Project Citizen
Project Citizen is a portfolio based civic education program for grades 5-12. It helps teachers and students understand public policy and use this information to create change in their community thereby empowering them and their teachers. Click here to read Project Citizen historical information, advisory committee members, supporting organizations and past state champions.
Project Citizen:
- Is interdisciplinary
- Is based on cooperative learning
- Is an excellent model for performance assessment
- Is an excellent method for implementing project based learning
- Focuses on state and local government
- Applies student learning to real public policy issues that concern them Develops participatory skills
The Foundation is a partner in Project Civil Discourse, a statewide collaboration promoting civil discourse in 2008.
Project Citizen is one of several programs planned as part of Project Civil Discourse that convey the the importance of civility, the critical role of civil discourse in resolving policy issues, and the role in resolving challenges facing Arizona and our Nation.
Project Citizen News
Film Your Project Citizen Issue - An Online Video Competition!
Project Citizen is proof that young people can offer fresh and innovative perspectives on problem-solving in their communities.
The Center for Civic Education invites Project Citizen students to participate in Film Your Issue—an online video competition that highlights solutions proposed by young people to contemporary problems. The Center’s Project Citizen program is collaborating with the What’s Your Issue Foundation and its Film Your Issue program to take youth civic engagement online.
Young adults from ages 14 to 24 are invited to produce and upload a three-minute video and a one-page text describing a problem in their community and their proposed solution to that problem. The problem should be related to one of the following “front-burner” issues: the environment, the economic recession, education, health and healthcare, human rights, equal rights, national security and defense, poverty, public service, and technology.
The deadline for submissions is April 19, 2010, with winners announced in May. Winning submissions to the Film Your Issue competition will be presented to senior officials of President Barack Obama’s administration, highlighted on the What’s Your Issue iTunes Channel, and presented at an awards ceremony co-hosted by Sony Pictures in Los Angeles. Winners will be featured at the Center for Civic Education’s National Project Citizen Showcase at the Legislative Summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Find more info here: http://www.civiced.org/index.php?page=film_your_pc
Project Citizen students making a difference!
Check out this article on www.azcentral.com to learn about Project Citizen students from Mesa's Rhodes Jr. High!