The Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy: Making K-12 History and Civic Learning Meaningful

What do you get when you ask 300 educators and academic experts, all across the political spectrum, what “excellence in teaching history and civics” really looks like? You get the Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy, a set of key themes, questions, challenges, and pedagogical principles that guide us on our way to best practices K-12 in history and civics. 

The Roadmap helps us to think about how to make history and civic learning and dialogue rigorous and accessible for all students in the United States, how to cultivate students’ civic identity and sense of responsibility, and how to support students as they learn to act in a responsible and informed manner as citizens. In this course, participants will engage deeply with the Roadmap, drawing on its guidance as they (re)design lesson plans and teaching materials.