Criteria 5: Endorsement

Once you have completed your Civic Engagement Project and SSCE Student Reflection Form:

• Email  your project advisor and ask them to complete the SSCE Endorsement Form. (Once your project advisor has completed the form, you will be notified by email.)

Your mentor/teacher will answer the following questions:

Civically engaged individuals demonstrate characteristics of civic mindedness.  Please check all that apply regarding the ways you have witnessed characteristics of civic mindedness in the individual named above.

• Concern for the rights and well-being of their fellow community members

• Desire to contribute to the common good

• A proactive commitment to equity, inclusivity, racial and ethnic diversity and fairness

• Appreciating and seeking out a variety of perspective and valuing differences, including those voices that are underrepresented or marginalized

• Demonstration of a sense of civic duty and local, state, national or global levels

• Awareness of the value of their own experiences and the knowledge of their own community to make positive social, political, environmental or economic contributions to be the greater good

• Respect for the contributions of other members of society who do not share the same racial, economic, cultural or political background

• Demonstrating empathy through inclusion and helping to elevate the voices of others

• Standing up for oneself or another student who is experiencing bullying, harassment, discrimination, exclusion or unwanted attention

• Leading a group to work toward providing a common good