How does Montessori prepare children to be "citizens of the world"?
With the elections just behind us, we thought we'd share with you one way in which students at Cascadia are being prepared for civic engagement.
Dear Maria,
How does Cascadia help the students learn to be “citizens of the world?”
Signed,
#civicallyminded
Dear #civicallyminded,
One of the things the Cedar classroom (middle school/adolescents) did at the beginning of November to encourage civic engagement was to visit the Clark County Elections Office in downtown Vancouver. Greg Kimsey, the current County Auditor, gave the class a one hour tour of the office. The students saw election workers verifying signatures from ballot envelopes, storing ballots gathered from ballot drop boxes, and preparing for next week’s midterm election. These tours are available to anyone who walks into the elections office or you can learn more in
this informative video.
While there are a lot of things that go into sustaining a healthy democracy (such as
unsupervised play!), learning about the election process and speaking with elected officials are key elements to citizen participation. Ask a Cedar student what they learned about mail in voting in our area!
