The Wyoming Department of Education is partnering with the University of Wyoming’s (UW) Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program on a new online learning center that aims to bring civics education to K-12 students in the state.
The new Civics Ed Center is intended to support the work being done by districts, schools, and community organizations through researching resources and making them readily accessible.
The center is the result of the work of a subcabinet of education stakeholders who were appointed by Megan Degenfelder – the state’s superintendent of public instruction – from across Wyoming to represent the interest of students, parents, school districts, and communities.
The group working on the Civics Ed Center spent six months developing a broad collection of national, state, and local resources. This spring, the UW Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program team worked to align the resources with the Wyoming Content and Performance Standards and the State Board of Education’s Profile of a Graduate in developing the online location within the UW WyoLearn platform to house the resources.
“By bringing together a dedicated group of stakeholders, we have put together resources – those highlighting excellent work being done by Wyoming-based organizations as well as national sources – that we believe will build new collaborations between educators and community groups to advance civics education in our state,” said Jean Garrison, co-director of the Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program.
