Civic Engagement

Students will be future ready through balanced, personal learning.

Social & Emotional Learning Academic Success Civic Engagement

Civic engagement has been defined as individuals sharing their skills and knowledge through actions intended to improve communities, states, nations, the world and themselves.

Civic Engagement

Redesign Team Members

Jackie Bohnenblust

Jenny Vernon

2017-2018 Building Investigative Team Members

Katherine Hughes Jane Ledell Taryn Vetter

Melanie Mann Joan Schieferecke Brad Kelly

Caley Cole-Robinson

2018 CAN Award Recipient

Eight Kansas schools recognized by Civic Advocacy Network

"The application process for this award started last year when McPherson Middle School was chosen to be part of the Mercury 7 schools and began to participate in the Kansans Can Redesign initiative. Civic Engagement was chosen as one of our focus areas from our vision statement of: 'Students will be future ready through balanced, personal learning.' The Civic Engagement team worked and researched the entire 2017-2018 school year documenting civic learning projects that met the criteria the award specified. MMS is thrilled to be able to be named a School of Excellence for three years with the goal to continue to grow and share civic engagement opportunities for our students."

2017-2018 Pilot Projects

CNN Student News

Our first step toward connecting our students with the community is building knowledge and empathy with the McPherson community and the world. A redesign initiative that we are piloting during the spring semester is having every student watch CNN 10 during our Packademics time on the first and last days of the week. CNN 10 is a ten minute news reel designed for students to share national and international current events.

https://www.cnn.com/cnn10

Civic Engagement Trainings

12/13/2017 - Civic Engagement Redesign Team Meeting with Don Gifford

2/19/2018 - Civic Engagement Conference in Topeka, KS

Jackie Bohnenblust & Student Presentation Group

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