Scholar Exchanges

Sign Up for a Live Scholar Exchange for Your Students

Our Scholar Exchanges give students the opportunity to discuss constitutional topics with a lawyer, judge, or constitutional scholar and their peers from around the country. In this setting, students gain deeper constitutional understanding and engage in enhanced civil discourse.

Use this form to schedule a session for your class.

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What You Need to Know:

  • Sessions are free and open to classes ranging from elementary school to college.
  • Select topics are offered at any time throughout the year. Additional topics are featured on a monthly or seasonal basis.
  • Sessions are scheduled on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, at times that work for teachers and their students. When at all possible, classes are scheduled with other grade-level appropriate groups from around the country to increase opportunities for students to engage with other students of different perspectives.

Year-Round Topics

The following topics are offered throughout the year:

  • Constitutional Conversations
  • Federalism and the Separation of Powers
  • Bill of Rights
  • First Amendment: Speech
  • 14th Amendment
  • Voting Rights

Monthly Featured Topics

Fall

August/September: 

  • The Constitutional Convention
  • Principles of the American Revolution
  • Articles of Confederation
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