Book Description

Discourse with Direction. This civic engagement handbook provides students with a comprehensive guide to civics, current events, and public policy. We aim to empower students to become future leaders, taking our country's political state in a new direction. This handbook covers a variety of topics, such as how to start a passion project in the field of civics, how to have conversations on difficult topics, and how to lobby legislators to bring critical issues to the forefront. We hope that students will become more interested in government after reading this book! Written by The Education Department at The Institute for Youth in Policy, we take a by students, for students approach to civics education. Currently, we're working on an eight unit civics education curriculum, spanning topics ranging from climate change to social welfare policy; we presented this curriculum at the 2023 National Advanced Placement Conference hosted by the College Board in Seattle, Washington. We aim to spark meaningful conversations amongst students and break down political polarization. Our long term goal is to get our work in the hands of students, teachers, and classrooms, and we are currently pursuing goal through partnering with education organizations such as Marco Learning and UWorld College Prep in order to connect with a network of teachers.