Join the Michigan Youth Civic Engagement Project
what is the Michigan Youth Civic Engagement Project?
This project prepares students with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to participate actively in a diverse, democratic society. The project will strengthen student learning, involve faculty members, and build capacity of schools, social institutions, and communities for this purpose.
Interested in learning more about how you can promote civic engagement in the classroom? We’ve collected educational tools, resources, guides, guest speaker opportunities, and more.
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Want to stay in the loop and learn about opportunities for civic engagement? Sign up to receive information about:
- Voting
- Working the polls
- Local events
- Leading a campaign
- And much more!
More About the Project
This project will strengthen student learning, involve faculty members, and build capacity of schools, social institutions, and communities as it will:
- Teach the foundations of the American democratic system.
- Promote voting participation as an essential, non-partisan component of representative governance.
- Examine the societal issues facing a dynamic, multifaceted society.
- Strengthen communication, collaboration, consensus, and coalition building across differences.
- Engage students in all stages of planning, implementation, and evaluation of the project.
- Provide educational methods and materials to support school social studies standards which place emphasis on civic engagement.
- Create a network of colleges, universities, and high schools.
- Promote socially just education for all students, with emphasis on participation of students from areas that are too often economically disinvested and racially segregated..
- Produce a statewide YOUTH ISSUES AGENDA through consensus building and voting activities
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