Category Archives: Instructional and Training Resources

Newly Finalized Qualitative Assessment Project Documents

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Chicago Debate League

We have spent some significant time in June reviewing, revising, and finalizing key documents created for the Qualitative Assessment Project. (Special thanks to CDC part-time staffer and NU graduate student Desiree Weber for her great work on these.) Resultantly, there … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago Student Training Seminar — May 26th

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Chicago Debate League

The University of Chicago Rising Phoenix Debate Society is offering another in its Policy Debate Training Series on Saturday, May 26th, 10am – 12pm, on the Hyde Park campus of the University of Chicago. This session will be literature-based introduction … Continue reading →

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Social Science 2.0 Framework Professional Development Academy

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Chicago Debate League

This Social Science PD Academy is designed based on the Common Core State Standards, which centrally incorporate the key academic debate skills of argument, textual evidence, refutation, and evaluation of competing points of view. All K-12 Social Science teachers in … Continue reading →

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Got Flow Paper?

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Chicago Debate League

All CDL squads should come to T4 with what Saturday Night Live Coneheads Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtin used to call “mass quantities” of flow paper. In several site visits I did this week I noticed that no one seemed … Continue reading →

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