National Constitution Center Blog

From: "Constitution Center" <constitutioncenter@gmail.com>

NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER BLOG

In an effort to reach teachers and students that may not be able to make the trip to Philadelphia, the education team at the National Constitution Center continues to expand its reach beyond the confines of the museum with its most recent endeavor, a venture into the blogosphere with its mission-inspired blog:

http://civiclearning.blogspot.com

The new blog provides educators with lesson ideas, conversation starters, and links to the electronic resources necessary to effectively teach current events with a constitutional connection. This blog will become an invaluable instrument to the educator who wishes their students to be well-informed and to understand the relevance and daily impact the constitution has on their lives.

Recent postings include:
- Teaching the President's Address to Congress
- Happy Birthday 16th Amendment - Primary Source Lesson Plan
- The 2010 US Census
- Teaching Attorney General Holder's Comments on Race

You can access the blog directly at:

http://civiclearning.blogspot.com/

You can subscribe to the blog's RSS feed at:

http://civiclearning.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Eli Lesser
Director of Education
National Constitution Center
Philadelphia, PA

CRF Summer Law Institute

--- From Herczog_Michelle <Herczog_Michelle@lacoe.edu>:


Constitutional Rights Foundation
Summer Law Institute
Co-Sponsored by UCLA School of Law and
California Bar Foundation

July 26 – August 1, 2009

Constitutional Rights Foundation and the California Bar Foundation are pleased to announce CRF’s Summer Law Institute (SLI) 2009. SLI is a weeklong program for students entering 10th, 11th, and 12th grade, who are interested in learning more about the American legal system. Students live on the UCLA campus for seven days and six nights, attend law-related classes, and engage in discussions led by university professors.

Participants will have the opportunity to attend a trial, interact with prominent judges and attorneys, and visit law and government offices. Additional activities include participation in trial-skills workshops led by experienced attorneys, participation in a mock trial, and team building and leadership activities.

More information can be found in the attached files.

Applications are due April 7th, 2009.

Tuition is $1,200, however a substantial amount of need-based scholarships are available.

For more information,
please contact:
Katie Moore
(213) 316-2104
katie@crf-usa.org
or
Laura Wesley
(213) 316-2128
laura@crf-usa.org

James Madison Graduate Fellowships

From: Andrew Workman [mailto:aworkman@mills.edu]

Teaching is an ancient and honorable profession that has become even more important in our rapidly changing contemporary society. The James Madison Fellowship Program was created to address a particularly pressing need in the field of secondary education. This is the fundamental need to teach young people, who will be tomorrow’s citizens, knowledge and understanding of the basic principles of limited government and constitutional liberty on which individual freedom and public good depend.

Through a national competition, the Foundation offers James Madison Fellowships to a select group of individuals desiring to become outstanding teachers of the American Constitution.

To learn more about our fellowships and the Foundation, visit http://www.jamesmadison.com/

Constitutional Rights Foundation's New Website

Dear Friend of Constitutional Rights Foundation,

We invite you to visit CRF's new website, please click the .pdf file to see what's new for October 16, 2008!


http://www.crf-usa.org/