The Civic Challenge is Here!

This week, we invite you to help us promote democracy and student success.

This challenge is twofold.

First, we invite you to support our program so we can continue helping students learn the seven civic skills we call "steps to democracy." These are civility (Listen!), news literacy (Learn!), voting (Choose!), service-learning (Join!), advocacy (Speak!), and public service (Lead!). 

Second, we invite you to share a sentence or two, or your favorite poem, song, quotation or image, on why these seven "steps to democracy" matter to you. We invite you to answer this question:

“What strategies help you bridge the divide when engaging with someone whose views differ sharply from your own?”

Please reply on one of our social media channels, or at info@theciviccircle.org. And don't forget to contribute! At a time of cuts to the arts, humanities, education and youth services, your support matters more than ever!

The Civic Challenge

The Civic Circle empowers students students to understand and participate in democracy through music and the arts.

The Civic Circle launched in 2018 to empower low-income students with civic skills, lift youth voices through the arts, and close a well-documented equity gap in civic learning and engagement.

Since then, we’ve reached more than 5,000 underserved students with our after-school workshops, assembly shows and community civic events. The heart of our program is seven civic skills we call “steps to democracy”— Listen, Learn, Choose, Join, Speak, Act and Lead. In other words, be a compassionate, informed, engaged citizen.

Civic learning correlates to better school performance, and college and career readiness. Students in our programs do Social Studies and service-learning activities, and work with teaching artists to create and perform their own civic songs, poems, and art pieces. Along the way they build literacy, confidence, self-expression, and social and emotional skills.

Our innovative, multicultural program equips students with the civic skills they will need to become voters and leaders in their communities, a mission that is increasingly crucial both for student achievement, and for our success as a democratic society. For more information, please contact info@theciviccircle.org, or visit www.theciviccircle.org.

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I proudly support The Civic Circle to promote democracy NOW and to preserve democracy for our children and grandchildren!

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