C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

That search led us to the Inquiry Design Model (IDM), an approach that shifts Social Studies from rote memorization to deep, student-driven inquiry. Multilingual learners thrived in an environment where collaborative inquiry and multimodal learning allowed them to engage meaningfully with content.

Social Studies 40

Social Studies Public School Primary Sources Civic Engagement 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Arizona educators, who walked out of classrooms and schools on April 26, are the latest to join teachers in Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia in actively protesting and raising concerns with their legislatures. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

Civics 92

Civics Civic Engagement Government High School 92

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

In a system that all too often doesn’t solicit our input on anything beyond planning social events and fundraisers, too many of us become either oblivious or callous about the very concept of civic engagement. The resulting voter apathy follows a natural logic: If my voice doesn’t matter in school, then how could my ballot?

Civics 96

Civics Civic Engagement K-12 Government 96

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A friend who taught in the Philadelphia public schools for nearly four decades said that the presidential election made her feel like the schools had failed to do their job; that her work, as high school teacher, had failed to help her students understand the importance of democratic engagement. I am not alone.

Teaching 105

Teaching Civic Engagement Social Studies Civics 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Caroline Patrie is a high school science teacher in Maine’s Portland Public Schools; her first day as a teacher was September 11, 2001. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. “In Credit: Caroline Patrie. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching.

Charter School 145

Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145