CED Curriculum
Our Civically Engaged Districts (CED) Project’s curriculum is a school-based YPAR curriculum developed by our team of graduate students in collaboration with educators and mentors.
We aim to provide teachers with hands-on curriculum and teaching activities that can be easily adapted to fit your classroom needs.
Please click on each stage to access the curriculum!
Students engage in activities that build relationships, establish shared norms, and cultivate trust, listening, and collaboration—creating the conditions for collective civic inquiry.
Through mapping, observation, and dialogue, students explore their communities, surface concerns and assets, and work together to define meaningful, researchable civic questions.
Students learn and practice social research methods as they design tools, identify stakeholders, and gather data from their communities in ethical and responsible ways.
Working with both qualitative and quantitative evidence, students organize, interpret, and make sense of their findings—identifying patterns, themes, and emerging insights.
Students turn research into public knowledge by sharing findings with authentic audiences, developing recommendations, and engaging others around issues that matter.
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We are currently piloting this curriculum and would love to learn from educators and partners. Please share your thoughts, experiences, and suggestions with us here.