Editor Bio & Contact Info

iCivics: Resources for Getting Involved & Taking Action

www.icivics.org This site provides teachers with free resources that improve students’ civic knowledge, civic attitudes, and core literacy skills. iCivis provides wonderful tools for educators and students. Take advantage of this great resource!

The KBA has resources for teachers. Visit: https://www.ksbar.org/page/educator_resources.

About the Law Wise Editor

Nicolas Toledo Shump is a social studies teacher at St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City, MO, where he teaches courses in US Government and Politics and Psychology. He is an online instructor for Constellation Learning, where he teaches classes in American Electoral Politics, AP Comparative Government and Politics, AP European History, AP US Government and Politics, AP US History, and AP World History. He served as a columnist for the Topeka Capital-Journal and Gannett Kansas from 2005-2020. Since 2012, he has been a Talk About Literature in Kansas (TALK) Discussion Leader for Humanities Kansas.

He can be reached at nicshump@gmail.com

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