Program
Highlights
- Deliberating in a Democracy (DID) -- International professional development and cooperative exchange program between high school teachers and students
in the United States and former Soviet emerging democracies to improve the quality of civic education by deliberating current issues
that represent tensions between liberty, equality, and safety with each other and with policymakers
- Educating for Democracy -- Professional development initiative created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago that
focuses on civic education and is designed to improve the quality, content, and process of teaching and learning for
the critical elementary years
- Equal Justice Under Law -- Illinois high school students study and conduct a moot court deliberation on a U.S.
Supreme Court case, then apply their deliberations to a related policy
question currently facing Illinois
- Illinois Civic Mission Coalition -- Nonpartisan coalition of schools, foundations, government, non-profit organizations
and the private sector are working together to help high schools prepare students to
become engaged citizens
- Illinois State Law-Related Education Conference -- Annual programs of workshops for
teachers address current legal and political issues, interactive teaching methods, and
innovative materials for the classroom
- Illinois Youth Summit -- Illinois high school students address public policy issues with
their peers and with local, state, and national leaders
- In-Services, Workshops and Seminars-Day-long workshops and multiple day seminars for
teachers on legal issues, law-related teaching methods, and classroom strategies for
conducting discussions on controversial topics
- Lawyer in the Classroom -- Attorney volunteers partner with teachers to help Chicago students understand
their rights and responsibilities under the law using CRFC curricula
- A More Perfect Union -- Interactive seventh- and eighth-grade curriculum about the U.S. Constitution to meet Illinois Public Law 195
- Professional Development -- Day-long In-services and workshops, and multi-day seminars and institutes for both elementary
and secondary level teachers on legal issues, law-related teaching methods, and classroom strategies
for conducting discussions on controversial topics
- Service Learning-training -- Workshops, resources, and materials for integrating community service into the classroom
- Teaching American History -- Partnerships with local school districts to infuse LRE into U.S. History classes
- VOICE -- Fourth- and fifth-grade students learn the basics of the American legal system, practice ways to resolve conflict peacefully, and engage in community service
- We the People... Project Citizen -- Middle school program actively engages students in learning how to monitor and influence public policy and encourages civic participation among students, their parents, and members of the community
- Youth For Justice -- A national network of law-related education organizations, providing training, materials, and technical assistance to every state
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Product
Highlights
- Chicago Directory of Law-Related Education Resources -- Guide to locating materials, speakers, and field experiences for LRE; lists 130 organizations
- From the School Newsroom To the Courtroom -- interactive lessons on the First
Amendment's protection of free expression
- Giving Back: A Community Service-Learning Manual for Youth Courts -- 25 community service learning lesson
designed to address the goals of the balanced and restorative justice movement and the educational
needs of youthful offenders.
- Illinois Youth Summit Curricula -- free and downloadable high school curricula on current public policy issues
- It's Yours: The Bill of Rights, Student Edition and Teacher Edition -- Eight
units of interactive lessons on the Bill of Rights for students who read below grade
level.
- Youth and Society: Rights and Responsibilities, Fifth Edition -- Laws and regulations that apply to people under 18 in Illinois at home, at school, and
in the community
- The Legal Circle -- free semi-annual newsletter
- Preparing Citizens -- How to design and use a variety of alternative assessments
for powerful social studies programs; developed by teachers in CO, IL, MI, OR, and WA
- Primary VOICE: Literature and the Law -- 12 lesson primary social studies curriculum incorporating conflict resolution,
law-related education, and service learning while promoting critical reading skills
- Service Learning in the Social Studies -- guide to using service learning to identify
community problems, assess public policy, and develop student-based responses to issues
- Trainers Times -- LRE oriented semi-annual newsletter, free and available online in pdf format.
- VOICE -- elementary level violence prevention and social studies curriculum
- Working Together: We the People -- in 15 simple lessons, this text brings the
U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights to life; middle school level
- Working Together: Lessons in Justice -- 10 interactive lessons on law and citizenship;
middle school
- Youth and Society: Rights and Responsibilities, Fifth Edition
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