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On Their Soapboxes
For the 10th grade civic engagement framework (Action Civics in the DMV), each student identified a social issue that spoke to them and volunteered at an organization addressing that issue – ranging from clean rivers to affordable housing. This spring, each student researched their issue in depth and wrote a "soapbox speech," based on Mikva Challenge's Project Soapbox public speaking program.
In mid-May, students delivered their speeches in advisory, and each advisory selected one representative for the gradewide competition (pictured below); all 10th graders then voted on three speakers to represent Burke at the citywide competition next fall. Congratulations to all gradwide soapbox speeches!
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