Description of Work: Co-organizes the Arkansas High School Ethics Bowl and is the project director of the UA Little Rock Ethics and Philosophy Summer Academy, a week-long residential summer camp for high school students. We had to secure all the funding externally to offer it free to students, so I could potentially be helpful to people who need to raise funds, work in state institutions, and/or need to teach themselves grant writing.

Description of Work: Founder and director of the SoCal Philosophy Academy, which promotes the practice of philosophy (dialogue and critical thinking) through pre-college and public philosophy programs. A friend and colleague, Dr. Kristopher G. Phillips (Eastern Michigan University), and I have also developed a workshop on starting and running a pre-college philosophy summer program. Please reach out if you are interested in collaborating or would like to organize a workshop!

Description of Work: Founder and director of UCI TH!NK, a community outreach program. With TH!NK, I take teams of grad students into local elementary schools, usually 5th-grade classrooms, to introduce students, via discussion of a range of texts (such as fables, poems, short stories, picture books, images, etc.), to philosophical thought and discourse

Description of Work: Founder and head of Project High-Phi, an unofficial entity devoted to supporting philosophical inquiry in high schools. As part of this, I am the coordinator of all dual-enrollment Philosophy courses taught in Connecticut high schools. I also organize the Connecticut High School Ethics Bowl, which takes place every January on the UConn/Storrs campus.

Description of Work: Founder and organizer of First Coast High School Ethics Bowl, co-founder and co-organizer of UNF Ethics Academy (a 2-week summer camp for high school students), supervisor of undergraduate interns who help high schools with their ethics bowl teams, supervisor of Ethics Scholars program for undergraduate students at UNF, founder and organizer of North Florida Philosophy Slams (informal public philosophy gatherings), organizer of Ethics Week at UNF, big supporter of undergraduate research and poster presentations.

Description of Work: As a Philosopher in Residence, I support teachers and students at several Model and Partner Schools. I lead many of the Uehiro Academy’s international collaborative activities, including annual exchanges of p4c teachers in Japan and Hawaii. I am also the PI of our partnership with the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Description of Work: Specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and teaches a variety of courses at the undergraduate level. I strive to give students options for public philosophy projects as part of their undergraduate curriculum. I am also a founding member of the Open Plato Project.

Description of Work: Directs the Philosophy Outreach Project (POP). Through POP, university students visit high schools to engage in guided philosophical discussions; facilitate a philosophy club at our local high school; host an annual pre-college philosophy conference; create resources for students and teachers; and manage a website and several social media accounts.

Description of Work: Developed a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum for K-2 students based on Logic-Based Therapy and Consultation. I have also taught a Beginning Ethics Service Learning Course that brought college undergraduates into first grade classrooms to work with the first graders on the curriculum.

Description of Work: Current organizer of a high school philosophy program (Philosophy Across the Ages), with the aim of facilitating cross generational philosophy discussions including high school students, University of Maine students, and local community members.

Description of Work: Our Center currently runs two programs for K-12 students. One is called Philosophy in Public Schools (PiPS), which takes undergraduate students into local schools to do philosophy with elementary school students. The other is Question Everything, which brings high school students to campus for a three-week summer philosophy program.

Description of Work: Teaches courses for Tufts students on philosophy for children and philosophy for high school students. I also oversee the work of two philosophers in residence at our local public high school. Each year I host the New England Regional High School Ethics Bowl and help to organize the New England Middle School Ethics Bowl.

Description of Work: Co-founder of the Iowa Lyceum and Utah Lyceum philosophy summer camps. I am editor in chief of the journal Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice. While I specialize in early modern European philosophy, I have additional research interests in the philosophy of education, philosophy for/with children, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and metaphilosophy.

Description of Work: Founding director of The Center for Practical Ethics. I developed multiple programs that focus on developing skills of civil dialogue using applied ethics issues and ethics bowl cases for students, faculty and staff, and community members. This work spans across ages, and includes programs such as our annual summer camps for both middle and high school students called Ethical U as well as outreach to school districts throughout the state of Mississippi.

