{"id":3019,"date":"2016-07-14T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jrcnyc.org\/wordpress\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2017-01-09T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T15:36:31","slug":"we-the-people-teachers-summer-institute-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/2016\/07\/14\/we-the-people-teachers-summer-institute-2\/","title":{"rendered":"James Madison Legacy Project Teachers’ Summer Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 8, 2016 –\u00a0 \u00a0Middle and High school teachers from NYC and Albany attended a five day professional development summer institute at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse. As part of a US Dept. of Ed\u2019s James Madison Legacy grant, teachers participated in outstanding sessions facilitated by scholars ( federal judges and law professors) based on the civic education materials, “We The People: The Citizen & The Constitution.” Teachers were assigned expert “We The People” Mentors to assist with implementation of a mock court hearing.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

Federal judges and law professors presented\u00a0 topics on the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.\u00a0 The judges included: Honorable \u00a0Reena Raggi & Gerad E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of N.Y , Judge Paul Oetken, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of N.Y. , Judge Joseph Bianco of the U.S. District for the Southern District of N.Y. and Magistrate Judge James Francis IV. The law Professors included: Chris Riano of Columbia University, \u00a0Jeffrey Morris of Touro Law School, \u00a0Steve Gilles & Martin Margulies\u00a0of Quinnipiac Law School ,Myriam Gilles & Julie C. Suk of Cardozo Law School \u00a0, Aaron Saiger & Benjamin Zipursky of Fordham Law School \u00a0and Emily Gold Waldman of Pace Law School .\u00a0 Judges\u00a0 D’Agostino, Moses, Peck, Trust, Maas and Stewart presided over a mock court hearing on the final day. All of this was made possible by Chief Judge Robert Katzmann.<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n

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July 8, 2016 –\u00a0 \u00a0Middle and High school teachers from NYC and Albany attended a five day professional development summer institute at the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse. As part of a US Dept. of Ed\u2019s James Madison Legacy grant, teachers participated in outstanding sessions facilitated by scholars ( federal judges and law professors) based on the … Continue reading “James Madison Legacy Project Teachers’ Summer Institute”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,5,11,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019"}],"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=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrcnyc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}