Bill Of Rights Institute

Programs: Teacher development conferences & seminars: constitutional seminars: i constitutional seminars: by the close of fiscal year 2017 the institute conducted 13 on-site educational programs for teachers, training 813 teachers. By focusing on founding principles such as natural rights, due process protections, civic virtue, federalism, separation of powers, and citizenship, each program provides history and civics teachers with the tools and background knowledge needed to educate young people about america's founding principles and civic values. (continued in schedule o)

student education programs:the institute engaged with more than 72,000 students on a monthly basis through email, social media, contests, and in person programs. We the students scholarship contest: approximately 27,000 students took part in our scholarship program, we the students. Students were asked to write on the following prompt: to what extent in the u. S. Does the government--federal, state, and local--have the duty to monitor internet content? (continued in schedule o)

teacher outreach: the bill of rights institute continues its marketing of materials and programs to teachers and administrators. In addition to presentations made at various teacher-focused conferences, the institute markets materials to over 50,000 teachers in their network, and delivers elessons to over 27,000 educators.

instructional materials:designed to supplement standard u. S. History and civics textbooks, the bill of rights institute developed the following educational resources from january - december 2017:the bill of rights institute developed one new curriculum during this period. The gilded age and progressive era is an eight lesson curriculum that looks at the history of the united states between 1876-1924. The curriculum asks students to consider questions about how a republican society deals with significant economic, social, technological, and demographic change. The curriculum invited students to find parallels to political and social debates in the country today. The bill of rights institute also added 10 new lessons to its heroes and villains curriculum. These narratives and activities focus on the development of civic virtues and asks students to evaluate and learn from the actions of historic actors. The bill of rights institute added the american portraits series to the voices of history platform. These 139 engaging narratives from across american history invite students to step into the past and meet the men and women, both well-known and forgotten, who have helped shape our past. In addition, the bill of rights institute continually updated and delivered the following online instructional material:billofrightsinstitute. Org: this website provides teachers with free lesson plans and additional educational resources on the constitution and bill of rights. We received 6,129,685 unique page views throughout the year 2017. . Docsoffreedom. Org: this online textbook focuses on primary sources to teach students about history, government, and economics. The other themes will include how founding principles can be applied through all of the topics, and how students can be virtuous in their own lives. Over 16,000 teachers have registered for this free resource. Voicesofhistory. Org: this online compendium of bill of rights institute houses over 152 lesson plans from 11 of our resources. Materials include free step-by-step lesson plans, background essays, activities, handouts, and primary sources. Voices of history added 1,814 users in 2017 for a total of 5,873. Elessons: bi-weekly email newsletters including current and historic events lessons sent to over 23,000 unique subscribers.