2014 Oregon Civics Conference for Teachers

Whether you have attended before or this is your first conference, there is something for you. New topics, old friends, elected officials from every branch, and talented educators with amazing material for your classroom: check it out!  Experts will quench your thirst for knowledge. Teacher-led sessions on the Oregon Trail, Project Citizen and town hall role plays will give you the strategies you need for ready-to-go lessons for your classroom.

Knowledge and strategies make for a good conference but there is an added dimension that makes it unforgettable:  place.  This is an opportunity to surround yourself with history. From the rare opportunity to sit in the Senate Chambers, to the Governor’s office, to the Supreme Court courtroom, to workshops in hearing rooms where current issues are being thrashed about, the State Capitol is the home of this conference. The building will satisfy your sense of place. And that is why this conference checks every box.

HIGHLIGHTS IN THIS YEAR’S PROGRAM 

Honorable Susan M. Leeson, Oregon Supreme Court (retired); mediator and arbitrator; author
Justice Leeson will discuss the Americanization of the 21st Century – controversial yet relevant approaches to immigration and naturalization in America today.

Honorable Jack L. Landau, Associate Justice, Oregon Supreme court
Justice Landau will review three Oregon legal cases: State v. Babson (about protesters camping on the Capitol steps); State v. AJC(about a principal searching a student’s backpack); and State v. Nix (about an animal cruelty case).

Mr. Gregory Nokes, author
Mr. Nokes will discuss his provocative books, Breaking Chains and Massacred for Gold about Oregon’s often untold history about slavery and the murder of Chinese in Hells Canyon.

To register click here.