LWVCCA is pleased to celebrate and highlight exemplary student civics projects shared by their schools. In these projects students select a problem, learn about its root causes, strategize how to produce an improvement related to that problem, and develop an action plan. In this process, students speak to community experts and learn how to influence change through advocacy for government or community action.
See the projects nominated by Monomoy Regional High School
Click on the links below to see the slideshows:
11th Grade US History II C Block
LWV CAPE COD AREA Attends Multiple Civics Showcases
The Cape Cod Area League attended civics showcases in four school districts on the Cape and five of our members were also able to attend the DESE sponsored state regional showcase for the Southeast Region held at Dartmouth University. Our role in supporting school districts has always been to be a supporter on the side, but not to organize the civics showcase for the schools. The four school districts we assisted this year are the Barnstable Regional High School, the Dennis Yarmouth Regional High School, Monomoy Regional High School and Sandwich High School. In all of these districts, Grade 8 is a part of the high school so we were able to see Grade 8 projects as well as upper level projects.
Our primary way of supporting the schools is to ask our members to attend the civics showcases as community advisors to listen to the student presentations, offer resource information relevant to the student topic, and offer positive feedback and congratulations. On occasion, schools ask for resource support. One school was having difficulty finding community members to talk to a class about racism and they asked us if we could help. Our League was able to put together a panel of presenters for that class. Another district was beginning to lose momentum on their previous showcase format which had run for a full school day. We shared the experience of another school that shortened the time period to a few hours and they successfully tried that format this year. A third district asked us to resume an earlier recognition program we had during the pandemic, when we offered schools space on our local League website to celebrate student projects and so we have revived that practice this year.
Over the several years that schools have been doing these action civics projects, we have seen considerable growth in the sophistication of the projects and we are very proud of the guidance that teachers have provided to their students and the projects that students have created.
Barnstable High School
Topics range from specific school practices that could improve regarding school issues such as bathroom conditions, preparation for Step Up Day for Grade 8 students entering Grade 9, and better support for multilingual students, to broader societal concerns such as racism and improving communication between generations.
Dennis Yarmouth Regional High School
Topics range from how to create better access to school resources through creative scheduling, to community issues like the creation of a recreation center to societal issues like racism.
Monomoy Regional High School
Monomoy used their “Main Street” corridor to hold their civics showcase. They displayed trifold boards for the projects like most schools but additionally they shared slideshows of six exemplary projects which we have posted to the LWVCCA website. A link to the slideshows is here
