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A professional development opportunity for New York City metropolitan area teachers, the Seminar is modeled on the highly successful Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers and is designed to expand and strengthen instruction about the history, operation, and cases of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Eighth edition, 2009
First edition, 2004 paperback book, 242 pages
executive director
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senior program director
16 July 2009
21 January 2009
5 November 2008
1 October 2008
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The New York City Supreme Court Seminar will not be offered during the 2010-11 school year.
Past participants are invited to join the Supreme Court Seminars and Institutes online community. Share lesson plans, ask questions, and learn about other professional development opportunities. If you're already a member, login at http://streetlawteachers.org/. If you'd like to join, email Ethan Kennedy.
We depend on past participants to publicize the Supreme Court Institutes and Seminars. If you're presenting or attending a workshop and can hand out brochures, contact Ethan Kennedy.
July 16, 2009 From July 7-10, 2009, 16 teachers attended the first ever Supreme Court Seminar for Baltimore Teachers at the University of Maryland School of Law. Read more
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November 5, 2008 Each spring, Street Law, Inc. honors an exemplary law-related education teacher at the Annual Awards Dinner. Potential nominees include classroom teachers, school resource officers, law students, lawyers, and professionals from community-based organizations and juvenile justice settings. Read more
October 1, 2008 Street Law, Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society are excited to announce the expansion of the Supreme Court Institutes and Seminar into Atlanta, GA. Read more
July 8, 2008 Megan Lawlor is a social studies teacher and director of the law academy at Hirsch High School on the south side of Chicago. On June 19, 2008, she also became the 1,000th teacher to participate in the Supreme Court Institutes and Seminars for Teachers. Read more
September 1, 2007 In 2001, the New Century High School Initiative launched an unprecedented period of change in secondary schools across New York City. Today, the resulting 83 small schools in someof the city’s most underserved areas reveal important and encouraging lessons in education reform. Read more
February 1, 2007 Street Law is pleased to partner with PBS on its innovative new series, The Supreme Court. Produced by New York City PBS affiliate WNET, the four-part documentary traces the history of the Court –- from its creation, through the Rehnquist years –- with particular emphasis on major cases and personal stories about the justices who have shaped our notions of justice and law. Read more
January 25, 2007 When Louisiana teacher Stephanie Goodrich began a session with her eighth-grade honors class on the Supreme Court this month, she showed them a picture of the nine justices. "They said, 'Could there be only one lady on the court?' " recalled Goodrich, who is in her 15th year teaching in the Alexandria, La., school district. Read more
April 6, 2000 Former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr recently briefed an unusual audience at the U.S. Supreme Court. Instead of justices, jurors or the occasional U.S. senator, he talked to 20 District social studies and history teachers. Read more
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