Want to involve your students in studying their local history? Want to connect your students with students who live someplace dramatically different than they do?
Apply to join the Smithsonian's Democracy in Dialogue Virtual Exchange Program. Designed to support educators working with middle and high school youth, ages 13 - 18, participants will learn how to collaboratively design and lead place-based investigations with students to better understand the stories emanating from your hometown. In cooperation with another community, students can celebrate commonalities and differences.
Educators of all kinds, formal and informal, are the target audience to be a facilitator and are responsible to recruit a minimum of 15 students to participate in the exchange program. Each facilitator receives an honorarium upon the successful completion of the virtual exchange. Continued Education Unit (CEU) professional credit is awarded at the exchange's end too. All costs associated with the training are fully covered.
Democracy in Dialogue is built around semester-long engagements with each exchange lasting between 6 - 8 weeks. It will run from January to May 2025 (20 exchanges led by 40 facilitators). Applications are due by October 4, 2024, 5PM, EST.
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