A Republic if We Can Keep It: Civil discourse in our classrooms & communities

Are you equipped to engage in discourse around the election and other relevant topics of the day, even those that some consider contentious? Can you identify the skills and strategies necessary for people to disagree while avoiding the urge to be disagreeable?

Join Joe Schmidt, author of Civil Discourse: Classroom Conversations for Stronger Communities, as he shares research-based best practices and years of classroom and supervisor experience in laying out a "how to" guide that supports civil discourse and student engagement in the classroom.

During this webinar, he will review how educators need to start planning for civil discourse before the first student enters their classroom and work to align these conversations to relevant topics and skills throughout the year in preparation of the toughest topics that students will face.

This webinar is hosted in partnership with the National Council for Social Studies and is part of the iCivics iCSL program.