Category Archives: From the CM Trenches
Is Civic Mirror Helping Schools Escape from Education’s Death Valley?
Sire Ken Robinson has some incredible things to say about how schools lack the flexibility – or instructional and structural ability – to allow creativity and human dreams to flourish. We believe that Civic Mirror bucks this trend, and is … Continue reading
Lakewood High School’s Civic Mirror YouTube Video Channel
For whatever reason, Civic Mirror seems to attract above-average teachers, and many of them are simply teaching super stars. Starting with Sara Shackett a few years ago, the social studies teachers at Lakewood High School – just outside of Denver, … Continue reading
Best CM Election Campaign Video of 2011/12
Our team loves tuning into the CM-related Tweets, status updates, and YouTube videos that make noise online, and a couple weeks back we stumbled upon this one: Not anything unusual, but we noticed Zach, a Grade 10 … Continue reading
Swaggville – Was it all Just a Party?
Teacher: Ms. Kirsten Anthon Grade/Course: Civics 10, Grade 10 School: Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School Location: Mississauga, ON As we mourn the loss of Swaggville, a 10th Grade Civics course in Mississauga, Ontario, we should take a moment to celebrate … Continue reading
Best Free Trial Request of 2011
Most of the time our free trial requests are from teachers or district coordinators, and every once in a while we’ll get one from a student. The educator free trial requests are straightforward, but sometimes the student requests are really … Continue reading
Creative Genius or Corporate Thievery?
The citizens of Aquabania, students from Mr Ben Boucher’s 12th grade politics class at Bluevale Collegiate Institute, Waterloo, Ontario have created an interesting scenario in the last 2 weeks. The Background Info: During the first year of the country, both farms were producing food for … Continue reading
Why Do We Need a Government?
Mr Corbett Ball started an interesting discussion with his 10th Grade Future Forums class at Waterloo-Oxford Collegiate Institute in Baden, Ontario, who make up the nation of Bacon Falls, when he shared this statement: A dude named John Locke said … Continue reading
Major E/I Power Crisis
The nation of United IB Empire, made up of students from Mr Justin Ambrose’s 10th Grade Civics class at Turner Fenton Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, is in the middle of a major crisis. After the Open Marketsession last week … Continue reading
President of Catywompus Threatening Citizens With Death Penalty
Students from Mr. Bradshaw’s 8th Grade social studies class at the Brentwood Academy in Tennessee held their first Government Event for their nation, Catywompus, last week. Citizens of Catywompus are in disagreement as to how well the government session went, … Continue reading
Advice for New Nations
8th Grade students from Ms. Jamie Samione’s social studies class at Maplewood Middle School in Lynwood, WA, who make up Snorlax Sity, have just completed a Civic Mirror simulated year, and have valuable advice to students just starting the game. … Continue reading
