July 13–15 2020
Online Seminar
Hosted by the Cato Institute
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Lesson Plans and Resources
- HumanProgress.org
- Bill of Rights Institute
- Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness—Overview
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- 3 Steps to Healthy Discourse in the Classroom
- 4 Things You Can’t Say in the Classroom
- Civil Discourse Statement
- Debate Activity Kit
- Developmental Readiness and Classroom Debates
- Disagreement Pyramid
- Election Lesson
- Election Lesson Plan
- Free Speech Comics
- “Good Faith” vs. “Bad Faith” Arguments or Discussions
- Managing the Classroom Climate
- Teaching Healthy Discourse
- National Constitution Center
- CLASSROOM EXCHANGES for Civic Dialogue
- Constitutional Ambassadors Program
- Constitutional Conversations: An Initiative for Constitutional Education and Civil Dialogue
- Constitutional Conversations Using Classroom Exchanges
- Federalism: Where Is It in the Constitution?
- Interactive Constitution
- Interactive Constitution in the Classroom
- Interactive Constitution: Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure
- Interactive Constitution: The First Amendment Project
- Lesson Plans
- Stossel in the Classroom
- Words and Numbers
- iCivics Games
- iCivics Teachers
- izzit.org
- The Better Arguments Project
- OpenMind Platform
- All Minus One
- Heterodox Academy Resources for K‑12 Educators
- Sample of Classroom Norms
- The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed
- Collateral Consequences: Protecting Public Safety or Encouraging Recidivism?
- Four Ways the Executive Branch Can Advance Mens Rea Reform
- Heritage Explains: Overcriminalization
- The Extent of America’s Overcriminalization Problem
- Webinar: Prevent This Tragedy: Meaningful and Sensible Approaches to Police Reform
Presentations
- What’s Going on with Gen‐Z and Civil Discourse? — Jonathan Haidt
- Heterodox Academy Overview — Debra Mashek
- Free Speech and Civil Discourse in the Classroom — Bill of Rights Institute
- Mentimeter Responses — Bill of Rights Institute
- What is Civil Society? — Tom G. Palmer
- HumanProgress.org — Chelsea Follett
- Promote Critical Thinking and Engaging Classroom Discussion — Stossel in the Classroom
- Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Education — Grace Kiboko, Lynn Moody, and Kelly Young
Podcasts
- An Overdue Pardon for the ‘Groveland Four’ — Gilbert King
- Three Felonies a Day — Henry Silverglate
- Cardiac Arrest: Five Heart‐Stopping Years as a CEO on the Feds’ Hit‐List — Howard Root
- Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration — Rachel Elise Barkow
- The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South — Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
Books
- Cardiac Arrest: Five Heart‐Stopping Years as a CEO On the Feds’ Hit‐List by Howard Root and Stephen Saltarelli
- Pirates, Prisoners, and Lepers: Lessons from Life Outside the Law by Paul H. Robinson and Sarah M. Robinson
- Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela Davis
- Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration by Rachel Elise Barkow
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re‐Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re‐Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
- Three Felonies a Day by Hwney Silverglate
- The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South by Radley Balko and Tuckwe Carrington
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander