What is Civics?
Civics is the knowledge and habits people use to participate in their communities.
Civics explains how decisions get made, who makes them, and how ordinary people take part in shaping the place where they live.
Civics answers two simple questions.
How does my community work?
What is my role in helping it work well?
Two ways to build a civically-engaged workplace.
Civics education helps people understand how decisions are made about schools, roads, taxes, regulations, and other public matters. Civics shows people how policies and laws are created, how leaders are chosen, and how public institutions function.
Civic engagement helps people take part in those decisions through voting, community involvement, service, or everyday responsibilities. Strong programs help people work together to solve shared problems (something workplaces are great at!).
Civics is also the shared foundation that helps our society work.
Civics includes the rights people hold, the responsibilities they share, and the norms that keep disagreement constructive. Civics helps people stay informed, participate respectfully, and support the common good.
That is it. No politics. No partisanship.
Just the shared systems, responsibilities, and behaviors that allow our communities and country to function.