We are in week two of Project Citizen. Project Citizen is a curricular program that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government. The program helps participants learn how to monitor and influence public policy. In the process, they develop support for democratic values and principles, tolerance, and feelings of political efficacy.
We the People participants will have work in class and very little homework.
Project Citizen
Step 1: After generating a list of problems that impact our community, groups of students choose one to work on. First they find out as much as they can through web searches, document research, and interviews.
Step 2: Students then generate alternative polices to fix the solution, or propose a better ways of enforcing the existing policy.
Step 3: One policy is chosen as the best.
Step 4: An action plan is created. Students identify the steps necessary to bring about change.
Homework: During this project, students will have homework sporadically. Hopefully, the groups will identify what tasks need to be completed by individual members.
