Program
Highlights
- KidLAW -- offers assistance to schools in literature-based mock trials for students of
all ages
- Law schools at Seattle University and University of Washington: "Street Law;" other law
student in the classroom programs
- Office of the Administrator for the Courts: "Judges in the Classroom,"
Court Access, a grant-funded variant of Judges in the Classroom, in which judges
are paired with teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) to present LRE lessons from
prepared lessons that incorporate ESL teaching strategies
- The State Office of the Superintendent for Public Instruction (OSPI): LRE training in
social studies teacher training programs
- Teens, Crime and Community -- Street Law program
- The Washington State Attorney General's Office -- conflict resolution and peer mediation
programs
- WSBA Speakers Bureau Program-matching volunteer attorneys with middle school and high
school teachers on an as-needed basis (in conjunction with the WSBA Young Lawyers Division
Public Service Committee) to assist with mock trials and studies of government and the
legal system
- WSBA Young Lawyers Division has developed and implemented or supported a number of
public education programs: the annual "Minority Pre-Law Conference" for
high school youth, the annual "YMCA Mock Trial Program" for high school
youth, annual "Law Day" projects, the "Aspiring Youth
Program" for middle school youth, and a mentorship/scholarship program
whereby high school students shadow attorneys.
- YMCA Youth and Government coordinates a "Youth Legislature Progam" and a
"Mock Trial Competition"
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Product
Highlights
- Brochures
- Citizens' Guide to Washington Courts
- "Citizens' Rights Pamphlets"
- Video on the State Supreme Court, "Supreme Justice"
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