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Upcoming Events

Join us for Close Up Conversations, student deliberations, nationwide conferences, and more! 

Close Up hosts and takes part in a variety of civic engagement events, both in person and online, to help students and teachers discuss policy issues and connect with members of our nationwide community. These discussions, deliberations, and presentations allow participants to hear different perspectives from experts and each other, and consider new approaches to engaging with current issues. 

Close Up Civil Discourse Credential Educator Certification Pilot Program

October 16-17 | Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area

Close Up, in partnership with Mastery Transcript Consortium, an ETS company, is creating a Civil Discourse Credential to recognize high school students who have demonstrated mastery across three key domains: Digital Citizenship, Communication Across Difference, and Analyzing Political and Social Issues. If you’re a student-facing educator, you have the opportunity to join a two-day training to introduce this credential to your students. The training will focus on a range of communication and analytical skills and civic competencies to develop democratic citizens capable of active participation in a large, complex, media-driven democracy.