The 25th annual Educating for Citizenship conference was held in Lakewood at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel on December 4, 2009. Colorado organizations and public officials who share CELD’s interest in providing teachers of civic education with content updates and resources, best practice strategies, and new lessons collaborated to offer 20 or more concurrent sessions.

2009 Conference co-sponsors were:

• Center for Education in Law and Democracy (CELD)
• Center for Civic Education
• Center for Teaching International Relations, University of Denver
• Colorado Bar Foundation and Colorado Bar Association
• Colorado Council on Economic Education and the Federal Reserve Bank
• Colorado Council for the Social Studies
• Colorado Judicial Branch
• University of Northern Colorado/Institute for Civic Education