 Institute for Citizens & Scholars Offers Fellowships for Young Leaders
This year’s Civic Spring Fellowship is an opportunity for young people to lead a local community project focused on community health, environmental justice, the 2022 elections, or the impact of COVID-19.
Applications are open until April 29
The Civic Spring Fellowship has two classes:
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Civic Spring: National supports youth-driven organizations from across the country with grants up to $25,000 for pursuing a local community project. Apply here!
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Civic Spring: Arizona supports individuals or groups of young people pursuing projects in Maricopa County, Arizona, with $1,800 stipends. Apply here!
Students! Sign Up for Youth History Project
We're one month away from the application closing for the Youth Heritage Project!
YHP is a 4-day immersive program that connects 40 high schoolers and 8 adult mentors with historic, cultural, and natural resources throughout Washington. The program encourages high school age youth to explore new parts of the state and engage with real-world issues in the realms of history, culture, and preservation while developing leadership skills with their peers.
Any high school-age youth may Apply now through May 13.
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Submit Your Project for CA$H!
MyImpact Challenge contest is for students and teachers who are making an impact with citizenship projects in their communities. The contest will award $40,000 in total prizes, including a $10,000 student Grand Prize and teacher prizes! MyImpact Challenge is a civic engagement contest hosted by the Bill of Rights Institute.
Students will:
- Learn how their project aligns to constitutional principles
- Submit evidence of how they impacted their communities
- Win up to $10,000 in prizes
Entries due May 16th | Download the flyer
Washington State is Looking for Young Leaders Like You!
The Legislative Youth Advisory Council (LYAC) is a statewide leadership development and civic education program for students 14-18 years old. LYAC empowers young leaders to learn about and engage directly with the legislative process through education and advocacy. The program is fully youth-led with oversight from the Office of the Lieutenant Governor.
Applications and letters of recommendations are due by April 30th, 2022.
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Attend the WA Project Citizen Spring Training!
Achieving Standards through Civic Action
Project Citizen professional development trainings present unique opportunities for elementary, middle school and high school teachers to take part in professional development featuring We the People: Project Citizen, one of the country’s foremost civic education programs.
April 23 | 7:30 am - 3:15 pm | See the flyer for more details
Each participant receives a FREE classroom set of Project Citizen textbooks as well as additional materials on public policy and FREE clock hours! To learn more and attend, contact Kathy Hand at kathyhand@comcast.net.
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 Sign Up Now for WSCSS Spring Conference 2022
Our Shared Home: Lessons of Stewardship
In this free, online webinar, attendees will examine cultural narratives while critically considering community perspective, environmental science, and public policies that center sustainability. Visit the event home page to learn more and register.
Saturday, April 23 | 9:00am - 12:00pm PST | Free Clock Hours!
Join us for the next Western States Civics Coalition Session
Moving Beyond the Textbook: Engaging Students in Simulations of Democratic Processes and Procedures
Looking for ways to deepen your students’ grasp of content and concepts? Want to move beyond the textbook? Join us in an interactive session to explore approaches and resources that deepen student understanding of democratic processes and procedures.
As the Director of Educator Engagement for iCivics, speaker Natacha Scott focuses on growing the engagement of educators in-person and virtually through professional development sessions, curriculum, and other experiences.
Learn more about this workshop: Session #4 in the series.
April 28 | 3:30-5:00 pm PT | Free | Online | K-12 Audience | Register Now!
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Free PD to Teach About the Holocaust
Teach about fighting bias, discrimination, racism, antisemitism to create more equitable systems and school environments with these upcoming FREE professional development workshops. Note: The April 5 session has expired.
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New Inquiry Design Model lessons from PBS Learning Media on C3Teachers.Org
Check out these Inquiries using the C3 Framework and produced by PBS LearningMedia for the Ken Burns in the Classroom collection.
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Apply for Civic Education Grants
The Civic Education Grant provides financial support to educators and students participating in high-quality civic education programs at the national, state, tribal and/or local government level. This includes how the governments were formed, how they make decisions, what effects they have on citizens, and how citizens can participate with decision makers.
Grants will generally be awarded between the range of $250.00 to $1,000.00. Grants will be considered in excess of $1,000.00 contingent on availability of funds and strength of application. Apply here.
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April is Celebrate Diversity Month
Resources for Students, Teachers, and Parents
A proclamation, which was created in 2004 for the observance of Celebrate Diversity Month, is now widely observed in April. For more information and resources about this observance, see the April 2022 Diversity Calendar on the Diversity Resources website.
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WA State History Museum Honors Day of Remembrance
Free community performance and program commemorating the 80th anniversary of the wartime eviction of Japanese Americans
The Washington State Historical Society, writer and public historian Tamiko Nimura, and Tacoma Arts Live are teaming up to host a program commemorating the 80th anniversary of the forced eviction of Japanese and Japanese American people living in Tacoma. Languages of Memory: A South Sound Japanese American Day of Remembrance is free and open to all; no registration needed.
Washington State History Museum | Tuesday, May 17 | 6:00-8:30 PM
The program begins with a screening of the play Nihonjin Face, which was written by OSPI's own, Janet Hayakawa, education specialist at Densho, and Tere Martinez, a playwright and educator. Hayakawa will present a literary reading following the screening.
Also at WSHM:
The Negro Motorist Green Book: Exhibition about African American Actualization, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
This multimedia exhibition is on view through June 12. Check it out!
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Do you have a good story to share?
OSPI is seeking stories that recognize Social Studies educators doing good work in grades K-12. We encourage administrators and educators to submit stories of districts, schools, classrooms, or community organizations promoting Social Studies. Send your story to SocialStudies@k12.wa.us.
New Self-paced Course: Chinese in the United States
Explore American History from a New Perspective
Chinese in the United States, a new Gilder Lehrman Institute Self-Paced Course, considers American history through the lens of Chinese experiences.
Madeline Hsu, historian at the University of Texas at Austin, will explore the history of Chinese in America with an emphasis on Chinese American identity and community formations under the shadow of the Yellow Peril.
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Judicial Institute is Back In-Person!
The Fourteenth Annual Judicial Institute for Teachers Grades 5-12 is back in-person!
The US Court and Seattle University School of Law offer this exciting opportunity to teachers in grades 5-12 in Western Washington at no cost. 23 FREE Clock Hours!
July 6, 7, & 8 | 8am-5pm, each day | In-person (Tacoma) | Learn more & Register
This institute is for Washington teachers in grades 5-12 who did not participate in a prior Judicial Institute.
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Attend the Eighth Annual IDM™ Summer Institute
Making Inquiry Possible
Sponsored by C3 Teachers and National Council for the Social Studies, the IDM Summer Institute is back! With more and more states adopting new standards featuring the C3 Framework and inquiry, the need for designing inquiry learning experiences in social studies is greater than ever.
July 11-12 | Online | 10:00 am-4:00 pm, each day (Eastern time) | Register
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