Civic Life Project
Civic Life Project was founded by Emmy Award-winning filmmakers and educators to use the power of digital storytelling to engage and inform the next generation of citizens. Since its creation in 2010, Civic Life has overseen the production of more than 100 students produced films and has produced a yearly National Youth Film Challenge since 2015.
Democracy 2020 Youth Film Challenge
The Challenge is a unique bi-annual competition produced by the Civic Life Project. It invites students to generate civics-oriented videos that ultimately create a digital platform for young people to be heard on the issues that matter to them.
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Training and Tools
Based on their professional experience and their hands-on work with teachers and students, the Civic Life Team offers a variety of training and support for teachers and youth media coordinators.
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Youth Voter turnout and continuing civic engagement are crucial to the future of our democracy.
The Civic Life Project through its Youth Film Challenge and its work with schools across the country is committed to engaging the next generation of informed citizens.
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I will say it again - #civics is not the exclusive domain or responsibility of social studies teachers. All teachers have a duty to support students in understanding how their disciplines are connected to/implicated in white supremacist violence. https://twitter.com/PoliticsK12/status/1347169861701685249
As social studies teachers watched a violent, far-right mob breach the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the formal certification of the election of President-elect Joe Biden, a daunting question loomed: What would they say to their students about it? https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/insurgency-at-the-u-s-capitol-a-dreaded-real-life-lesson-facing-teachers/2021/01
Today: Another reason why #Civics needs to be meaningfully taught in EVERY single school. https://twitter.com/ChristieNold/status/1346908292254216199
Each person knocking down those doors once sat in a classroom.