Join educators, administrators, and schools across the country energizing the movement for civic learning! Civic Learning Week (March 11–15) highlights civic learning as a nationwide priority for sustaining and strengthening our constitutional democracy with in-person and virtual events nationwide.

Featured Conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett will join the Civic Learning Week National Forum on March 12, 2024, livestreamed from Washington, D.C. Showcasing the Justices’ shared commitment to high-quality civic education, the featured conversation will be moderated by Eric Liu, co-founder and CEO of Citizen University, and address student questions about the judicial system and civic engagement, as well as the Justices’ legal career paths. The discussion will highlight the civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions gained through civic education, and why civics is essential to sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States.

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What is Civic Learning Week?

Civic Learning Week brings together students, educators, policymakers, and leaders in the public and private sectors to highlight and further energize the movement for civic education in states and communities across the nation.

Our Why

Civic education is essential to ensuring each and every person across this country is equipped with the necessary tools to engage as members of our self-governing society. We know that the best civic learning happens both in and outside of the classroom, and is a lifelong endeavor touching every facet of society. 

In order to underscore the need to prioritize civic learning across the country, Civic Learning Week highlights the civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions that provide the foundation for an informed and engaged populace, sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States. 

Goals of Civic Learning Week

• Providing elementary and secondary school students with positive and engaging civic learning opportunities;
• Engaging the public around the importance of civic learning and elevating it as a national priority;
• Providing a mechanism for educators, students, coalition partners, business leaders, and other community members to connect at the local level and beyond around a shared commitment to civic education.

Who Can Participate in Civic Learning Week?

Everybody! Civic learning happens both inside and outside of the classroom. 

• Educators can gain and provide insight and inspiration, sharing the latest effective teaching practices and innovations, and joining in shared civic learning opportunities throughout the week. 
  • Classroom teachers are at the heart of civic learning. Whether it’s modeling democratic norms in how classrooms operate, engaging students in civil debate, discussing current events, or demonstrating the multidisciplinary nature of civics by incorporating it across subject areas, civic learning is at the heart of education in the United States.
  • School leaders have the opportunity to ensure civic learning happens across the school, integrating it across all grade levels and subject areas, as well as in the very way the school operates.
  • District and state leaders have the opportunity to connect civic learning throughout students’ educational experience, across schools, and with the larger community, ensuring each and every student has a strong foundation of civic learning as a lifelong endeavor.
• Students have the opportunity to engage in shared civic learning experiences with other students across the nation throughout the week and beyond.
• Community members are able to participate in a number of events highlighting the importance of civic learning and the key role different groups play in ensuring high-quality civic education is accessible for each and every student across the nation.

iCivics is the managing partner of Civic Learning Week, which is further supported by A More Perfect Union; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Microsoft; More Perfect; National Archives and National Archives Foundation; and National Council for the Social Studies.