Street Law, Inc.
Education. Empowerment. Justice.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
1) Young people lack the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be informed citizens and navigate a law-saturated society. --2) People are deprived of opportunities to find common ground and exercise active citizenship. --3) Communities face injustice based on race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and other identities. --4) Democratic culture and commitment to rule of law are in decline. --5) Systems are not meeting the needs of the people they are intended to serve. Street Law strives to address inequitable opportunities for marginalized communities to navigate a law-saturated society. Street Law aims to help people to work across differences in search of common ground. Street Law advances evidence-backed curricula and programs to advance civic literacy across the nation and globe. And Street Law endeavors to address democratic backsliding by fomenting a culture of democracy in the U.S. and abroad.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
We Build Civic Agency
From civic education to civic action, Street Law's work spans schools, communities, and government agencies across the United States and around the world. We have:
- Equipped thousands of teachers to integrate proven best practices in civic education into their classrooms.
- Built the capacity of public school systems, educators, and Ministries of Education to deliver civic education and use interactive teaching methodologies.
- Created a high school-level elective law course and authored an accompanying textbook that has been adopted by hundreds of school districts coast-to-coast.
- Pioneered the first high school mock trial competition, which is now a nationwide activity with a program in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
We Advance Equity and Justice
Street Law's community-centered programs and tailored curricula work to empower people who are vulnerable to injustice with essential knowledge and applicable skills to navigate law-saturated societies. We have:
- Built the capacity of marginalized communities--including people who are LGBTQ, survivors of domestic violence, and young people of color--with legal life skills to navigate their everyday lives.
- Proliferated the model of public legal education for community empowerment, which is now implemented by 200+ law schools worldwide.
- Partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice to bring Street Law programs to communities, reducing recidivism among youth diverted from the justice system.
- Built a unique legal diversity pipeline program, now replicated in more than 70 sites across the U.S.
We Build Bridges Across Differences
Street Law cultivates the skills that help people grapple with contentious issues through proven methodologies and interscholastic and intercultural exchanges. We have:
- Introduced Street Law's interactive methodologies for discussing contested public policy in school systems.
- Developed the Police & Teens Program, which allows young people and law enforcement to engage in constructive dialogue.
- Facilitated intercultural exchanges between educators across continents.
- Collaborated with local experts throughout the Middle East and North Africa to develop a textbook and educational campaign on the intersection between Islam and democracy.
We Foster Democratic Culture
Street Law's programs empower the next generation to become critical thinkers on issues of rule of law, democracy, equity, and justice. We have:
- Introduced a practical education model for teaching about democracy, seeding a movement that brought Street Law to 45 countries.
- Partnered with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania to bring rule of law education to schools across the United States.
- Built the capacity of educators, young people, community organizations, and government agencies in multiple countries around rule of law, human rights, and corruption.
- Developed youth action programs and curricula to teach advocacy strategies.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsNumber of beneficiaries per year
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Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
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Number of teachers trained
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We Build Civic Agency
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of attorney volunteers
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We Build Bridges Across Differences
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Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Through Street Law programs:
1) Young people are civically informed and active.
2) Communities vulnerable to injustice are empowered to navigate law-saturated societies.
3) Participants have the knowledge and skills to grapple with contentious issues and find common ground.
4) The next generation develops the critical thinking skills necessary to advance rule of law, democracy, equity, and justice.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To achieve its mission, Street Law employs demand-driven, learner-centered programs, utilizing best practices in the field.
To maximize the reach of our programs and ensure systems-level influence, we partner with the education sector, government, the private sector, and community/civil society organizations to develop inclusive, scalable, and cutting-edge civic and public legal education initiatives. These partnerships build capacity to achieve positive educational outcomes and increase access to legal knowledge.
These partnerships help us reach 2 million young people annually, with a specific concentration on advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion by reaching young people vulnerable to injustice. In doing so, we deploy technology for access and inclusion and employ a train-the-trainer model to sustain impact.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
EXPERIENCE:
- Street Law is a leader in its field, having worked on these programs for over five decades!
- Our program offerings reach all 50 states and over 45 countries worldwide.
- We have decades of partnerships with scores of agencies, companies, and organizations in the public and private sectors.
EXPERTISE:
- We have a proven learner-centered pedagogy.
- Street Law's practical balanced curricula focus on civic education, democracy, rule of law, and deliberative discussions.
- Our unparalleled curricular library brings our expertise into classrooms and communities across the country and around the world, including the Street Law and US Government textbooks.
- Street Law has programs that diversify the legal field.
NETWORKS:
- Street Law has a deep network of hundreds of school districts and thousands of classroom teachers across the U.S.
- Street Law has partnerships in place with legal professionals and preeminent national and international law firms.
- Street Law has unique access to a network of law schools and law-themed high schools across the globe.
LEADERSHIP:
- Street Law is a leading voice in civic and public education.
- Street Law is a recognizable name for global experts in the field--we are stalwarts of civic education!
- Street Law is an active influencer in the civic and justice education fields--we are a founding member of the Civics Renewal Network, a task force member or the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap, a member of CivXNow, and a participant in the Global Alliance for Justice Education.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since 1972, Street Law’s programming has reached millions across the US and in 45 countries worldwide. Key accomplishments include:
- Proliferated the model of law students teaching in schools and communities, which first began 50 years ago at Georgetown now adopted at 200 law schools around the globe.
- Created a high school-level elective law course and authored an accompanying textbook that has been adopted in hundreds of school districts from coast to coast.
- Pioneered the first high school mock trial competition―now a nationwide activity with a program in each state.
- Worked with a major commercial publisher to modify its high school government text to include deliberations and other cutting edge, student-centered pedagogies.
- Built a unique legal diversity pipeline program that partners nearly 2,000 lawyers from law firms and law departments with high school classes in dozens of U.S. cities.
- Introduced our model of practical education about democracy, law, and human rights to apartheid-era South Africa, seeding a movement that has brought Street Law programming to 45 countries.
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Street Law, Inc.
Board of directorsas of 09/14/2023
Mr. Christophe Mosby
HP, Inc.
Term: 2021 - 2024
Jim Burch
National Policing Institute
Patrick Campbell
Milbank
Allison Cohen
Langley High School
Mike Gee
McGraw-Hill Education
Scott Hershman
White & Case
Peter Levine
Tufts University
Francis Mendez
ICF
Christophe Mosby
HP Inc.
Erika Gardner
The Home Depot
Jenifer Robbins
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Carrie Valiant
Epstein Becker Green
Davina Biddle
Mike Ciatti
King & Spalding
Adam Kushner
Hogan Lovells
Erin Murphy
Clement & Murphy
Jeffrey Kirsh
Coca-Cola (ret.)
David Huebner
Huebner Arbitration
Lafir Thassim
UBS
Bill Van Saders
Verizon
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