Discussing presidential elections in the classroom always involves a certain level of risk. This is even more true in an election season contextualized by a national movement for racial justice and a global pandemic. In this session, ACE 23 graduate, Kelly Griffith Bell (principal of St. Laurentius School in Philadelphia), and ACE 18 graduate, Meghan McDermott (teacher educator at ACE Teaching Fellows and the University of Michigan), will present a framework for the pedagogical considerations that Catholic school teachers must make as we approach the November election. Participants will discuss strategies for engaging students in productive civic discourse in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.