K-12
Purdue Summer Civics Institute
The Jack Miller Center is supporting a summer institute for Indiana middle and high school social studies teachers, hosted by the Cornerstone Institute for Civic Thought and the Program on American Institutional Renewal at Purdue University.
Participants in this institute will explore the principles, ideas, and thinkers at the heart of the American political tradition through a study of primary sources led by leading scholars. Readings will include the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, correspondence between Jefferson and Madison, and Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
Sessions will be led by Purdue faculty Jesse Crosson, Sebastian Graham, and Logan Strother, as well as Miami University professor Kenlea Barnes and Michigan State professor Jordan Cash. JMC Teacher Education Fellow Danton Kostandarithes will lead a classroom application session on strategies for using primary sources in the classroom.
Participants will receive a $400 stipend for completion of the institute.