Program
Highlights
- Save Our Streets - encouraging young people to examine public policy issues concerning
handguns and explore ways to become part of the solution
- Youth Act! - challenging young people to go a step beyond community service to identify
and change root causes of local problems in their communities
- Teens, Crime and the Community - combining education and action to reduce teen
victimization by crime
- Community Works - young people using community service projects to address teen
victimization in their communities
- Parents and the Law - helping young parents successfully raise their children
- Police as Community Teachers - improving communication and relations between law
enforcement officers and the general public
- We Can Work It Out! - teaching mediation skills so students have a real alternative to
violence
- Youth Vision - challenging young people to resolve conflict, prejudice, and violence in
their communities
- The Supreme Court Institute for DC Teachers - provides District of Columbia teachers
with an in-depth look at the Supreme Court of the United States to help them share the
knowledge with their students and colleagues
- The Supreme Court Summer Institute - inviting teachers from all over the nation and
abroad to Washington, DC for an in-depth look at the Supreme Court of the United States to
help them share the knowledge with their students and colleagues.
- Street Law in High Schools - giving high school students a chance to learn how law
affects their everyday lives.
- Democracy and Civic Education - building democratic societies in the United States and
around the world.
- Diversity Pipeline - providing minority youth with information and access to law-related
careers
- Customized program design and development
- Staff development for professional educators and volunteers
- Instructional and training material
- Cutting edge educational experiences for students
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Product Highlights
- Videotape on the D.C. Court System
- Parents and the Law - innovative two-binder curriculum designed to give young parents
the information they need about their legal rights and responsibilities regarding their
families.
- Police as Community Teachers- lessons designed to allow participants to interact with
local police officers and school resource officers to explore the roles and
responsibilities of both police officers and members of the community.
- Save Our Streets: a Positive Choices Curriculum - designed to help at-risk youth learn
non-violent methods of resolving conflict, and give participants a better understanding of
gun legislation and public policy issues concerning weapons.
- Street Law: Juvenile Court Alternative Program - provides step-by-step lesson plans for
juvenile justice professionals and teachers to provide youth with resiliency skills and
practical legal information.
- Street Law: A Course in Practical law (6th Edition) - uses interactive strategies to
give students the knowledge they need about the laws and legal system that affect their
daily lives. Also has supplemental teaching tools:
- Teacher's Manual
- Test Bank
- Computerized Testing (Windows and Macintosh)
- Workbook
- Transparency Masters Binder
- CNN Law-Related Education Video
- Student Scenes Video
- Law in Your Life - addresses the needs of many young people who would benefit from
practical law lessons like those offered in Street Law: A Course in Practical Law, but on
a lower reading level. Also has a Teacher's Resource Binder.
- Teens, Crime and the Community: Education and Action for Safer Schools and Neighborhoods
(3rd Edition) - challenges young people to take part in making their communities safe.
Supplemental materials include:
- Teacher's Manual
- Test Bank
- CNN Law-Related Education Video
- Community Works: Smart Teens Make Safer Communities, A Teens, Crime, and the Community
Action Kit - combines education and action to reduce teen victimization and build
community through service projects.
- We Can Work It Out! (grades 7-12) & Let's Say We Can Work It Out! (ages 8-13) -
helps students develop the skills they need to manage conflict in their daily lives.
- Street Law Mock Trial Series - features 6 different mock trials designed to provide an
interactive educational experience for students in grades 7-12.
- Human Rights for All - designed to teach secondary students and adults about the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and democratic principles.
- Great Trials in American History - highlights 15 significant United States Supreme Court
cases from 1866-1978.
- Democracy for All - explores principles and definitions of democracy around the world
using interactive strategies.
- Homicide: Life on the Streets - developed in conjunction with Court TV, this curriculum
utilizes segments of the popular television series to help high school students learn
real-life lessons about such topics as arrest procedures, searches, interrogation, Miranda
warnings, sensitivity to the rights of the victims and police use of force.
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