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Harvard Civics Project

Published on 2/18/2020

DEADLINE TO APPLY IS FEBRUARY 28


THE HARVARD CASE METHOD

This is your opportunity to experience the mastery of an Ivy League school, HARVARD, and empower citizens as they engage in the civic process of democracy.  
Register by FEB 28 as important and required study materials must be downloaded prior to class.  Be sure to give yourself a couple of weeks to be prepared.
Details/Registration: Harvard Case Study Community Session - 3/4/2020  


As part of its mission to expand civic awareness and participation of young voters and community members, Orange County League of Women Voters in partnership with Orange County Schools is offering our first Harvard Case Study Community Session. The Case is James Madison, The Federal Negative, and the Making of the Constitution (1787)


The Harvard Civics Project is an initiative formed (1) to bring case method teaching to high schools and (2) to use this methodology to deepen students’ and community understanding of American Democracy.

Based on the highly successful experience of Harvard Business School and other graduate and professional programs that use case-based teaching, the case method can be employed to strengthen high school education as well, ensuring a more exciting, relevant, and effective experience for students and teachers across a range of subjects. The case method can be especially effective at engaging students with topics in history and democracy, and it presents a unique opportunity to help reverse the broad decline in civic education and civic engagement in the United States. The national media have also pointed to the advantages of this method for engaging students. A Better Way To Teach History

Project cases are based on those outlined in Harvard Business School Professor David Moss’s book, Democracy: A Case Study.

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We are bringing the Harvard Case Method Project here to Orange County with two of our outstanding teachers who traveled to Harvard: Eric Saegebarth, Juvenile Offenders Programmy, and Nicole Larson, Timber Creek High School. The Project provided an all-expenses-paid professional development workshop in August 2019 that focused on preparing these teachers to deliver the History of American Democracy case-method curriculum in their classrooms. 90 teachers sponsored by 50 League of Women Voters’ chapters from 21 states attended this historic Harvard training this summer. Palm Beach and Seminole Leagues will join us in representing Florida to improve civics education in our state. As a satisfied student remarked about the History of American Democracy case-method course, “If this class didn’t make every student in it a better citizen, I don’t know what class would.” 



Project cases are based on those outlined in Harvard Business School Professor David Moss's recent book, Democracy: A Case Study. Click here to watch Professor David A. Moss discuss his book, Democracy: A Case Study.


Register here: Harvard Case Study Community Session - 3/4/2020