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March 25, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Teaching Contemporary Constitutional Topics Using Constitution 101 and AI

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Teaching Contemporary Constitutional Topics Using Constitution 101 and AI

Date

March 25, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Location

Online

Cost

Free

Credit

Grade Level Grades 9-12, Professional Development

About This Webinar

In today’s increasingly polarized world, teaching about the Constitution presents both challenges and opportunities. This interactive session, presented in partnership with Khan Academy and the National Constitution Center, will equip educators with practical strategies and innovative tools to navigate these complexities. Educators will gain a replicable framework for teaching contemporary constitutional topics using the Constitution 101 course and Khan Academy’s AI tools.

Through the demonstration, we will explore:

  • Aligning to real-world constitutional topics: Using a demo topic, we will show educators how to start with the Constitution 101 course to provide context to bridge the gap between historical foundations and modern-day issues and increase understanding of current debates.
  • Leveraging expert perspectives to inform discussion: We will highlight relevant videos from the Constitution 101 course that feature constitutional scholars, professors, and experts from diverse political philosophies who provide nonpartisan insights to inform current topics.
  • Harnessing AI-powered learning: We will demonstrate how Khan Academy’s artificial intelligence tools can be paired with the Constitution 101 course to foster civil dialogue, information gathering, support essay writing, and provide students personalized feedback on their constitutional arguments.

This webinar is part of Share My Lesson's 2025 Virtual Conference! View all sessions here.

Speakers

Julie Silverbrook is vice president of civic education at the National Constitution Center. In this capacity, she oversees the Center’s civic education strategy and the development and distribution of all educational products and programs. For over a decade, Silverbrook has been one of the nation’s leading advocates for civic education and constitutional literacy. She regularly writes and lectures on the importance of civic education to the health of the American republic, and on the U.S. Constitution and its history. Silverbrook has extensive experience in growth projects for non-profit organizations, cultivating partnerships, fundraising, coalition-building, and business development and management. Prior to joining the Center, she served as senior director of partnerships and constitutional scholar in residence at iCivics from 2020-2024. Before that, she served as executive director of the Constitutional Sources Project (ConSource) in Washington, D.C., from 2012-2020.

Silverbrook holds a JD 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 BA 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. She was recently awarded the Taylor Reveley Citizen Lawyer award by William & Mary Law School for her dedication to promoting public understanding of the United States Constitution.

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Chief Learning Officer, Khan Academy

Dr. Kristen DiCerbo is the Chief Learning Officer at Khan Academy, where she leads the content, design, product management, and community support teams. Time magazine named her one of 100 people shaping the future of AI in 2024. Dr. DiCerbo’s career has focused on embedding insights from education research into digital learning experiences. Prior to her role at Khan Academy, she was Vice-President of Learning Research and Design at Pearson, served as a research scientist supporting the Cisco Networking Academies, and worked as a school psychologist. Kristen has a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Arizona State University.

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Professional Credit

Share My Lesson webinars are available for one-hour of PD credit. A certificate of completion will be available for download at the end of your session that you can submit for your school's or district's approval.

In addition, Share My Lesson has arrangements in place as follows:

Resources

Files

Share My Lesson_Constitution 101 (March 2025).pdf

Presentation
March 25, 2025
3.37 MB

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