Building thoughtful skills for thoughtful engagement
This guide offers ready-made exercises for college students and tools for faculty to easily integrate them into their courses. With practice, we can all build thoughtful habits for more constructive public discourse.
Disagreements are inevitable
Building capacity for civic discourse
Democracy requires that citizens develop the wherewithal to navigate difficult conversations, especially with those with whom they disagree. Unfortunately, people don’t always disagree well. This can leave everyone feeling frustrated, confused, and even indignant. This guide is here to help.
Focus on the practical
This guide provides faculty with practical tools for integrating materials into your courses almost immediately. Please feel free to jump around to discover what is most useful. We also encourage you to return material that you skip on a first pass because it will likely prove to be important in all the ways that learning can be sneaky.