YIP Civics Curriculum Pilot Program Application
Thank you for your interest in the YIP Education Department's Curriculum Pilot Program!

For the past three years, the Education Department at the Institute for Youth in Policy (YIP) has been developing a nonpartisan, discourse-based high school civics curriculum to combat political polarization and a lack of youth civic engagement. We're an entirely student-led team from across the U.S., and we share the goal of improving civics education through resources that drive productive conversations among students about vital current issues. Our discourse-based activities are backed by research showing quantifiable positive effects on students' topic comprehension, understanding of other political perspectives, and motivation to be civically engaged, and we presented these findings in the only student-led session of 300+ at the College Board's 2023 AP Annual Conference. We've also presented at the 2024 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Conference, and at 2025 SXSW EDU. 

We now want to bring our curriculum to your classroom! We offer eight curriculum units spanning a range of policy areas as well as supplemental current events resources tackling some of today's most challenging societal issues. Starting in 2024-25, we have officially launched our curriculum in classrooms with a cohort of educators piloting our activities and sharing teacher and student feedback, ultimately allowing us to improve our resources to better support classrooms. We're currently expanding our program's reach for the 2025-26 school year!  

To support pilot programs, we will be providing stipends of up to $500. We will also be hosting virtual workshops in collaboration with our partner organizations to engage directly with cohort members and to share teacher- and student-focused resources from our curriculum.

If you are interested in being part of this growing network of educators, please fill out the application below. We look forward to working with you!

Deadline: Applications will now be accepted on a rolling basis.

Please contact education@yipinstitute.org with any questions.
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