Dear Friends,
Big news! Next Tuesday, June 11, I will represent Kankakee Community College as one of only two community colleges in the country invited to the United States Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers, sponsored by Street Law, Inc. Street Law is a not-for-profit organization that promotes civics education initiatives for high school educators. Out of the 30 seats available for this year’s institute, two were made available to community college faculty for the first time ever—and little old KCC is filling one of those seats! I could not be happier to represent our wonderful students, our talented alumni, and the Kankakee legal community at this institute. And what a timely event, with the cases and issues facing this Court during the current term. There is much teaching and learning to be accomplished, and I am eager to spend 7 days in Washington learning about the Court’s inner workings and better ways to make our students more civically literate. The ideas are swimming in my head as I type! As many of you know, I began my career working for the state judiciary, and those professional lessons from valued mentors have stayed with me to this day. . . . I really hope to pay this forward to the latest generation of students!
To that end, I invite you to follow my journey on Facebook, which my students have dubbed “Miss C’s Excellent Adventure.” (Seriously, none of them are old enough to even know this movie.) I plan to post every day and will include questions and topics to get my students’ thoughts moving. Hope you’ll get a minute to check in as well:
Take care! Hope to hear from you! –Kris