The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) Roadmap reflects a bold vision to re-imagine and re-prioritize civics and history education, emphasizing an interdisciplinary, inquiry-based K-12 Roadmap and Pedagogy Companion. NCSS and its membership have played a central role in the developing the EAD Roadmap and leading professional development on using it to revitalize a civic mission of K-12 education.
Collected here are resources from recent NCSS conferences, webinars and publications on the EAD Roadmap.
The Educating for American Democracy initiative introduces an inquiry framework, or roadmap, organized around themes and questions to advance excellence in civic and history education.
The recently launched Educating for American Democracy (EAD) Roadmap reflects an awareness of how institutions, including our legal system, have shaped and defined multiple narratives of the American story. Almost every EAD theme has a legal connection to the law, providing an effective means for student engagement. The author demonstrates how each theme might be incorporated within classrooms using a legal perspective.
Toxic civic dialogue? Insurrection? Decline of democracy? America needs quality civic and history education more than ever. NCSS has been a lead supporter and partner in the development of Educating for American Democracy, an initiative that promises a greater emphasis on civic and history education that is powerful, interdisciplinary, and inquiry-based.
