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Public Hearings creating an expectation of service CIVIC EDUCATION AND COMMISSIONERS SERVICE IN SCHOOLS

The Honorable Dr. Joseph Heck, Chairman JUNE 20, 2019 The Honorable Mark Gearan, Vice Chair for National and Public Service The Honorable Debra Wada, Vice Chair for Military Service PROGRAM 9:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Mr. Edward Allard III, Commissioner Mr. Steve Barney, Commissioner The Honorable Dr. Janine Davidson, Commissioner OPENING STATEMENT AND REMARKS The Honorable Avril Haines, Commissioner Dr. Joe Heck, Chairman Ms. Jeanette James, Commissioner PANELISTS TESTIFY Mr. Alan Khazei, Commissioner Mr. Thomas Kilgannon, Commissioner PANELIST Q&A Ms. Shawn Skelly, Commissioner (two rounds of questions directly from Commissioners)

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MR. DEREK BLACK, PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH Kei was a key author of seminal papers such as: The Republic is (Still) at Risk – and Civics is Part of the Solution (with Peter Levine); Taking the Lead: How Educators Can Help Close the Gender

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Carolina School of Law, where he teaches education law and policy, e r constitutional law, civil rights and voting. His scholarship focuses on e Public Radio, Washington Post, C-SPAN, Channel 1, and NBC. Kei is a recipient of Jobs for The educational equality and fairness for disadvantaged students. He has Future Distinguished Fellowship for Student-Centered Learning, and serves on the National Board authored two books on education law and thirty scholarly articles, of Generation Citizen, Democracy Works, and the Leadership Council for Nonprofit VOTE. She is including in journals such as Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, NYU also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Practice of Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and Northwestern University Law Review. Democratic Citizenship, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education His work has been cited and relied upon several times in the federal Assessment Advisory Committee, and the American Bar Association Division on Public Education. courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He provides regular media commentary and has served Kei earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University, with an emphasis on child and as an expert witness in federal and state education cases. Prior to teaching, he litigated adolescent, community psychology, and positive youth development. education cases at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He began his career in teaching at Howard University School of Law, where he also founded and directed the Education MS. ANANYA SINGH, YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL MENTOR, Rights Center. NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL MS. ANNIE HSIAO, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DISCRETIONARY Ananya Singh is a student advocate for service-learning, youth voice, GRANTS AND SUPPORT SERVICES IN THE OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND and environmental action. She works with the National Youth Leadership SECONDARY EDUCATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Council (NYLC), an internationally recognized organization that serves to Annie Hsiao is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Discretionary Grants and develop young leaders, support educators, and advance the field of Support Services in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at service-learning. Through her role as Youth Advisory Council Mentor, she the US Department of Education, where she oversees programs on school has discovered her voice as a servant-leader, advised the organization choice, teacher effectiveness, innovation, research, early education, and on its programming, and delivered service-learning training for youth technical assistance. She was previously the Senior Advisor to the Acting and educators alongside NYLC staff. Ananya has been dedicated to Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Justice Programs at the US service and activism since 2015, when she attended Youth Empowered Department of Justice, advising on policy, strategy, and programs. She is Action (YEA) Camp. Ananya is currently transitioning into her new position as the CEO of Greening the former Director of Strategic Partnerships at Leadership for Educational Forward, a youth-led organization that empowers young environmentalists by connecting them to Equity and was formerly a Program Manager at the Charles Koch resources, workshops, and mentorships. She is the High School Chair of the New Jersey Student Foundation,and a Program Officer at the Walton Family Foundation, the leading grant-maker in K-12 Sustainability Coalition, a network of student organizations working on environmental issues that education reform and parental choice. Prior to this, she was Director of Education Policy at the strives to build collective power. Ananya is currently a rising senior at Morris County School of American Action Forum, and Director of Government and Community Relations with an appointment Technology in Denville, New Jersey. from the George W. Bush Administration at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her work has appeared in Politico, National Review, Weekly Standard, The Hill, Washington Examiner, Daily Caller MR. ALHASSAN SUSSO, 2019 NEW YORK STATE TEACHER OF THE and other publications. Originally from California, Ms. Hsiao received her B.A. in Political Science and YEAR, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Masters in Alhassan Susso is an educator, author and speaker who has devoted his Education Policy from and was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute. Her career to transforming the lives of young people facing difficulties. He is volunteer work also includes serving as a board member of a charter school in DC and serving as a the author of a motivational memoir, The Light of Darkness: The Story of deaconess at her church. the Griots' Son, which traces his journey to America as a nearly blind DR. KEI KAWASHIMA-GINSBERG, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR teenager and his trials and triumphs becoming American, while INFORMATION AND RESEARCH ON CIVIC LEARNING AND maintaining his deep African roots. This book is now being used in several ENGAGEMENT (CIRCLE), schools in the U.S. to teach a variety of topics including immigration, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg is the director of The Center for Information and overcoming adversities, practicing compassion etc. Alhassan is the 2019 Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), part of the Tisch New York State Teacher of the Year. He was also named in 2017 as one of "The Top 50 College of Civic Life at Tufts University. CIRCLE is a nonpartisan national Outstanding Educators in the World" by the Varkey Foundation's Global Teacher Prize. He is a two- research institute that focuses on youth civic learning and engagement. time recipient of Social-Emotional Learning Innovation Award for Teachers by Education First She manages CIRCLE’s expansive portfolio of research initiatives, tools for through the Rockefeller Foundation. Alhassan currently teaches Government, Economics and educators and reports that influence civic education. Personal Development at the International Community High School in .