by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, Mock Trial
The highly successful Pleasant Valley High School team of the 1980s which went to the statewide high school mock trial finals three consecutive years. The team went undefeated through the finals but finished third due to the scoring system used at the time.
by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, Teacher Training
Two members of the LEAP training team, circa early 1990s--both now have doctorates--Steve Klein, then of Dobbins Tech in Philadelphia (standing) and David Lonich, Ringgold High School in New eagle, PA (Washington County). Klein became a national trainer with the...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in the Schools
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.
by David Trevaskis | Jul 24, 2024 | LEAP, Teacher Training
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...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 7, 2024 | LEAP, Teacher Training
The North Allegheny educators George and Debbie Sagan bookend then Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the Supreme Court Institute run by Street Law, a national partner of LEAP, sometime in the mid-1990s. The program continues today, having brought more than 1500 hundred...
