Category: project citizen
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School Violence: Student Reflection
Today my class did a rehearsal for their Project Citizen public hearings, which are at the end of this week. In case you missed my post explaining Project Citizen, you can read it here. One of my classes chose to research and create policy about school violence in our home state, New Jersey. Not only is…
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History, Political Efficacy, and PBL
I’ve always known that one of the primary goals of my teaching is for students to understand the philosophy behind their rights as Americans, analyze how people have interpreted and defended their rights in the past, investigate how they continue to do so in the present, and to reflect upon their roles in…