Sphere Summit: Teaching Civic Culture Together
Sphere Summit: Teaching Civic Culture Together
July 14–18, 2019
Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC
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Online resources, modules, and lesson plans
Presentations
- Debt/GDP Chart (PPT) by Jeffrey Miron
- What is a Civil Society? (PPT) by Tom G. Palmer
- HumanProgress.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 Hyma
- 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
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