Constitutional Workshop

Being an American: Teaching the Founding Documents and Supporting English Language-Learners

Los Angeles, CA
February 7, 2013

The Bill of Rights Institute is hosting a free one-day workshop entitled Being an American: Teaching the Founding Documents and Supporting English Language-Learners. At this free one-day seminar, you will discover resources to help engage your students with the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the purposes of a national government.  Join the Bill of Rights Institute for a free one-day workshop which will provide you with easy-to-implement resources to bring these concepts alive, as well as provide new methods to teach these topics to English language-learners with our new ELL supplement.

This workshop is for U.S. History, Government, Civics and Social Studies teachers and will help meet numerous California state standards.

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Program Details:

  • Program Location: Riverside Unified School District, Nutritional Center
    6050 Industrial Avenue Riverside, California 92504. Our workshop will be held in the first floor training room. Google Map It.
  • Parking available free of charge in the adjacent lot
  • The workshop begins at 8:30 A.M. with registration and breakfast, and concludes at 3:30 P.M.
  • A complete agenda for the day is located here.

Participants will:

  • Use student-friendly activities to analyze ways in which the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights illustrate our most important civic values.
  • Receive a FREE copy of Being an American: Exploring the Ideals that Unite Us, High School Edition and Being an American: Exploring the Ideals that Unite Us, ELL Supplement.
  • Participate in engaging lessons that will help your students analyze the Founding documents.
  • Analyze real-world scenarios that illustrate the enduring significance of the Bill of Rights and its limits on government.
  • Gain new techniques for teaching these concepts to English language-learners.
  • Receive a Professional Development certificate for 6 seat hours.

This Bill of Rights Institute Constitutional Workshop will help teachers address one or more of the Common Core Standards shown here.

For questions, please contact Laura Vlk at: events@BillofRightsInstitute.org or at 703-894-1776.