Hello, my name is Armand Todoran. I am a straight A high school senior at Deer Valley High School. I am both a US and Romanian citizen, having lived 12 of my 17 years on this planet in the Eastern European country of Romania. I came to the United States about 3 and a half years ago, at the begging of my high school career. My passions are international affairs, photography, history, and philosophy. I dream of becoming a National Geographic Explorer/Photographer as I want to inspire and inform people with my work.

Today, we spotlight Dawn Shim, who participated in our Civic Leadership Institute and is heavily involved in her community.

Tammy Morrow is a founding faculty member of Great Hearts Anthem, a Liberal Arts charter school, where she reads and discusses classical literature, philosophy, and American political oratory with high school students. She began her teaching career over 30 years ago and has worked in administration for several years as well.

Today, we spotlight Simran Padney, who participated in our Civic Leadership Institute.

It’s with great pleasure that we spotlight these two amazing teachers! Please join our podcast conversation as Chantelle and Ryan discuss the importance of civic education and engagement in rural areas.

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Alondra Salazar is a first-generation American educator who began working in education in 2010. She has been a front office secretary, McKinney-Vento Liaison, teacher, Social Studies Instructional Coach, and most recently, Student Culture Coordinator. She has an undergraduate degree in Social Studies and a Master’s in history; her passion is helping students identify what they are learning; this is her motivator for advocating for Social Studies education.

On September 25, 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as the first female Supreme Court Justice.

September 25. 2018: Governor Doug Ducey signed a proclamation making it Sandra Day O’Connor Day. The day-long celebration included constitution law presentations, roundtable discussions, and first-hand recollections of the state’s most famous member of the judiciary.

In this episode and post, we talked to Dr. Luke Perez, an Assistant Professor at the School of Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He shares his method for creating a quick summary for anything from Federalist 10 to a 1000-page book! This precis method helps students develop a summary to understand their reading and develop questions. This method is accessible to middle grades and up!

Introduction

The Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy is organized around an inquiry-based content framework of seven themes. These themes integrate history and civic education through key concepts, broad driving questions, and specific guiding questions. Even though the interplay of history and civics are the crux of the roadmap, the seven themes draw upon the broader social studies to include other tenets like geography, economics, culture and society, and governance.

Jeff attended Arizona State University, majoring in Secondary Education for Social Studies, later adding a Master’s degree in Secondary Education from Northern Arizona University in 2007. While at ASU, he returned to his alma mater, Mountain View High School in Mesa, to be a student teacher and learn from someone he considered the best, his AP US Government teacher from high school. After that, he was hired to teach at Mountain View and taught various Social Studies subjects over 17 years, including US Government, AP European History, AP Comparative Government, and Economics.