Partners

Civics Mosaic is an international civic education program operating with a grant from the United States Department of Education1 , Cooperative Civic Education and Economic Education Exchange Program. Civics Mosaic is headquartered at the Council for Citizenship Education, directed by Dr. Stephen L. Schechter at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Civics Mosaic is a program of Civitas-Russia, a United States-Russian partnership in the international Civitas network coordinated by the Center for Civic Education in Calabasas, California.

Civitas-Russia U.S. partners include: the American Federation of Teachers Education Foundation, the Council for Citizenship Education at Russell Sage College, Maryland We the People... The Citizen and the Constitution, and the School of Education at Boston University.

Civitas-Russia Russian partners include: the Uchitelskaya Gazeta (The Teacher's Newspaper of Russia); the Association for Civic Education of Russia, the Grazhdanin (Citizenship) Teacher Training Center; the Samara Center for Civic Education, and the St. Petersburg Law School.

Civics Mosaic regional partners include:

• North River Region (Massachusetts) and Oryol
• Hudson (Massachusetts) and Bryansk
• Capital Region (New York) and Volgograd
• New York City and St. Petersburg
• Baltimore (Maryland) and Samara
• Charles County (Maryland) and Penza
• Columbus (Ohio) and Moscow City
• Toledo Region (Ohio) and Moscow Region
• Northwest Indiana and Kirov
• Chicago Region and Krasnoyarsk
• Kansas City Region (Missouri) and Rostov-on-Don
• Anchorage (Alaska) and Kamchatka
• Civitas-Russia

Civitas-Russia

Civitas-Russia was established in 1995 as a U.S.-Russian partnership in civic education. Today, it is one of the largest coalitions of civic education programs and organizations in Russia. Its components in Russia include: a professional association of 10,000 members with a weekly newspaper supplement; good working relations with federal and regional ministries; an extensive in-service teacher education program with a teacher's guide and mobile seminars; a model pre-service teacher education program with a sequence of courses and accompanying textbooks; a national co-curricular program adopted by the Federal Ministry of Education; a variety of publications for classroom use; and national dissemination through the Teacher's Newspaper of Russia with a circulation of 100,000. In the U.S., Civitas-Russia is focused on the introduction of comparative civics into American classrooms through its Civics Mosaic program.