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The Constitution in the Classroom

CALLING ALL CLASSROOM VOLUNTEERS!

ACS is pleased to announce the expansion of one of our signature programs: Constitution in the Classroom!

Our expanded Fall 2008 Constitution in the Classroom project will involve a national volunteer effort, placing ACS volunteers in classrooms across the country. All you have to do is sign up!

ACS will help volunteers find a classroom and provide them with grade-specific lesson plans.

We have already reached 2,405 students though our efforts around Law Day this past Spring. Help us double that number by volunteering to teach a class this September in observance of Constitution Day (September 17th).


Get Involved

If you are interested in participating in Constitution in the Classroom, either by volunteering in a classroom or becoming a Project Coordinator to implement an effort on behalf of your local ACS chapter, please sign up online HERE, or email us at classroom@acslaw.org.

Washington, D.C. area volunteers, please sign up online HERE, or email Rita Siemion at ritasiemion@gmail.com or Andrew Owens at apowens@gmail.com.

For more information about Constitution in the Classroom, please email us at classroom@acslaw.org.


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ACS Releases New Materials in Honor of Constitution Day 2007

In honor of Constitution Day, a federally recognized day celebrating the United States Constitution, ACS announces the release of a new lesson for the Consitution in the Classroom project. This year's lesson plan celebrates the 40th anniversary of In Re Gault, the seminal Supreme Court decision in which juveniles were granted the protections of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. The complete lesson plan can be downloaded here: Juvenile Rights Lesson Plan.

According to Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), sponsor of the statute authorizing Constitution Day, "Without constant study and renewal of our knowledge of the Constitution and its history we are in peril of allowing our freedoms to erode. If we fail to understand the importance of the checks and balances between Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Branch, we will not be in a position to know when these checks are threatened."

Constitution Day 2006

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September 17th, 2006 was Constitution Day, a federally recognized day celebrating the United States Constitution. Under Constitution Day's authorizing statute, schools receiving federal funds are required to hold a program educating their students about the Constitution.

Several schools met this mandate by inviting ACS members to teach a lesson on Constitutional Law as part of ACS' Constitution in the Classroom Project. This ongoing project provides lawyers and law students with resources to plan lessons which they can teach in middle school, high school and undergraduate classrooms.

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