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Join your fellow Teacher Advisory Council (TAC) teachers from across the country and engage with ideologically diverse constitutional scholars during a virtual three-day workshop on the Voting Rights Amendments with the National Constitution Center in July 2021. This workshop is open exclusively to members of the National Constitution Center’s Teacher Advisory Council.

During the virtual workshop, TAC members will work with content experts to deepen their understanding of the 14th Amendment, why it was added to the Constitution and its impact since its ratification. With teacher facilitators and the education team from the Center, participants discover and develop innovative, nonpartisan ways to make the content relevant to their students.

Our approach has three main components: (1) building a historical foundation through storytelling; (2) learning how to interpret the Constitution like a constitutional lawyer; and (3) developing the skills of civil dialogue and reflection.

First, we build a strong foundation by telling the Constitution’s founding stories and exploring how the 14th Amendment and the rights it includes have changed over time.

Second, we explore how to help your students separate their political views from their constitutional views—asking not what the government should do, but what it constitutionally may do—by working with the Center’s master teachers in collaborative classroom application sessions and engaging directly with the text of the Constitution.

Finally, we review civil dialogue protocols and resources developed by the Center—by presenting the best arguments on all sides of each constitutional issue, providing helpful educational resources, and offering platforms to support civil discourse within the classroom and across the country.

The virtual workshop will emphasize the National Constitution Center’s Interactive Constitution, the Constitution 101 curriculum, and other resources from the Center to explore changing historical and constitutional examples of the rights enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment.

The virtual workshop is open to all educators who are members of the Center’s Teacher Advisory Council. The workshop is free to attend, but a successful application is required.

Applications for this Workshop are now closed. Notification regarding application status will be sent by Friday, March 24, 2023.

Questions can be sent to Sarah Harris at sharris@constitutioncenter.org.