Civics


 * Advocacy-Based Service-Learning**
 * Bundled Resource**
 * Description:** Advocacy-based service-learning is a critical model of civic education and a powerful level for community change. The University of Wisconsin’s Diana Hess and Casey Meehan define advocacy-based service, offer examples, answer common concerns, and raise five essential questions for practitioners.

Additional Resources > Orients facilitators to the intended audience, goals, agenda, and leader tips for delivering this presentation. > Includes a 36-slide exploration of advocacy as a model of service-learning and civic education. > Hess and Meehan review the key points from the PowerPoint presentation. > Once youth/ students have researched several promising policy alternatives, this activity and worksheet give them a framework to help select the most promising or powerful alternative. > Westheimer and Kahne (2000) researched service-learning programs to explore what type of citizen each hoped to inspire. This handout summarizes the three different conceptions of what people thought it meant to be a good citizen. > Includes a bibliography of resources on advocacy-based service-learning, along with helpful web sites.
 * **[|Facilitator's Guide]**
 * **[|PowerPoint Presentation]**
 * **[|Handout 1 - Summary of Key Points]**
 * **[|Handout 2 - Activity for How to Select the Best Policy Alternative]**
 * **[|Handout 3 - Three Types of Citizens]**
 * **[|Handout 4 - Resource List]**

**Service-Learning as a Strategy: Youth in Governance**
 * Bundled Resource**
 * Description:** The goal of Youth in Governance is "to enhance young people's influence by getting youth into (or close to) seats of institutional power and decision-making." Carrie Mook, Shepherd Zeldin, and Linda Camino from the University of Wisconsin created this comprehensive presentation that you can use to introduce others to the definition, forms, and implementation issues surrounding involving youth in governance. YIG can take many forms from a student on the school board to State Farm's Youth Advisory Board to Youth Courts.

Additional Resources > Orients trainers to the intended audience, goals, agenda, and leadership tips for delivering this presentation. > Includes 64 slide introduction to Youth in Governance including its definition, different forms, potential benefits, how to get started, and how to sustain such activities. > Includes a one-page information sheet about the presentation and a second page opening reflection activity. > Agenda for the workshop. > Two page summary of the potential benefits of Youth in Governance. > Instructions for a small group activity > Exploring strategies for getting started. > Four handouts focused on how to sustain YIG. > Provides a two-page assessment tool for exploring where youth are playing a genuine and influential role within your organization. > Give individuals an opportunity to reflect on the workshop. > Three-page list of helpful web sites, curricula, and suggested references and readings.
 * **[|Facilitator's Guide]**
 * **[|PowerPoint Presentation]**
 * **[|Handout 1 - Introduction]**
 * **[|Handout 2 - Agenda]**
 * **[|Handout 4 - YIG Positive Outcomes]**
 * **[|Handout 5 - Persuasive Speech Activity]**
 * **[|Handouts 6, 7 - Getting Started]**
 * **[|Handouts 8 to 11 - Sustaining YIG]**
 * **[|Handout 12 - Organizational Support for Youth Engagement Tool]**
 * **[|Handout 13 - Reflection]**
 * **[|Handout 14 - Resource List]**

media type="youtube" key="S_LbZ3XcfK4?fs=1" height="385" width="640" ** Make Your Voice Heard: Discover Democratic Education ** Nice 2.36 minute video on what students learn in over 13000 hours of K-12 schooling and what they should learn for democratic education.