K-12
Symposium for Teachers at Florida State: Understanding and Teaching America’s Founding Principles
The Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University is hosting a symposium in Tallahassee for middle and high school social studies teachers, with the support of the Jack Miller Center.
The symposium aims to empower teachers with deeper content knowledge and practical classroom strategies. It will feature scholar-led, primary source-focused discussions on constitutional compromise, the First Amendment, abolition and civil rights, and civic virtue. Discussion leaders will include Professors Jeremy Bailey (University of Oklahoma), Luke Sheahan (Duquesne University), and Rachel Ferguson (Concordia University Chicago).
Dr. James Shuls from the Institute for Governance and Civics will lead an application session on incorporating the primary sources discussed throughout the symposium into teachers’ own classrooms and lessons. American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow and Vertex Partnership Academies CEO Ian Rowe will give a keynote address on the role of virtue in education.
Meals will be provided and participants will receive a $250 stipend for completion of the symposium. Hotel accommodations will be provided for teachers traveling from outside the Tallahassee area.