Description of Work: Philosophy of Children in general, with a special interest in P4C practice within Latin American, Latinx, Indigenous, and U.S.-Mexico borderlands communities.

Description of Work: Teaches and writes on issues in law, politics, and society. I published I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies in 2008 and Justice through Apologies: Remorse, Reform, and Punishment in 2014. I am the co-founder and director of UNH’s Future Leaders Institute summer residential philosophy camp. At UNH, we host HYPE, which is an annual philosophy conference for 1000 students. We also have a JV Socratic Society.

Description of Work: Professor of Educational Foundations; succeeded Matthew Lipman as Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children. Publishes and teaches in the areas of philosophy of education, philosophy for children, pragmatism, gender, Socratic pedagogy and contemplative pedagogy. Co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Philosophy for Children (2016) and the Philosophy for Children Founders series (Routledge).

Description of Work: Directs the Philosophy and Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. I am a Fellow of the Institute of the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) and co-direct their residential summer workshop. I co-edit The Philosophy for Children Founders Series (Routledge) with my colleague, Maughn Rollings Gregory.

Description of Work: Has taught several courses, graduate and undergraduate, on philosophy of childhood and teaching philosophy at the precollege level. I also have established and lead a philosophy discussion group for adults in my community. I would love to work as a coach to any teacher interested in introducing philosophy into their classrooms, starting a philosophy club, or designing an elective in philosophy for middle or high school students. Additionally, offer a workshop on Long Island or Brooklyn.

Description of Work: An advocate for publicly engaged philosophy who works with partners across campus and the community to bring philosophical dialogue to diverse settings, including schools, libraries, prisons, and retirement communities. My research explores how philosophy fosters intellectual and moral virtues across the lifespan, and my outreach work centers on intergenerational dialogue.

Description of Work: Directs UC Philosophy for Cincinnati (P4C) group, training philosophy graduate and undergrad students in p4c methods. We work with a local elementary school aligning p4c lessons with their ELA EL Curriculum. I’m also developing a program using community of inquiry methods for science fair projects. I also teach undergrad philosophy for children and graduate philosophical pedagogy courses.

Description of Work: Founder of the JCU Philosophy4Kids Program. Students in my courses make weekly visits to local underserved schools to discuss philosophy and students who have taken my courses are hired as interns to run philosophy classes at local schools. We also invite the K-12 students to our campus for symposia.

Description of Work: Founder and director of the Philosophy in the Schools (PHITS) Program. This program involves a philosophical exchange between Oberlin College students and K-12 students. The college students are trained to facilitate weekly philosophical discussions and activities in our local schools. A wide range of topics are covered, including justice and power, the meaning of life, friendship, personal identity, beauty, and environmental ethics.

Description of Work: Founder and organizer for the Oregon High School and Middle School Ethics Bowls, experienced P4C teacher (including teaching a capstone in which undergraduate students created and deliver P4C curriculum), and faculty mentor for dual-credit ethics course.

Description of Work: Co-directs a P4C program at Texas A&M that has three prongs: educator workshops, undergraduate and graduate academic curriculum, and K-12 programming, including a philosophy summer camp for teens (2016- present). I teach and conduct research in P4C and philosophy of education.

Description of Work: Member of the PLATO Academic Advisory Board, and have led philosophy discussions with young people from kindergarten through high school (in Seattle WA, in Long Beach CA at my first job, and in Boulder CO as a graduate student). I also started and helped to run a philosophy summer camp when I was a graduate student. In my early years at UW, I gave a TEDx talk on philosophy for children.

Description of Work: Teaches P4C classes through the EWU Satori Camps, organizes Public Philosophy Nights in Spokane, Washington, and is a faculty mentor for dual-credit classes. My current interests are in using RPGs to engage k12 students and members of the public in ethical discussions and community building.