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Congratulations to the following winners of our first annual President's Day Contest:

1st place: Liana Teixeira, West Haven High School

2nd place: Robert Goeller, Academy of Information, Technology & Engineering

3rd place: Chris Kremer, Academy of Information, Technology & Engineering

4th place: Ryan Smith, West Haven High School

Congratulations to Cheshire High School for taking first place in the Crime Scene Investigation Competition at Manchester Community College on May 19th and to Coginchaug High School for achieving second place. Congratulations to Ridgefield High School for taking first place in the competition at the University of New Haven Henry Lee School of Forensic Sciences and Criminal Justice and to Trumbull High School for receiving second place.

Participating Schools: South Windsor High School, Trumbull High School, Greenwich High School, St. Joseph High School, Torrington High School, Warren Harding High School

HIGHEST SCORE IN EACH UNIT: UNIT ONE—GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL UNIT TWO—GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL UNIT THREE—SOUTH WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL UNIT FOUR—TRUMBULL HIGH SCHOOL UNIT FIVE—GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL UNIT SIX—TIE BETWEEN GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL AND ST. JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL

SCHOOL PLACEMENT:

3RD PLACE-SOUTH WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL

2ND PLACE-TRUMBULL HIGH SCHOOL

1ST PLACE-GREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL*

*Will represent Connecticut at the national competition in April

Congratulations to our 2009 Young People's Debate State Champions from the Henderson Home School team and to our State Finalist from John Winthrop Middle School!!

Congratulations to the 2009 CCLCE High School Mock Trial State Champions Ridgefield High School and to William Moreland of Ridgefield High School for receiving the honor of the 2009 Bob Boland Award for Outstanding Mocker!!!!

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Newsletter #4 June, 2009

The next meeting date will be announced in September. Stay tuned . . .

Congratulations to the following students on their achievements in the 2008 Constitution Day Contest:

K-3 Poster Contest: 1st place Brooke Tweedie, Long Meadow Elem.; 2nd place Jacob Goldstein, St. Rose School; 3rd place Taylor Davis, Jumoke Academy; 4th place Katrina Hon, Long Meadow Elem.

Elementary Essay Contest: 1st place Natalie Mack, Jumoke Academy; 2nd place Marques, Jumoke Academy; 3rd place Emma Dorman, St. Joseph; 4th place Christian Lombardi, Preston Veterans' Memorial School.

Middle School Essay Contest: 1st place Robert DeLuca, Bedford Middle School; 2nd place Alejandra Mesa, Bethel Middle School; 3rd place Xavier Sottile, Beecher Road School; 4th place Jeremy Sherman, Bedford Middle School.

High School Essay Contest: 1st place Calvin Baldwin, Fairfield Warde H.S.; 2nd place Andrew Thompson, Morgan School; 3rd place Sarah Schmidt, Lyme-Old Lyme H.S.; 4th place  Emily Wyner, Danbury H.S.

In early November five delegates from Connecticut traveled to Chile and met with a group of Chilean educators to assess civic education programs for young people in Chile and to exchange best practices and strategies to promote education for democracy.  The Connecticut delegates included James Schmidt and Julie Jaquish from CCLCE;  Gail Tomala, from the Connecticut State Department of Education;  Robert Stevenson, a teacher at New Canaan High School;  and Lorna Gallagher, a teacher at Lisbon Central School.

The Connecticut/Chile exchange took place as part of Civitas, a national and international network of individuals, civil society organizations, educational institutions, and governmental agencies. Civitas is directed by the Center for Civic Education in conjunction with its domestic and international partners and offers a range of activities and programs that share the common objectives of creating student-centered interactive curricula for the next generation of citizens and training teachers in the methodologies appropriate to the use of these materials in the classroom.

This is the fourth year in which Connecticut and Chile have worked together, specifically on Project Citizen, a curriculum program that promotes competent and responsible participation in local and state government.  During the current school year Connecticut and Chilean teachers and their students will study similar public policy issues, communicating with each other by computer.  A website has been established for this:  www.cclce.org/wiki.

Two schools in Connecticut will be involved in the project during this school year.  Lisbon Central School will work with two classes at Colegio Montesol, a pre-K-12 school in Quilpue, Chile.  New Canaan High School will work with one class at Colegio Montesol and one class at Cervantes High School in Santiago, Chile.

During the CCLCE’s four year partnership with educators in Chile, it is evident that Connecticut and Chilean students share common concerns, including health care, the environment, school needs, the lack of scholarships for college, and town and school safety.  Working together it is hoped that students will learn to interact cooperatively, challenging each other with questions and answers, as they work toward solving problems.  Examining common public policy issues, students will also understand the democratic process and learn to become engaged citizens.

The Resource CD was compiled to help ensure that Connecticut social studies and history teachers have easy access to documents useful for teaching courses in civics, government and United States history.

In addition to more than 400 documents, the disc contains several mock trial cases, curricular resources and lessons for teaching about Connecticut History, and links to dozens of websites offering free resources.

The contents of the CD are now available on-line under Resources. 

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Help is on the way!! We have curricula, lesson plans, projects, contests and more to help you meet the new state mandate in engaging your 4th or 5th graders in democracy education. More information will be available soon. For specific questions or requests, contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .