A major initiative of the Alliance for Representative Democracy is professional training seminars for educators. The Alliance brings together teams of two master teachers and a civic education coordinator from each state for a professional development seminar in Washington, D.C. During the seminar they learn about representative democracy from scholars and experts in the field. The participants also receive training on all of the products of the Representative Democracy in America project. These educators will now provide training and materials to 100 of their peers in their own states. As a result, approximately 5,200 teachers will be better prepared to bring the study of our legislative institutions to nearly 380,000 students each year.

 

Objectives of the RDA Professional Development Initiative

• To train coordinators and master teachers in the curricular materials produced as part of the Representative Democracy in America project
• To assist state teams in developing action plans for staate and local workships, designed to enable teachers to use RDA materials in their classrooms 

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Seminar Resources

How Americans View Their Democracy

PowerPoint Presentation by Karl Kurtz, NCSL

 

Summary of session with U.S. House and Senate Historians

Imagine if in Baseball the Home Team Could Write the Rules for Each Game
by Karl Kurtz, NCSL

Video Presentations