New content-based graduate courses at top universities

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We Can and Are Changing K-12 Civic Education through Higher Education
JMC is leveraging our nationwide faculty network to improve professional development for K-12 teachers

In addition to our growing professional development programs for K-12 teachers (offered across ten states so far), we are also expanding unique, content-based graduate courses for secondary-school educators. Unlike the vast majority of advanced education for K-12 teachers, the courses provide the rare opportunity for both in-depth study of the American political tradition and lesson plan development on the topics.

These innovative graduate courses for K-12 teachers have been made possible by generous support from the John Templeton Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, Paula and John Lillard, the Considine Foundation, the Harvey L. Miller Family Foundation, Achelis and Bodman Foundation, and Northern Trust Charitable Trust, along with gifts from other donors.

To date, our partner institutions include the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Virginia, Tufts University (Massachusetts), the City College of New York, Lake Forest College (Illinois), and beginning in 2023, the University of Chicago.

Led by JMC partner professors, the rigorous, discussion-based courses help teachers deepen their understanding of founding ideas and history and to connect the subject matter with civics topics and contemporary issues they discuss in their classrooms.

Adam DeSimone, 8th grade U.S. civics teacher, described how he and other teachers have benefitted from the graduate courses at Tufts University, explaining, "These courses help teachers like me to frame and contextualize the American experience, which is so important for engaging students in the classroom."

Tom Kelly, JMC vice president of civics initiatives, points out the consistent feedback we are receiving from teachers and professors. “Simply put, JMC scholars love teaching these courses, and teachers love taking them." He added that "our goal is to build them into a new inter-institutional master's degree program, which will have a tremendous impact on K-12 students across the nation.”

K-12 teachers are on the front lines of our society, cultivating the next generation of thoughtful, educated citizens.

Yet there are too few opportunities for teachers for serious study of American civics and government, whether through graduate coursework or other kinds of professional development.

In this spirit, the JMC Founding Civics Initiative ([link removed]) was launched in 2016 to bring K-12 teachers the content-based seminars and graduate courses they crave and also make our country's founding principles and history more central in the classroom.
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On October 14, we gathered JMC faculty partners and university administrators in Chicago for the capstone conference on the effects of these new graduate courses designed for teachers. Attendees discussed the impact of courses, expansion in the coming years, and the future development of a consortium master's degree for K-12 teachers.

Since 2016, the Founding Civics Initiative has hosted nearly 120 graduate courses, virtual programs, and seminars for K-12 teachers in 9 states (Illnois, New York, Florida, Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Alabama), which includes our statewide collaboration with the Bill of Rights Institute and Ashbrook Center ([link removed]) to reach half of the social studies teachers in Florida.

We need your support to expand this exciting initiative for teachers. To learn more about these courses and how you can support our work, please visit: jackmillercenter.org/founding-civics-initiative ([link removed]) .
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About the Jack Miller Center
The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. We work to advance the teaching and study of America's history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas and issues arising from the American and Western traditions—all of which continue to animate our national life.

We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.
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