The James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship has as its mission to assume a national leadership role in preparing new generations of American citizens. The focus is to provide programs, institutes, activities and resources for educators to implement more powerful citizenship programs and opportunities that result in active student involvement in schools and communities.
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News
Elementary school teachers are participating in the summer institute "Creating Content-Rich Instruction for the 90-Minute reading block" sponsored and conducted by the Ackerman Center. For more information follow the link to news artcile about the institute here.
Elementary School students discussing the Constitution at We the People showcase coordinated and sponsored by the Ackerman Center. To read more please click here.
Project Citizen Workshops are available! Would like to schedule FREE workshops at your school, organization? Contact Dr. Asta Balkute at abalkute@purdue.edu for scheduling.
The Ackerman center together with Curriculum and Instruction Department (College of Education, Purdue University) faculty received a synergy grant for the 2012-2013 study, titled "Understanding Adolescent Civic Identity through a Community Problem-Based Project." The purpose of this study is to investigate the civic identity of youth from marginalized populations, as they participate in a community problem-based project using mixed methods approach. The findings of this study will contribute to the literature and assist Oakland High School (Lafayette School Coorporation, Indiana) in their curricular choices. Data collection will start Fall 2012. For more information please contact Dr. Asta Balkute at abalkute@purdue.edu.
James F. Ackerman Center and CLEAR (Center for Literacy Education and Research)
hosted the Summer Institute 2013
"Creating Content-Rich Intruction for the 90-Minute Reading Block"
for K-5 teachers.
Read more.
Events
June 3-7, 2013
Summer institute "Creating Content-Rich Instruction for the 90-Minute Reading Block" takes place for the second year in a row. Teachers are exploring social studies content using children's books and integrated that content into the 90-minute reading block, which is a reading workshop required in elementary schools.
February 7, 2013
Charles Best, founder of Donorschoose.org (http://www.donorschoose.org/), will be the speaker in the Purdue Series on Corporate Citizenship and Ethics (co-sponsored by the Ackerman Center and the Krannert School of Management). Donorschoose.org is a very popular philanthropy portal through which donors can choose specific projects to support, including projects of classroom teachers. The talk is at 7 pm in Fowler Hall (STEW) and is free and open to the public, so I would hope you could share this information with your students and with local teachers. A flyer can be found here.
December 6, 2012
Second Project Citizen Showcase at Purdue University. Oakland High School, Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University students showcasing proposed policies to solve public policy issues. Read here about the showcase.
September 17, 2012
Purdue University Celebrates Constitution Day. The Ackerman Center is the coordinator of this public event which will be held at Purdue Memorial Union, room 118 at 10am-3pm. For more information please visit website of Purdue's Constitution Day.
April 19, 2012
Second Project Citizen Showcase at Purdue University. Oakland High School, Ivy Tech Community College and Purdue University students showcasing proposed policies to solve public policy issues. Read here about the showcase.
The James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship offers a variety of programs for educators, students and the community.
