You can find lots of teaching and learning resources to help you plan your VERA classroom activities on these sites developed by the New England Literacy Resource Center.

The Change Agent: Democracy in Action

This special this special issue of The Change Agent contains lively articles, student writings, cartoons, graphics, math lessons, and other lessons that are classroom-ready and designed to build student empowerment and engagement. The Issue Extras page includes lessons coming out of the 2008 VERA campaign developed by VERA participants.

Civic Participation and Citizenship Collection

Annotated web sites and original materials.

The 2008 Election Central

This may be the most comprehensive non-partisan website related to the related to the 2008 elections. Developed by the Constitutional Rights Foundation, it offers links to most recent media coverage, blogs, candidates. It also has links to election predictions, opinion polls, election results, cartoons, and civics related topics. The focus tends to be more national than local.

To learn more about the NELRC, our workshops, or about submitting links and materials for this site, contact Steve Quann, Webmaster at (617) 482-9485 or at squann@worlded.org