LEAP in Action

LEAP LRE trainer and North Allegheny High School teacher George Sagan with then Pennsylvania State Senator and future United States Congresswoman Melissa Hart with North Allegheny students discussing how laws are made, circa 1993. The students were lobbying for a bill...

The boys of LEAP, circa 1994…Left to right, the late David Vanderhoof, LEAP Scholar in Residence in the early 1990s, a Pennsylvania mock trial author before taking a teaching position at UNC–Penrose where he helped bring the national high school mock trial finals to...

LEAP staffer David Keller Trevaskis (on left) with PCSS President Steve Bullick ( on right) honoring LEAP trainers George and Debbie Sagan from North Allegheny School District. They are being honored for work done with North Allegheny students on a bill ( it failed...

Check out the picture of Judge Marvin Halbert. The event was a LEAP statewide training session at Chestnut Hill’s Sugarloaf Conference Center probably in the late 80s or early 90s. The late Judge Halbert was a longtime supporter of LEAP and his wife, Marcia, is a...

Bob Catina, an original participant in the LEAP-Pleasant Valley School District partnership in 1985, still is engaged in civics having served many years now as a Court Tipstaff in Monroe County after retiring from 36 years as the Pleasant Valley High School Business...

The late Judge Clifford Scott Green, LEAP's early champion, talks to Philadelphia students (can anyone identify the school) as then LEAP Executive Director Beth Farnbach looks on.

Here are materials and an article describing a project conducted by former LEAP trainer and North Allegheny social studies teacher George Sagan in which his students worked to get legislation passed banning the release of latex balloons filled with helium because the...