TEACHING FOR DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE
  • ABOUT
  • WHY TEACH ELECTIONS & VOTING
  • RESOURCES
    • For Distance Learning
    • Voter Registration
    • Instruction on Elections and Voting
    • Media Literacy
    • Classroom Discussion
    • Action Civics and Experiential Learning
    • Teacher Training, Support, and Resources
  • Growing Voters Commitment
  • Don't Know Where to Start?

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The Teaching for Democracy Alliance is leveraging existing, high quality materials for professional development opportunities for teachers. The alliance was established as a strong collective voice for democratic learning to better equip teachers to ring practical democracy lessons to their students, especially in a tense political year. 

The Alliance is coordinated by CIRCLE, which is part of Tufts University's Tisch College of Civic Life.

Core Principles of the Alliance
  • An informed citizenry is important and can be cultivated early through civic learning, 
  • All students need access to opportunities to learn about core democratic processes like elections and voting, 
  • A variety of high quality and culturally relevant resources are needed to reach all teachers and students, and 
  • It's important for student learning to acknowledge political actors to model democratic practice. 
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​Yet political polarization and structural barriers in many school districts have reduced opportunities for millions of young people to learn about modern democracy. Only 38% of social studies teachers think they would get strong support from their district to teach about an election, and only 28% think parents would strongly support them (Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge, 2013).
 
Let’s teach for democracy. 
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TFDA is coordinated by CIRCLE, a part of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University.
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  • ABOUT
  • WHY TEACH ELECTIONS & VOTING
  • RESOURCES
    • For Distance Learning
    • Voter Registration
    • Instruction on Elections and Voting
    • Media Literacy
    • Classroom Discussion
    • Action Civics and Experiential Learning
    • Teacher Training, Support, and Resources
  • Growing Voters Commitment
  • Don't Know Where to Start?