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An engaging panel discussion with innovative civics educators from across the country inspiring young bridge builders and fostering a culture of our shared humanity in classrooms, communities, and beyond. Participants heard from panelists’ stories and leave with new ideas to implement at your school! Kent Lenci of Middle Ground School Solutions will moderate the event.
How do we break through demonization and division, so prevalent in our time, and ensure a promising future for our country? The flourishing, functional constitutional democracy of tomorrow requires that today’s students develop the bridge-building skills and dispositions that will equip them to collaborate across different perspectives.
This event was for public, private, and charter school teachers, school administrators, librarians, homeschoolers, parents of K-12 students, PTA/PTO groups, and anyone interested in learning about practical, creative approaches to bridging divides through education.
Kent Lenci taught, coached, and occupied several leadership positions during the twenty years he spent as a middle school educator. In 2019 he left the classroom to found Middle Ground School Solutions, which helps prepare today’s students to ease tomorrow’s political polarization. Kent has created curriculum and programming for the Better Arguments Project, Courageous Rhode Island, and the National Week of Conversation, and he has worked with schools and school associations across the country to help educators navigate the complexities of political polarization. He is a recipient of various honors, including the Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award from Facing History and Ourselves and the NAIS Teacher of the Future designation. Kent earned his Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching from Harvard University, and he is the author of Learning To Depolarize: Helping Students and Teachers Reach Across Lines of Disagreement.
The Prohuman Educator Grant is an integral part of this signature event for NWOC, as well as Civic Learning Week.
The Prohuman Foundation recognizes the vital role of educators in civil society. We want to support teachers. In connection with the ListenFirst Project through the National Week of Conversation and Civic Learning Week, we are introducing a new Prohuman Educator Grant opportunity. This particular grant offering is available to any K-12 civics educator in the United States seeking support for mission-aligned educational initiatives focused on civic and bridge-building activities.
Prohuman Educator Grants of up to $500 are available to support school, classroom, and/or community activities that accomplish the following three goals:
The application window is now open. Applications will be accepted through March 31, 2024 and grants will be awarded at the beginning of April.
All of the information about the current grant offering is available here.
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