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Member Spotlight: Samantha Chapa, University of Houston

Political Science Now

Samantha’s dissertation focuses on the impacts of urban immigrant inclusion policies on the participation and civic engagement of immigrant and minoritized communities. The nonprofit also has a civic engagement team, which focuses on turning low-propensity voters out to the polls. Learn more here.

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Lesson Ideas for Using Political Cartoons to Teach Civics

Let's Cultivate Greatness

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. This analysis strategy works well for bell ringers to cover current political news and as part of the main lesson to teach civics concepts. Then, download your FREE lesson kit to get started.

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Girl Scouts against the world

The Hechinger Report

Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. It published a special edition of its 110-year-old youth magazine, newly renamed from Boys’ Life to Scout Life, honoring them.) This year, the organization inaugurated its first female Eagle Scouts. (It

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When a dollar and a dream isn’t enough

The Hechinger Report

“With less than 3% of VC funds employing black and Latinx investment professionals, only a small fraction of that sum will find its way to businesses owned or run by people of color,” according to the magazine Fast Company analysis of data compiled by the venture capital database Pitchbook.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

You will hold regular (a minimum of five) meetings based on a collective reading of Teaching for Black Lives and a recent issue of Rethinking Schools magazine. They also encouraged and created opportunities for school wide participation in the Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose and Week of Action. The ideas above are suggestions.

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Member Spotlight: Dr. Matthew Stein, College of Southern Nevada

Political Science Now

We must protect and expand American democracy in the face of authoritarian threats, and global backsliding, and promoting civic engagement is one way I work towards achieving this goal. The APSA Member Spotlight program features one member each quarter in the APSA Member Magazine, Political Science Today. Learn more here.

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Operation Outbreak: Simulating a pandemic while living it

The Hechinger Report

Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Brown had first contacted Sabeti a couple years earlier, after reading her Time magazine profile to his science-loving daughter, then 6 years old. “We We were really amazed by that.” Starting at 8 a.m.

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