Project CRITICAL Workshop 1 Agenda

August 28, 2018

8:30 a.m.           Welcome/Introductions

8:35 a.m.           A PowerPoint Overview

Project CRITICAL Website

9:00 a.m.           The Importance of Teaching Public Policy Skills

Overview of the PPA The Steps

9:10 a.m.           Step #1: Defining the Social Problem:

Creating a social problem based on your curriculum ELA

Input Data shared

Step #2: Gathering Evidence of the Problem:

Input Data shared

10:00 p.m.         BREAK

10:10 a.m.         Step #3: Identifying the Causes of the Problem

Input Data shared

Step #4: Evaluating Existing Public Policies

Input Data shared

11:00 a.m.         Step #5: Developing Public Policy Solutions

Input Data shared

11:30 a.m.         Step #6: Selecting the Best Public Policy Solution

Input Data          shared

12:00 p.m.         LUNCH

12:30 p.m.         Review of the 6 steps of the the PPA

12:45 p.m.         Common problems when developing a social problem

· Activity: Developing a Social Problem ans

· Find PPA problems: in the news *

· Plastic

· Birds

· Teachers create/define a social problem from their curriculum/community

· Curriculum Restructuring Forms: Developing a Social Problem for webquest

2:00 p.m.           Evaluations

· PPA pre-test

· SCALES database

· Identification of Talent Pool Students

· Teacher Perceptions of Student Technology

2:25 p.m.           Workshop Evaluation

2:30 p.m.           Adjourn