Professional development scholarships available

Deadline for application November 30

Thanks to MEEMIC Insurance, the Michigan Center for Civic Education is pleased to offer stipends of up to $200 for first time attendees to “Educating for Citizenship,” the Center’s Annual Conference. The stipend will cover one year of MCCE membership, conference registration, and substitute reimbursement.

Educating for Citizenship will be held December 10, 2009 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center in East Lansing.

Sessions Include:

Elementary

• Elementary Civics: It’s More Than Flags and Red, White, and Blue T-Shirts
• Taking Citizenship Beyond the Textbook
• Teacher/Lawyer Partnerships: Teaching Elementary Students About the Law
• We the People: Free Resources for Meeting 4th/5th Grade Civics GLCE

Middle School

• Civics and Service: Connecting Academic Service Learning and Project Citizen
• Mock Trials in the Middle School Classroom
• We the People: Free Resources for Meeting 8th Grade History GLCE

High School

• Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics Round Table
• Deliberating in a Democracy: Surveillance
• Making Sense of the 96 High School Civics Expectations
• The Michigan High School Mock Trial Tournament: Raising the Bar
• Teen Court: A Partnership Between Schools and Courts
• We the People: Free Resources for Meeting HSCE in Civics/Government
• Deliberating in a Democracy: Marriage and the State

General

• American’s Legislators Back to School Program
• Celebrating Patriot’s Week
• Civics for the Heard and the Hands
• Ideas for Constitution Day
• You Rule! Ideas and Free Resources for Teaching about Representative Democracy

To apply for a scholarship, follow the link below to an online form. Fill it out and click “Done” at the bottom. Make sure you get the “Thank you for completing...” message before you leave the site or your application will not be submitted. Forms must be submitted by November 30. Scholarship recipients will be notified by December 2.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cPhRo8nbVwd51_2bRvIdxCEw_3d_3d

If you have any questions, please contact the Center at MCCE@oakland.k12.mi.us or 248-209-2325.