If you're at SXSW EDU, join me and my esteemed colleagues today at 2:30. As a former social studies teacher and current leader of Mikva Challenge I'm honored to have been asked to discuss this timely and important topic. #sxsw2024 #Democracyisaverb
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Love this! Our Project Soapbox speakers are big deals! Thanks, Dr Yvette Stewart for supporting the students!

Our CEO Vernee Green personally invites you to our upcoming annual #democracyisaverb benefit! Visit this link to view the invitation video: bit.ly/MikvaBenefitIn…

Thanks to the NYCDOE and Jenna Ryall for being great partners. The student speeches were captivating and we adults need to listen and take action.

Last year, more than 2,200 high school and college students stepped up to serve as election judges and coordinators, the highest in the nation, in large part thanks to Mikva Challenge!

we need a 3 day weekend:
1 for errands
1 for social activities
1 for staying in bed like we’ve got some Victorian wasting disease

Some recommendations included improving transparency in changes to the Chicago Public Schools student code of conduct and introducing a mini-curriculum with lessons related to police reform efforts. bit.ly/3D1jufi

Recently, CPS Student Advisory Council met w/ Helena Swanson-Nystrom & Veronica Galindo (Dept of Curriculum, Instruction & Digital Learning) about incorporating student feedback in the district's Curriculum Equity Initiative #YouthReshapingDemocracy CPS - Chicago Public Schools CPS Dept of Student Voice & Engagement

To support & amplify youth leaders we have launched a 100-day national campaign: #YouthReshapingDemocracy , to spotlight youth who are informing & reshaping their communities & the nation. Follow along & be inspired #YouthPriorities #YouthReshapingDemocracy bit.ly/39i8E7Z

Please take a moment and listen to the messages that Mikva Challenge youth from across the country have for the new administration. #youthpriorities #youthreshapingdemocracy

So many of us were SO inspired by the words of Amanda Gorman at today's inauguration. Here is a lesson we created today at Mikva Challenge to help teachers spur conversation and ACTION using her powerful words as a starting point. Please share! docs.google.com/document/d/1RG…

Listen to our youth!

Our #YouthPriorities campaign asks young people to speak out on what issue they want action on in the first 100 days of the new administration & Congress. One of these powerful youth voices comes from Donshannay, who advocates for access to healthcare.

The events of this week reaffirm the centrality and urgency of Mikva Challenge's mission to train young people to be the informed, empowered and active civic leaders who are building a more just and equitable society: tinyurl.com/BuildingAStron…

Stop saying this is unreal when it was completely predictable.

I'm going to tell my kids this is Captain America.

'The country only works if everyone shows up and Mikva is a way of getting everyone to show up.' Please join
Mikva Challenge in supporting the young people in our communities. It only takes one person to make a life-changing impact. Be that person today - tinyurl.com/ydzack69

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Our own Vernee Green has the opportunity to be on a panel on Elevating Equity in Civic Education with our friends at Generation Citizen, iCivics, and MSU at SXSW EDU. But in order to be chosen to present, we need your votes! Today is the last day: panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/108665