July 14 – 18, 2019
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC

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Online resources, modules, and lesson plans

• The Alliance for Decision Education
• Human​Progress​.org
• National Constitution Center
  • Interactive Constitution
  • Interactive Constitution: The First Amendment Project
  • Constitutional Conversations: An Initiative for Constitutional Education and Civil Dialogue

Presentations

• Debt/​GDP Chart (PPT) by Jeffrey Miron
• What is a Civil Society? (PPT) by Tom G. Palmer
• Human​Progress​.org (PPT) by Chelsea Follett
• The Contemporary Emergence of Populism (PPT) by Tom G. Palmer

Books and Reports

• Divided Nation, Divided Politics: Hyperconflict in the Trump Era by Darrell M. West
• Fredrick Douglass: Self Made Man by Timothy Sandefur
• Economic Freedom of the World Report by James Gwartney, Robert Lawson, and Joshua Hall
• Economics and Free Markets: An Introduction by Howard Baetjer
• Freedom in the 50 States by William Ruger and Jason Sorens
• Human Freedom Index 2018 by Ian Vásquez and Tanja Porcnik
• The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America’s Poor by Michael Tanner
• The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by David Boaz
• Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care by Charles Silver and David Hyman
• Supreme Court Review
• The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides by Arnold Kling

Teacher Lesson Plans

• Key Concepts Sphere Summit 2019
• Threshold Concept
• Sphere World Key Concepts 2
• Sphere Concepts
• Understanding Our Rights and Responsibilities in a Republic
• Threshold Concepts for Language Learners
• Sphere Key Concepts in World History
• Middle School Threshold Concepts
• Threshold
• Turing Test
• Threshold Concept
• H.S. English Key Concepts
• Sphere Key Concepts Integration
• Key Concepts in the Classroom
• Sphere Summit Concepts
• APUSH Threshold Concepts
• Summit Tricks and Tips
• AP Seminar Summit Concept Application
• List of Threshold Concepts as Applied to Our Subject Area
• Economics and Civil Discourse
• Threshold Concepts — MS/HS English
• Decision Making / Civil Discourse
• Elementary and Middle School Administrators
• Cato Concepts
• Summit Topics by AP Units
• Political Civility in an Uncivil Age
• First Amendment Limits
• What Is a Hate Crime?
• Individual liberty vs National Security
• Identify Political Bia in the News
• Ideological Bubble
• Speech and Debate and the Three‐​Axes
• Distinguishing Claims and Evidence in Reading Informational Texts
• Building the Foundation: The Ideologies that Ground Us
• What Makes An Effective Argument?
• Guidelines for Discussion
• Political Compass
• Class Pass (Silent Debate)
• Federalists and Anti‐​Federalists: Discourse Without the Duels
• We Can Agree to Disagree
• Six Hats Think Tank
• Pros and Cons of a Uniform Policy
• Harkness Discussion: Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Seeing Measurements
• Political Spectrum
• Political Languages
• Political Polarization Over Time
• Immigration Reform
• Should Immigrants Be Taught in Their Native Language
• Yelling “Fire” in the Theater
• Sphere Summit MS Humanities
• Civil Discourse
• Creating a Contract for Classroom Discussion
• The 1912 Election
• First Amendment and Political Philosophies
• Freedom of Speech
• Decision Making
• Making a Law
• Constitutional Convention‐ A Lesson on Civil Discourse
• Elements of Civil Discourse
• Freedom of Speech/​Dress Code
• Controversial Topics in the News
• Presidential Debate