Overview: This Center for Civic Education program encourages active community participation for students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Project Citizen helps promote responsible and competent participation in state and local government by teaching students to identify problems in their community and work together to develop strategies to remedy these problems through developing and implementing public policy. It helps teachers and students understand how public policy is made and how they can create change in their community. Project Citizen is interdisciplinary, based on cooperative learning, focuses on state and local government, applies students to real public policy issues, develops participatory skills, is an excellent model for performance assessment and an exceptional method for implementing project based learning.

*Completion of this training provides each participant with a free classroom set of text*