C-SPAN invites Devon Prep teacher to collaborate on classroom content
WASHINGTON » Jane Highley, a teacher at Devon Preparatory School, has been selected as one of five participants in C-SPAN’s 2022 Teacher Fellowship Program.
Highley will collaborate with C-SPAN’s Education Relations team for four weeks to create content for C-SPAN Classroom, a free online teaching resource.
Highley teaches American History, AP Comparative Government & Politics, AP U.S. Government & Politics, and AP Human Geography. She is the faculty sponsor for Devon Prep’s Diversity Club and a 2017 recipient of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship, which gave her the opportunity to pursue and complete a second master’s degree in History at La Salle University in 2020.
Through the fellowship, Highley will partner with C-SPAN to expand the collection of digital resources. C-SPAN Classroom provides middle and high school teachers with video-based content including lesson plans, bell ringers, current events videos, inquiry-based deliberations and more.
Each fellow was selected by a panel of C-SPAN representatives and evaluated based on their innovative use of C-SPAN programming in their curriculum, commitment to professional development and creative use of technology and social platforms. The educators will receive $1,000 for participating in the program.
“The fellowship program allows us to expand our vast collection of digital resources both in the diversity of content, as well as methods for teachers to incorporate them into their classrooms,” said Craig McAndrew, director of C-SPAN Education Relations. “We’re honored to work with committed teachers around the country, and our team is excited to have Jane on board with us this summer.”
The Fellowship Program, now in its 29th year, is sponsored by C-SPAN’s Education Foundation, a charitable organization created by C-SPAN. C-SPAN Classroom is an entity of C-SPAN, which is funded by America’s cable television companies. In Devon, CSPAN is available locally on Comcast.
“We are thrilled to congratulate Devon, Pa.’s Jane Highley on being selected as a C-SPAN Teacher Fellow,” said Stephanie L. Kosta, regional vice president of government affairs for Comcast’s Freedom Region. “And we’re proud of our continued partnership with C-SPAN on their educational initiatives including C-SPAN Classroom because we believe it’s important that students understand how our government works.”
The Fellowship will take place virtually in July. The program will coincide with C-SPAN’s Summer Educators’ Conferences for middle and high school teachers, which will be held virtually at the end of July. Highley and the other fellows will participate in the conferences and discuss how they use C-SPAN in their classrooms.
Educators can learn more about teaching opportunities with CSPAN, including the Fellowship Program, conferences, and free online training at www.c-span. org/classroom/opportunities/.
About C-SPAN Classroom
C-SPAN Classroom is the network’s free membership service that works with C-SPAN’s programs on public affairs, coverage of Congress, nonfiction books and American history to create free resources for teachers, students and the public to use in classrooms, projects or for research. C-SPAN Classroom’s website provides social studies teachers with access to thousands of free resources, including short current events videos, Lesson Plans and Bell Ringers, plus Constitution Clips and On This Day in History events. The education team also hosts the biweekly C-SPAN in the Classroom Podcast, available on the C-SPAN Now app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Engage with C-SPAN Classroom on Twitter and Facebook.