Professional Development for Teachers

The Judiciary History Center provides teachers with several opportunities per year to engage in professional development:

School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program

This curriculum, training, and research program is funded through a grant form the Center for Civic Education. Designed to improve students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes, SVPDP provides training opportunities for teacher participants, from both public and private schools, that emphasize civic education, constitutional doctrine, and public policy theory. It also provides research and evaluation of changes in students' civic knowledge and attitude toward authority.

Teachers who participate receive free sets of curriculum and attend multiple two-day workshops with instruction on concepts including authority, justice, privacy, and responsibility.

We the People:  The Citizen and the Constitution

This progam, also funded by the Center for Civic Education, is designed to help teachers enhance their students understanding of the institutions of American constitutional democracy and at the same time discover the contemporary relevance of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Teaching American History

The Center has been selected by the Department of Education to partner in several Teaching American History Grants. In its role as partner, the Center conducts teacher workshops on the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, focusing on such topics as the conflict between the right to privacy and national security, and the separation of church and state.