With a couple of brief history lessons and some hypothetical situations, seniors in Jamie Nash-Mayberry’s classroom at Cobden High showed why they were recently named one of the state s five
Grayslake Central High School Social Studies teacher and Department Chair, Mr. Jason Janczak, was recently awarded The Carolyn Pereira Civil Leadership Award from the Illinois Democracy Schools Network.
An Indiana law establishing a middle school civic education requirement is the latest step in a multisector partnership that aims to help students get a better idea of what democracy is all about.
This week, we’re talking with Mendota High School civics teacher Jason Artman!Jason played a key role in Mendota joining the Democracy Schools network last year and we talk about what emphasizing democracy across a whole school really looks like.