Workshops
The Civic Circle offers after-school workshops at Title 1 schools in Montgomery County. The heart of our program is the seven civic skills we call "steps to democracy" — Listen, Learn, Choose, Join, Speak, Act and Lead. In other words,be a compassionate, informed, engaged citizen. Most of our workshops reach students in Grades 3-5, but in the 2023-24 school year we piloted programs for Middle and High School students, and these will expand in the current school year.
Students in our workshops do Social Studies activities such as mock elections, hear from civically-active older peers such as student government representatives, and work with teaching artists to create and perform their own civic songs, poems and art pieces. Students then showcase their civic art pieces for students in younger grades, advancing peer-to-peer learning and student self-expression. Workshops are led by Civic Circle teachers and by our diverse roster of gifted Civic Circle teaching artists.
