Julie Silverbrook – Senior Director of Partnerships and Constitutional Scholar in Residence at iCivics – Talks with Us about iCivics, the Importance of Civics Education, & National Civics Day. This is episode 632 of Teaching Learning Leading K12.

Julie serves as Senior Director of Partnerships and Constitutional Scholar in Residence at iCivics. She served as Executive Director of The Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) in Washington, DC, from 2012-2020. She regularly writes and lectures on the United States Constitution and its history, and the importance of civic education to the health of the American republic. Julie has nearly a decade of experience in growth projects for non-profit organizations, cultivating partnerships, fundraising, coalition-building, and business development and management. She holds a J.D. from the William & Mary Law School, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers Award and the Thurgood Marshall Award and served as a Senior Articles Editor on the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from The George Washington University with a B.A. in Political Science. Upon graduation, she was awarded the GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar Award, the highest academic award given to a student in the arts and sciences college.  

About iCivics:

iCivics is a nonprofit organization working to inspire lifelong civic engagement by providing high-quality and engaging civics resources and advocating for civic education through its CivXNow Coalition of 295 organizational members. Founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to develop free educational video games and lessons that teach young Americans to be knowledgeable, curious, and engaged in civic life, iCivics is the country’s largest provider of civic education content and is currently used by up to 145,000 educators and 9 million students annually. All of its resources are free, nonpartisan, and available online at icivics.org.

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https://www.icivics.org/

https://civxnow.org/

https://www.facebook.com/icivics

https://twitter.com/icivics

https://www.youtube.com/user/icivics

https://www.linkedin.com/company/icivics/

https://nationalcivicsday.info/

https://www.facebook.com/NationalCivicsDay/

https://www.instagram.com/nationalcivicsday

Length – 38:04