AMERICAN CREED EDUCATION CAMPAIGN
Since 2018, students around the country have been discussing American Creed documentary clips in class, with curricular support from the National Writing Project.
This year, PBS LearningMedia will launch new films along with project-based learning activities combining documentary photography and persuasive writing exploring American ideals. We’re inviting educators and students to beta-test the forthcoming PBS series of American Creed films and curricular activities to explore what young adults around the country see as the greatest challenges facing their communities and our democracy, and prospective solutions.
To stay connected with the education campaign, join the American Creed educator mailing list.
Meet “extraordinary, ordinary” young leaders:
Sample photo essays:
“Community, Land and Care” by Jace Charger
“Phantom of the Black Diamond” by Jonathan Blair
“Salmon Tales – Subsistence on the Kenai Peninsula” by Sam Schimmel
Curricular guides:
The National Writing Project is producing common core aligned curricular guides. These resources include discussion activities, critical analysis walk-throughs, and step-by-step guides for students to compose persuasive essays or photo-essays exploring their own visions of community engagement.
Students respond to American Creed:
Education Partners
After exploring different stories about young people stepping up for their communities, students compose their own work—essays, photography projects or other media exploring their own values in stories about their own communities.
Student voice is amplified by the following partners:
America’s largest network of teachers of writing creates and distributes resources that support the use of American Creed documentary films and photography projects in classrooms and informal learning sites including 18 YouMedia production centers in public libraries around the country. After discussing American Creed films, youth create their own media and share their own perspectives on America’s democratic ideals.
Working Assumptions engages students in taking photographs and writing captions that explore challenges and solutions at intersections of family, community and care.
Produced by KQED Education, this national youth media publishing platform is a vehicle through which students contribute their voices and visions to a national conversation sparked by American Creed documentary films and clips. KQED Education will conduct outreach to partner PBS stations so those stations can spotlight the work of local students in PBS markets around the country.
America’s largest and most trusted source of curricular materials utilized by over 1.6 million educators nationwide, PBS LearningMedia hosts American Creed short films, clips and open-source educational assets intended for classroom use.
THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN CREED
The National Writing Project is conducting professional development and teacher training workshops to show educators how to utilize American Creed curricular resources and public media publishing platforms.
Join the American Creed mailing list for educators to see how you and your students can get involved.