Overview

How do we ensure all students have access to high-quality civics learning opportunities? What specific knowledge, skills, and dispositions are essential for civic readiness? What does it mean to be an informed, thoughtful, and active citizen? What does democratic citizenship look like in action? How do we effectively foster civic agency?

Every student regardless of race, class, ethnicity, language status, religion, education, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability has the right to civics education, including effective pedagogy and applied learning. Civics education should be culturally responsive, develop students’ civic identities, and center the acquisition of knowledge, intellectual skills, and applied competencies that citizens need for informed and effective participation in civics and democratic life.