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Civics Education at LCH

2019 LCH Learning & Leading Community Event

Presenters

Christie Kay - Principal Natalie Christ - 5th Grade Teacher Erin Butson - 1st Grade Teacher Olivia Besemer - 6th Grader Sophie Legaspie - 6th Grader Gabby Sansone - 6th Grader Lucas Santos - 6th Grader

Social Studies Standards

https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/hssframework.asp

Adopted in July 2016 Published 2017

Six Research-Based Proven Practices in Civic Education

PROVEN PRACTICE #1: Discuss current local, national, and international issues and events in the classroom, particularly those that young people view as important to their lives. PROVEN PRACTICE #2: Design and implement programs that provide students with the opportunity to apply what they learn through performing community service that is linked to the formal curriculum and classroom instruction. PROVEN PRACTICE #3: Offer extracurricular activities that provide opportunities for young people to get involved in their schools or communities. PROVEN PRACTICE #4: Encourage student participation in school governance. PROVEN PRACTICE #5: Encourage students’ participation in simulations of democratic processes and procedures. PROVEN PRACTICE #6: Provide instruction in government, history, law, and democracy.

PROVEN PRACTICE #1:

Discuss current local, national, and international issues and events in the classroom, particularly those that young people view as important to their lives.

PROVEN PRACTICE #2:

Design and implement programs that provide students with the opportunity to apply what they learn through performing community service that is linked to the formal curriculum and classroom instruction.

PROVEN PRACTICE #3:

Offer extracurricular activities that provide opportunities for young people to get involved in their schools or communities.

PROVEN PRACTICE #4:

Encourage student participation in school governance.

PROVEN PRACTICE #5:

Encourage students’ participation in simulations of democratic processes and procedures.

PROVEN PRACTICE #6:

Provide instruction in government, history, law, and democracy.

Student Voice

Civics has led students to find their own voice! Empowered through learning experiences such as: ○ Guest presenters ○ Classroom lessons ○ Speaking parts in presentations ○ Paradigm shift ○ Results!

Adult Voice

It isn’t just our students who are being empowered….it’s the adults as well! YIMBY or NIMBY

Homelessness

Persons who are homeless want the same things as all other people

• Want friends, family, loving home
• Sometimes there’s something that is getting in the way

Fill-a-belly and volunteering experiences:

• Met people and learned how some even try and give back to the

community despite being homeless

• Learned that homeless people are just like everyone else
• “After this learning, I realized that I didn’t really see them as people until

after I started and learning about them.”

Family Challenge Act of 2018

Declaration of Human Rights

Everyone has a right ot home and safety 5th & 6th Graders have been studying this through their civics learning

Process of government

• Government officials can’t just give directions
• People have a say in how things work

○ Democracy ○ Importance of voice

• Most of our laws today came from long ago and from different places

○ Ancient civilizations - had representatives and systems of government ○ The way we do things today isn’t all that original

Ancient Influences

Current rules of law were built on ancient systems/laws

• Clear and publicized (displayed) laws
• Branches of government
• Involving the people in government
• Separation of power (no one person can decide everything)
• Innocent until proven guilty

Judicial System experiences

• Walk through ancient civilization - included rules of law
• Mock trials - learned the process of court, the roles of people, the rule of

innocent until proven guilty

1st Grade Civics Examples

Highlights

• What is a democracy?

Who Gets to Make the Laws in a Democracy? Virtual Field Trip to the state capital to learn about how laws are made

• What Do You Do if the Law is Not Fair?

Guest Expert - Owen Williams’s mom Talking about what to do if laws are not fair. Facilitated a mock trial with the students. We are taking recess away… What is your position?

Highlights

• What Does a Super Citizen look like?

What do our World Ready Character Traits really look like? Discovering the biographies of Super Hero Citizens who have gone before us…

• What did Martin Luther King do to change the laws?

What did Jane Addams do to change the laws for kids? What did John Muir & Teddy Roosevelt do to save our amazing places in nature?

Highlights

Super Hero Citizen Project!

• What character traits, interests, and talents make me a super

citizen?

• How can I use my strengths to help make my community

better?

• How can I be an agent of change...

As an individual? As a classmate? As a family member? As a soccer player?

California State Standards First Grade

1.1 Students describe the rights and individual responsibilities of citizenship.

• 1. Understand the rule-making

process in a democracy.

• 2. Understand the elements of fair play

and good sportsmanship, respect for the rights and opinions of others, and respect for rules by which we live, including the meaning of the "Golden Rule."