January 24th-25th 2020
YSCA met with educators at the Texas Law-Related Education Annual Conference to promote our 2020 Campaign for Civility to Social Studies teachers from across the Great State of Texas!
Strategies
Training young people (and the adults who work with them) to promote strategies in:
Recent Activity
November 2019
We will be at the National Council of Social Studies Annual Conference, soaking up the amazing speakers and networking with groups that are focused on civics education (because civics educators and social studies scholars are, quite simply, some of the MOST interesting people on the planet)!
October 2019
In October, we kicked off our upcoming 2020 Campaign for Civility (c) and also spent time working in Houston, collaborating with educators from Houston ISD and Spring ISD!
It’s that time again!?
It is hard to reconcile the fact that it is already time for another election. Did the last election really end? Did we ever come together as a country after the 2016 election and move forward together as a nation? I would posit, No. The last 3 years have been ugly. Now people are starting […]
September 2019
YSCA has been busy sharing its mission and putting our resources into the hands of many small-town Texas teachers from places like Pharr, Point Isabel, Monte Alto, and Brownsville.
Presenting YSCA’s Mission to Texas Educators
July 16, 2019YSCA was invited to present in Austin to 20 teachers from around the state who were attending the Teachers Traffic Safety Academy, hosted by the Texas Municipal Courts Education Center and Driving on the Right Side of the Road. Our Director shared YSCA’s Campaign for Civility and several teachers and curriculum coordinators have […]
YSCA awards Ron and Brad Dunn Memorial Scholarship to Arub A.
“Happy Independence Day! YSCA awards Ron and Brad Dunn Memorial Scholarship to Arub A. who is attending UTD and studying Political Science; Read an excerpt of Arub’s thoughts on Civility in a Democracy below:” In America, the term “democracy” is often defined as a system of government in which the people are represented through elected […]
2019 Congressional Baseball Game
Even Congress benefits from good sportsmanship!!! It was an honor to attend the annual Congressional baseball game for charity and to spend a few days in DC collaborating with one of our Board Members! Our MVP awards go to Steve Scalise and Colin Allred from TX!