CLOSE UP CURRICULUM PARTNERS
For over 40 years, Close Up’s unique partnerships have provided participants with inside access to key institutions, policymakers, and Capitol Hill. We draw on the expertise of our many partner institutions to provide guest speakers, demonstrations, and simulations designed to give both students and teachers their very own Close Up experiences.
Our student program curriculum is designed to challenge students with the enduring questions of democracy. We collaborate with our partners in education to give students the opportunity to engage civically with primary sources including historical locations, documents and speakers. Likewise, our teacher program provides unique first-hand learning experiences for educators as well. Utilizing partnership workshops, seminars and on-site study visits, teachers gain valuable tools and resources to bring back to the classroom as well as opportunities for academic and professional development.
Our student and teacher curriculum partners include:
- African American Civil War Memorial and Museum
- Arlington National Cemetery
- The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- CMS Civic Mission of Schools
- ConSource
- C-SPAN
- DC Central Kitchen
- Embassy of Bahrain
- Embassy of Israel
- Embassy of Rwanda
- Embassy of Saudi Arabia
- Embassy of Switzerland
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Park
- Freedom Forum
- Freedom House
- iCivics
- International Spy Museum
- Library of Congress
- Morven Park Center for Civic Impact
- National Archives
- NACDD
- National Constitution Center
- Opportunity Nation
- PopVox
- President Lincoln’s Cottage
- The Public Sector Consortium
- Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution
- Sewall-Belmont House
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
- StreetLaw
- Teaching for Democracy Alliance
- Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
- United States Institute for Peace
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- U.S. Department of State
- U.S. Diplomacy Center at the State Department
- U.S. Federal Courts
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
- White House Historical Association
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
For more information on partnership opportunities with the Close Up Foundation, please contact us.
"I always focus on perspective and how we need to examine all sides of every issue and the Close Up program really emphasizes that."
