kidLAW® Teacher Training  

Steve Brown has trained teachers in kidLAW® for over a decade through the kidLAW® Teacher Training Institute, workshops sponsored by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education, and school trainings in districts such as Toledo (OH), Seattle, Mercer Island and Puyallup. 

Teacher Training is available is several ways:

At a school, school district or independent school consortium.  Six-twelve hours of initial teacher training, with ongoing consultation and coaching.  Cost range:  $1500-5000.

Usually held in August in Kent, Washington at the Regional Justice Center (Courthouse). Cost: $185.  For a sample form, See Brochure/Registration section of this web page.

Design your own program with Steve Brown to fit your particular needs.  For example:  Steve has recently been working in several schools where he has mixed training and coaching with classroom teaching.  Cost:  negotiable.

kidLAW® Classroom Programs

8-10 hours of classroom instruction by Steve Brown of kidLAW®.  The interactive, high-energy program has four major components:

kidLAW® Summer Programs

Week-long day camps for young lawyers, culminating in mock trials based on movies, with parents serving as jury members.  

Recent movies include “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Catch Me if You Can,” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”  Sponsoring partners include University of Washington Educational Outreach, Coyote Junior High, and Mercer Island Parks and Recreation. 

Potential partners should contact Steve Brown.  Interested parents and young people can contact Steve directly by e-mail about planned camps for 2007.

kidLAW® Consulting

Assists the classroom teacher in facilitating his/her own classroom mock trial through e-mail and phone consultation.  You get:

 Cost: $60.

 Steve Brown is also available to make curriculum and legal publications more kid-friendly.  In 2004, Steve assisted with curriculum for the Environmental & Land use section of the Washington State Bar Association and on an employment law pamphlet for the United States Department of Labor.  Cost:  negotiable

kidLAW® Consulting for Volunteer Lawyers

Assists the volunteer lawyer in putting on a mock trial in a classroom through personalized in person, e-mail and phone consultation.

Up to an hour and a half of consultation, including an in-person meeting, about presenting, organizing, and facilitating a classroom mock trial, and tips on working with classroom teachers. 

The trial scenario – including introductory form(s), jury instructions and a jury verdict form – for any book, play, movie or original creation previously used by kidLAW®   See the catalogue section of this web page. 

Copies of selected kidLAW® worksheets for use in your volunteer classroom. 

Cost:  $125.

kidLAW® Town Meetings

Steve Brown of kidLAW® is also available to facilitate classroom Town Meetings on historical, political or literary subjects.

 Recent topics include:  Should the United States drop the atom bomb on Japan? Whose fault is the Civil War? Should students’ First Amendment free speech rights be limited in school?

 As with classroom mock trials, the kidLAW® approach is to “plug in” to the classroom curriculum, and encourage role-playing and the use of historical and fictional characters.

Cost range:  $175-$250.