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Storytelling & Civic Learning: Using Digital Media to Deepen Student Engagement

Digital media can bring history and civic issues to life, fostering deeper intellectual and emotional engagement and critical thinking in the classroom. Join the Center for Civic Education and Life Stories for an interactive webinar to learn strategies and gain access to visual storytelling and educational resources to connect and inform students about the pressing historical, legal, and civic issues in their world. Using interviews, documentary films, and real-world case studies, we’ll examine how digital media and first-person non-fiction storytelling can address and be integrated with constitutional questions.

Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your teaching. Register today and introduce your students to the power of storytelling!

Benefits for live attendees include: media supports for teachers preparing students for We the People National Finals, the opportunity to get a certificate of professional learning, the ability to ask questions of both organizations.

Can’t attend live? Register anyway, and we’ll notify you when the recording is available for on-demand viewing, typically within a week of the webinar.

About Us

The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries. The Center's programs are designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be informed and engaged citizens.

Life Stories creates and distributes documentary films, series, and educational resources that spotlight relatable human stories of purpose and meaning in times of collective change. Through non-fiction storytelling, we explore what guides the moral leadership of individuals behind social movements and elected office, reveal the inner workings of cultural institutions, and capture the changes in our nation during times of struggle. Available on our YouTube channel and website, Life Stories works to connect us in an era when the world needs it most.

Our documentary work used in schools includes the Emmy Award-winning A Silent Witness (Life Stories, 2024), True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality (HBO, 2019), and King In The Wilderness (HBO, 2018). Other projects include the 4-part series Lincoln’s Dilemma (Apple TV+, 2022), A Choice of Weapons: Inspired By Gordon Parks (HBO, 2021); the 3-part series Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (HBO, 2021); The Soul of America (HBO, 2020), and John McCain: For Whom The Bell Tolls (HBO, 2018).

Professional Development

The Center has offered high-quality educator professional development for decades. Today, we provide such opportunities through our partners in several states in addition to organized Center events, self-paced online courses, and special webinars.
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