{"id":2438,"date":"2015-06-02T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrcnyc.org\/wordpress\/?p=2438"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:46:00","slug":"2438","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/2015\/06\/02\/2438\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Educators Complete Project Citizen PD Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>May 27, 2015 &#8211;\u00a0<\/em>The Project Citizen Professional Development (PD) Series is for teachers who are new to Project Citizen and would like to bring the program to their classrooms. The four-part Saturday series (Feb-May, makeup date is on June 6) took educators step-by-step in learning how to implement the program, engage students, and use teaching strategies and resources. PDs were led by veteran Project Citizen teachers with over a decade of program experience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jrcnycorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/pc_teacherpd_cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jrcnyc.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PC_TeacherPD_cropped-300x115.jpg\" alt=\"PC_TeacherPD_cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Project Citizen is designed to engage students of all ages in the research and design of a public policy in their school or community. After choosing a local public policy issue, students identify a problem with the policy, research alternative policies, create and propose their own policy solution and design an action plan to implement their proposal. In the end, students create a four-part display board with each of the above features as well as compile a literacy-based portfolio binder that documents their research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jrcnycorg.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/pclogo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2287 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/jrcnycorg.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/pclogo.png\" alt=\"pclogo\" width=\"265\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Project Citizen complements the 5th, 7th, and 8th grade social studies curricula. All materials are aligned to the Common Core standards. Upon successful completion of a \u201cProject Citizen\u201d portfolio, students participated in a school-level showcase. School-level winners will have the opportunity to participate in a nationwide showcase event in July. Purchase of the program included a professional development session that trained new teachers in the implementation of \u201cProject Citizen\u201d as well as a class set of 30 student texts and a teacher\u2019s guide.\u00a0 The cost of the program is $700, and was free for the teachers who participated in the PD series. Please click <a title=\"Project Citizen (PC) Elementary\/Middle Schools\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jrcnyc.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=84\">here <\/a>for more program information.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested or have questions about the program, please contact Carolyn Morway: <a href=\"mailto:cmorway@schools.nyc.gov\">cmorway@schools.nyc.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Article written by Valerie Kornitchouk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 2015 &#8211;\u00a0The Project Citizen Professional Development (PD) Series is for teachers who are new to Project Citizen and would like to bring the program to their classrooms. The four-part Saturday series (Feb-May, makeup date is on June 6) took educators step-by-step in learning how to implement the program, engage students, and use teaching &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/2015\/06\/02\/2438\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NYC Educators Complete Project Citizen PD Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}