@Cwpfairfield Was Thrilled by Day One of #ProjectCitizen18 and @writingproject Work. Magic

The best parts of my summer arrive when I come home and learned from Abu and Ali about all the activities I missed. I can't be eyes and ears in every room every second of the day, but I can walk in and get a sense of how things are going.

Project Citizen - Year 4.
Project Citizen - Year 2 with intentional support from a Supporting Effective Educator Development Summer Camp Grant.
Project Citizen - Year 2 of mixing up communities in order to discuss democracy, equity, fairness, justice, globalization, and activism.

It truly is amazing.

Yesterday, we had 30 phenomenal high school youth from several districts across Connecticut, including a team of young people flown from S. Dakota.

We've hired excellent teachers and ordered incredible books. The goal is to have kids bond, to talk, to find their passion, and to write for a better tomorrow world.

On day one, every time I walked into the room I was mesmerized by the mature conversations, team building, creative thinking, and problem solving.

I'm guessing that Dear Martin, Long Way Down, and Rebound may be the perfect texts for the kids to explore as they're thinking about the nation they will one day inherit.

It's an interesting time to be a kid in the United States, making sense of what the history texts teach them and the realities they're seeing unravel before their eyes.

That is what Project Citizen is all about. Letting them decide about what's best and write their way into the future.