The deadline to join our exclusive Civics Curriculum Pilot Program is now five days away! Interested in joining? Complete the application linked below by Friday, June 21 at 11:59 pm ET! #youthinpolicy #education #discourse
🍎 Attention educators! YIP now wants to bring our curriculum to your classroom! For the past two years, the YIP's Education Department has been developing a nonpartisan, discourse-based high school civics curriculum to combat political polarization and a lack of youth civic engagement. 🗣️ Starting in the 2024-25 school year, we hope to officially launch our curriculum in classrooms with a cohort of educators piloting our activities and sharing teacher and student feedback, ultimately allowing us to improve our resources to better support classrooms. YIP's discourse-based activities are backed by research showing quantifiable positive effects on students' topic comprehension, understanding of other political perspectives, and motivation to be civically engaged. We presented these findings in the only student-led session out of the 300+ sessions at The College Board's 2023 AP Annual Conference. 📊 We offer eight curriculum units spanning a range of policy areas and supplemental current events resources, tackling some of today's most challenging societal issues. We will also host virtual summer workshops with our partner organizations to engage directly with cohort members and share teacher-and-student-focused resources from our curriculum. To support pilot programs, we will provide stipends of up to $500 to each educator, funded by a grant from the Riley's Way Foundation Call for Kindness! To join this cohort of educators, please complete this application form by Friday, June 21, at 11:59 p.m. ET: https://lnkd.in/gNzPvmuw. If you have questions or concerns about the application or the program, email us at education@yipinstitute.org. Educators, we are excited to work with you! 🌟