The Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy (EAD) is composed of three interrelated supporting components: the seven themes, the five design challenges, and the six core pedagogical principles (CPPs). The CPPs are presented in the EAD Pedagogy Companion, alongside indicators and conditions for success. The EAD Pedagogy Companion supports educators in implementing the EAD Roadmap with findings and recommendations from the latest research in education, the learning sciences, and developmental science. 

Today, we spotlight Amanda Juvera, who participated in our Civic Leadership Institute.

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

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

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!

Education is based, in large part, on questions. We ask questions to learn things; we ask questions to determine what someone else knows, and we ask questions to infer what someone else understands. And yet, in most classrooms, most questions are generated by the teacher, and student-generated questions are unstructured, based on an individual student’s skill and knowledge, and often asked in pursuit of clarity of instructions or ideas. In short, students are most often cast in the role of answering questions about content rather than generating them.