Improving High School Civic Education – Prof. Dev. for teachers

Posted by on June 18, 2004

[posted from National Service-Learning Partnership]

Improving High School Civic Education
High school civics, government and social studies teachers from every part of Pennsylvania are invited to participate in the 2004-05 Pennsylvania Student Voices Project to improve civic education in high schools.

One hundred teachers will be selected to attend a professional development workshop for two days in June in Philadelphia or for a one-day session in Pittsburgh in August. Student Voices, based at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, was created in 1999 to improve the civic education of high school students in cities throughout the country. Each teacher accepted for either workshop will receive a $500 honorarium for participating in the training and implementing the curriculum and a $500 Learn and Serve America grant, provided through the Pennsylvania Department of Education, for service-learning projects connected to Student Voices. If teachers cannot attend any of the professional development workshops but are interested in implementing the Student Voices curriculum in their school, send an email to PaStudentVoices@aol.com.

http://student-voices.org/pennsylvania/apply/