LIVE
FEB
19
1:00 PM EST
Nicole Mirra & Charlene Ortuno: Empowering Youth Civic Engagement in the 21st Century
How can parents, teachers, and mentors support innovative youth civic endeavors, both in- and out-of-school?
About This Speaker
Nicole Mirra is a high school English teacher at Animo Watts College Preparatory Academy in Los Angeles, CA, and the coordinator of the UCLA Council of Youth Research: a university-school partnership program that engages students and teachers from five Los Angeles public schools in research aimed at challenging educational inequalities and fostering transformative civic engagement. She is also Chair of the "Envisioning 21st Century Education" track at DML2013.
Charlene Ortuno is an English teacher at iPrep Academy, a magnet high school school in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. She also serves as a curriculum consultant for "Teen Thoughts on Democracy," a project at Florida International University's museum, library, and research center called "The Wolfsonian."
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