Sphere Summit I: The Foundations of Civic Culture

4:00 – 5:30 pm: Registration

5:30 – 6:15 pm: Welcome Reception

6:15 – 7:00 pm: Dinner and Welcoming Remarks

7:00 – 8:00 pm: Diner Program: A Conversation with Lenore Skenazy, President and Co‐​Founder, Let Grow

8:00 – 9:00 am: Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 am: Civic Culture and Foundations: Is Free Speech Being Chilled in the Classroom – And Beyond?

• Jonathan Rauch, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
• Nadine Strossen, Professor Emerita, New York Law School, and past national President, ACLU

10:00 – 10:30 am: Application Workshops: Debate Centered Instruction

• Robert Litan, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Cofounder, The American Lyceum

10:30 – 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Challenges to Free Speech and Civil Discourse in Your School

12:00 – 12:55: Lunch

1:00 – 2:10 pm: Policy Discussions: Criminal Justice Reform

• Jay Schwikert, Research Fellow, Project on Criminal Justice Reform, Cato Institute
• Annalies Goger, Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
• John Malcolm, Vice President, Institute for Constitutional Government, and Director, Meese Center, Heritage Foundation

2:15 – 3:30 pm: Supreme Court Review

• Thomas Berry, Research Fellow, Cato Institute

3:30 – 4:00 pm: Break

4:00 – 5:00 pm: Foundations of Civic Culture: Human​Progress​.Org

• Chelsea Follett, Policy Analyst and Managing Editor of Human​progress​.org, Cato Institute
• Elyse Alter, Content Development Manager, Sphere Education Initiatives

5:05 – 5:35 pm: Application Workshop: Bringing Civil Discourse to Your Classroom

5:35 – 6:30: Break

6:30 – 7:30 pm: Dinner Conference Center

7:30 – 8:30 pm: Dinner Program: A Conversation with Shariff El‐​Mekki, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Black Educator Development

7:30 – 9:00 am: Civic Culture and Foundations: Breakfast and The Story of Civil Society

• Tom Palmer, Executive Vice President for International Programs, Atlas Network and Senior Fellow, Cato Institute (Virtual)

9:00 am – 1:00 pm: Free morning in DC

• Resume Workshop (9:15 – 10:15 am)

1:00 – 1:55 pm: Policy

Session A: Foreign Policy: The War in Ukraine

• Sahar Kahn, Research Fellow, Cato Institute
• Melanie Sisson, Fellow, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, Brookings Institution
• Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow, Defense Programs, Center for the National Defense, Heritage Foundation

Session B: The Health Care Divide

• Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute
• Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent, HuffPost

2:00 – 3:00 pm: Policy Workshop: Tech Policy: AI, Social Media, and Big Tech

• Will Duffield, Policy Analyst, Cato Institute
• Nicol Turner Lee, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, and Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution
• Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow, Technology and Innovation, R Street

3:05 – 4:00 pm: Understanding Each Other: Moral Courage and a New Approach to Diversity

• Irshad Manji, Founder, Moral Courage

4:00 – 4:30 pm: Break

4:30 – 5:30 pm: Application Workshop

• Bill of Rights Institute
• Constructive Dialogue Institute
• Foundation for Economic Education
• Let Grow (Middle School Session)

6:15 – 6:30 pm: Travel to Library of Congress

6:30 – 7:00 pm: Reception

7:00 – 8:00 pm: Dinner

8:00 – 9:00 pm: Dinner Program: Challenges and Opportunities Across Disciplines

• Kim Holder, Past President, National Association for Economic Education, and Senior Lecturer of Economics, University of West Georgia
• Emily Kirkpatrick, Executive Director, National Council of Teachers of English
• Shannon Pugh, President, National Council for the Social Studies, and Director of Community and School Programming, Anne Arundel Public Schools

7:00 – 8:00 am: Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 am: Understanding Each Other: Members of Congress

9:00 – 10:00 am: The Health of Our Democracy

10:00 – 10:30 am: Break

10:30 – 11:30 am: Application Workshops

• National Constitution Center
• Retro Report
• Stossel in the Classroom

11:30 – 12:00 pm: Lesson Plan Workshops

• Elyse Alter, Content Development Manager, Sphere Education Initiatives
• Allan Carey, Director, Sphere Education Initiatives
• John Snoad, Educator Engagement Specialist, Sphere Education Initiatives

12:00 – 1:15 pm: Lunch

1:15 – 2:15 pm: Policy Discussions

• Session A: Immigration Policy
  • Alex Nowrasteh, Vice President for Economic and Social Policy Studies, Cato Institute
• Session B: Islam and Liberty, The Challenges and the Hope
  • Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute
  • Sahar Kahn, Research Fellow, Cato Institute

2:20 – 3:15: Policy Discussions: Debt and Spending

• Romina Boccia, Director of Budget and Entitlement Policy, Cato Institute
• Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
• Veronique de Rugy, George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy, and Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center

3:15 – 3:45 pm: Break

3:45 – 4:45 pm: Civic Culture: Critical Social Justice Pedagogy and Black Well‐​Being

• Tabia Lee, Founding Member, Free Black Thought
• Erec Smith, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, York College

4:45 – 10 pm: Free evening in DC

9:00 – 10:00 am: Brunch

10:00 – 10:45 am: Application Workshop: Sphere in the Classroom

• Elyse Alter, Content Development Manager, Sphere Education Initiatives

10:45 – 11:15 am: Application Workshop: Sphere on the Road

• John Snoad, Educator Engagement Specialist, Sphere Education Initiatives

11:15 – 11:30 am: Closing Remarks

• Allan Carey, Director, Sphere Education Initiatives

11:30 – 11:45 am: Stipend and Certificate Distribution