Service Learning Announcements & Updates
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Upcoming Professional Development
for Teachers and Community Partners
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For Classroom Teachers:
Service Learning PD for Middle School and High School Teachers!
The Social Science & Civic Engagement Department is pleased to partner with
Design For Change USA
for important professional development days.
Click
here
for Middle School Teacher PD (2/6/18)
Click
here
for High School Teacher PD (2/5/18)
Please share with your colleagues!
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For Community Partners:
January 10, 2018 9 -11 am
2651 W Washington
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With Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE)
For CPS teachers and community partners
Click
here
for more information
January 25, 2018, 4:30-6:30 pm
2651 W. Washington
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Apply now for the
EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge!
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The
Nature Museum
,
Illinois Green Alliance
, and
Civic ArtWorks
invite you to
apply
for 2018 EPIC Sustainable Neighborhood Youth Challenge, a program for CPS high school science and social studies teachers and their students. Student teams investigate local sustainability issues and community needs, receive in-person and online mentorship from Illinois Green Alliance professionals, and develop community-focused sustainability campaigns. In partnership with the CPS Office of Social Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom-integrated service learning project. Teachers can also choose to integrate the EPIC Challenge into an existing club or other after-school context.
Program components:
Teachers participate in two evening PD workshops at the Nature Museum (Wed Feb 7 & Tue Mar 13, 2018) and receive ongoing support to implement the EPIC Challenge curriculum in their classroom. Teachers receive PD Clock Hours and a $150 stipend upon completion of the program.
Teachers and students team attend a Challenge Kick-off event and symposium at the Nature Museum on Saturday, February 24, 2018, where they learn from sustainability experts and work with Illinois Green Alliance mentors (transportation, lunch, and museum admission provided).
Illinois Green Alliance professionals provide in-person and online mentorship for the student teams throughout the development of their campaigns.
Student teams eligible for
$150 mini-grants to support research trips and campaign-related materials
Students use a digital platform (
Municipal
) to turn their ideas into campaigns for action, grow a network of supporters, collect valuable feedback, organize campaign-related activities, and track and analyze progress.
The top three students teams are honored at Illinois Green’s annual
Limelight awards
in mid-May 2018.
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Check out more great professional development opportunities
here
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUR STUDENTS
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For the 7th year in a row, Mikva Challenge is proud to open our
Mini-Grant Application for Action Civics Projects! Teachers with students in grades 6-12 are invited to help students use this year's application to apply for
either $500 OR $1000 to support youth-designed action projects that aim to address community and/or school-based issues of their choice. Classes/teams selected to receive mini-grant funds will:
- Design and implement a project to improve their school and/or community using Mikva’s six-step Issues to Action process: examine community; choose an issue; research the issue’s root causes; analyze power; develop strategies; take action.
- Send a team of 4-8 youth to present your project before peers and community leaders at Mikva’s Action Civics Showcase on May 22, 2018.
How to Apply / Implementation Requirements
- Sign up HERE (if you have not already) to complete a one-on-one conversation with / start receiving emails and updates from Mikva’s Issues to Action team of staff.
- Bring 5 students from your class/team to our MLK Youth Action Summit on Mon., Jan. 15, 2018. (Registration HERE)
- Decide what issue your project will address and which mini-grant your class/team will apply for (ITA or ITA-Aspen Track). (Learn more about the difference on our FAQ page HERE.)
- Record video(s) of one or more students from your class/team answering each question in the RFP found HERE.
- Use the application below to submit the video(s) of your proposal before the deadlines: February 1st (ITA-Aspen Track) or March 1st (ITA).
- Classes/Teams that submit applications by Feb. 1st will receive award notifications by Feb. 15th. (Those that apply by the Mar. 1st deadline will receive the same by Mar. 15th.)
- Bring 4-8 students to present your project at Mikva’s Action Civics Showcase on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.
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The
Stevenson Center
invites high school students to write original short opinion pieces (1,000 words or less) or multi-media presentations (of no more than 3 minutes and/or 100 megabytes in upload size) on topics that affect public policy. It is hoped that students will choose topics of deep concern to them. The range can be broad. Examples include, but are not limited to: climate change, campaign finance reform, immigration, civil rights, foreign policy or other contemporary subjects. Controversial subjects are acceptable, though the tone and language should remain respectful.
Please submit essays by March 15, 2018 on our website:
www.stevensoncenterondemocracy.org/students.
Blind copies of each essay will be read by a committee of three Stevenson Center advisors.
$250.00 will be awarded to the three winning essays. The first prize essay will be published on our website.
The authors of essays worthy of second tier commendation will not be published on the website or receive monetary awards but will receive letters of thanks for participation.
Essays should be both analytical and original. Judging will be determined by clarity and relevance of the thesis, development of the argument with precise, persuasive and well-organized evidence, creativity, impact, and summation of the message.
Click
here
for more information.
Click
here
for more youth leadership opportunities!
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Teachers! The SSCE department wants your input on Summer PD. Please fill out
this
30-second
survey
today! If you have ideas and suggestions for PD, over the summer and throughout the school year, please
email
us!
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