The Prayer for America campaign is designed to: Give students an opportunity to create their own prayers and wishes for their democracy. Give older Americans insight into the prayers of the next generation. Downloadable Resources Student Submission Form Teacher Toolkit Downloadable Resources Student Submission Form Teacher Toolkit The Student Prompt Since our country’s founding, many among us …
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Dear Civic Spirit Participants, Below you will find three articles on the nature and responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. As you read them, think carefully about how you would define the term “citizen”. What does it mean to live in a society that is designed to be governed by the people? How do you …
We are excited to share that we will be leading two seminars in March at the upcoming 2019 Prizmah Conference for Jewish Day Schools in Atlanta, GA. Tamara Tweel will be moderating a panel with Heads of Schools on “Democratic Skill Building in Jewish Day Schools” and Lindsay Bressman will be moderating a panel with …
As an organization committed to supporting the civic engagement of teachers and students, we recognize that Civic Spirit must demonstrate similar involvement and leadership in local civic society.. We have joined a group of stakeholders who are helping to ensure that the Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) legislation passed in November 2016 is implemented in a …
As part of its design, from Day 1, Civic Spirit embedded an evaluator in the 3-year pilot program to ensure that we are objectively defining success, assessing outcomes, facing challenges, and capturing our best practices and distinct value within schools. Civic Spirit’s Evaluator, Daniel Olson, attended the 2018 Summer Institute and wrote an evaluation including qualitative …