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Generation Citizen Public Testimony on New York State Education Budget

Members of the Joint Budget Elementary and Secondary Education Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit budget testimony on behalf of Generation Citizen about the New York State Fiscal Year 2021 Education budget. Generation Citizen (“GC”) is a decade-old national nonprofit dedicated to bringing civics education back into the classroom through a new, engaging… Continue reading Generation Citizen Public Testimony on New York State Education Budget

Reflections and Recommendations for The Civics Education Field: Strengths, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Prepared by Scott Warren, Co-Founder, Generation Citizen, and Departing CEO Overview: For the past ten and a half years, I have served as the CEO of Generation Citizen (GC). GC has established itself as one of the largest and pre-eminent actors in the civics education field, leading programmatic work across the country, and developing a… Continue reading Reflections and Recommendations for The Civics Education Field: Strengths, Challenges, and the Road Ahead

Partisan Takes Won’t Define Nonpartisan Action Civics

By Amy Curran, OK Executive Director, and Scott Warren, CEO (Editor’s note: The following commentary appears in response to a commentary published by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs’ Center for Independent Journalism criticizing the civics-education nonprofit Generation Citizen. OCPA’s center did not respond to a request that this piece be published on their site.) In the last 10… Continue reading Partisan Takes Won’t Define Nonpartisan Action Civics

Join us in Celebrating Our NY Change Makers!

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A Note from Scott Warren on Generation Citizen’s Future

I’m excited to officially announce that I’ll be transitioning out of Generation Citizen’s CEO role at the end of June, 2020.  This is, above all, a time for tremendous celebration.  Co-founding, growing, and leading GC has been the honor and privilege of my lifetime. If you had told me when I was graduating from college… Continue reading A Note from Scott Warren on Generation Citizen’s Future

The Importance of High-Quality Professional Development

How we can get the most out of Professional Development that values teachers as the professionals they are By Lily Macias, Summer Program Fellow at Generation Citizen Oklahoma Remember those days in school when you had a substitute teacher, or maybe a late start, early release, or even an entire day off, because your teachers… Continue reading The Importance of High-Quality Professional Development