 democratic countries. The findings
of the study and their implications for the LRE field were examined.
Moderator: Jennifer Kittlaus, ABA Division for Public Education
Presenter: Judith Torney-Purta, Professor of Human Development,
University
of Maryland at College Park and Co-Director, Developmental
Sciences Specialization
Plenary Session 3: Exploring Challenging Legal
Issues in the Classroom: September 11th and Its Aftermath
How have the events of September 11, 2001 shifted the issues or
otherwise focused public attention on law and national security-related
matters? What are the related legal issues that are especially
important for citizens, especially students, to consider? How
can and should teachers effectively and appropriately address
controversial and complex legal issues, such as those related
to "September 11," in the pre-collegiate classroom? What makes
instruction on the issues that have emerged in relation to September
11 different from previous classroom instruction or controversial
issues? What are best practices for such instruction? What are
the implications for law-related civic education?
Moderator: Gail Leftwich, President, Federation
of State Humanities Councils
Presenters: Suzanne Spaulding, Chair, ABA
Standing Committee on Law And National Security; Diana
Hess, Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies Education,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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