Osseo Senior High Teacher Accepted Into Supreme Court Summer Institute

Bill Bauman of Maple Grove and a teacher at will travel to Washington DC this June to attend the Supreme Court Summer Institute.

After a competitive application process, 60 teachers were  selected to participate this year. Bauman is the only public school teacher in Minnesota to be selected for the institute. The Institute, open to teachers in the field of law-related and civic education, is co-sponsored by Street Law, Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society.

The Institute offers teachers the opportunity to study recent Supreme Court Cases in detail and learn teaching methodology for conveying this information to students. Well-known Supreme Court lawyers, reporters, scholars, and educators will be among the speakers and instructors for the Institute. Teachers will visit the Court and attend a reception there.

Upon returning home, teachers will be available to present workshops on the U.S. Supreme Court, and to meet with media to discuss how the new skills and information will apply in their classrooms.

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