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"When "I" is replaced by "We", even illness becomes wellness"--Malcolm X
"When "I" is replaced by "We", even illness becomes wellness"--Malcolm X
Dear Faculty,
The following are resources that you can use/ assign in place of community engagement to provide further context regarding the issues, the people, the organizations and schools that your students have been working with. Students can draw on their community engagement experiences thus far and then continue to expand their understanding through the videos, podcasts, other reading--so that the SL Learning Outcomes can be addressed and they can still write an informed integrative paper at the end of the semester. As a lot of resources are coming up to also connect with the current public health crisis and connections with disciplinary and community content, I'm including these resources as well. Please feel free to contact me at any time. I have more materials in specific content but don't want to overwhelm everyone, including myself! Please scroll to the bottom to find many important resources for students to continue to understand the specifics of the Marin context and resources per specific issues (Ed Equity, Immigration, etc.)
National and Overarching Resources:
An excellent curated lists of resources for Social Justice, Trauma-Informed and Distance Learning.
Academics for Black Survival and Wellness: Anti-Racist Resources
Great resources and module model! Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions
HIGHLY RECOMMEND--a gold mine: coronavirus syllabus--many, many resources for all disciplines in this crowdsourced google doc Including the humanities coronavirus syllabus
Imagining America: Weaving our We--Small Yet Significant Kindnesses in the Time of COVID-19. A collection of resources to combat isolation
Hope Matters: the most practical and humane list I've read so far, things that are easy to do and don't involve new technology
Racial Equity Tools: COVID-19 - Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources
COVID-19: Using a Racial Justice Lens Now to Transform Our Future
Othering and Belonging Institute-COVID-19: Mapping vulnerable populations in California
Coronavirus readings for artists: Someone built this very beautiful and inspiring collection of readings, projects, statements--we are all artists of life--and these are life-giving.
Community Based Learning in times of Social Distancing, Isolation and Quarantine (good ideas gathered here)
IUPUI Continuing community engaged teaching during COVID-19 (scroll to Step Two: Be creative and plan--excellent resources here).
Accessible Teaching in the Time of COVID – 19 – subject/course topic. This could easily be adapted for use re: service and experiential learning or civic learning.
What individual and group activities can you use to reveal individual and shared class knowledge from previous community engagement writing assignments/GivePulse impacts to guide discussion and assignments for the rest of the semester? Retrieval Practice activities may be helpful in finding and reinforcing that knowledge.
Insightful points: Doing a Bad Job of Putting Your Course Online
Teaching an Online Social Action Course (webinar)
Other Sites with videos and lesson plans: TED-Ed (search by subject, check out CIVICS) , Edmodo, PBS Learning Media, the Greater Good Science Center out of UC Berkeley, offers this new platform that provides research-based strategies and practices for the social, emotional, and ethical development.
Making the Move to Online Courses: Resources to Inform Teaching and Learning (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment.
Coronavirus as a Teachable Classroom Moment Engaging Students Across the Curriculum
Service Learning During Coronavirus: Easy Ideas for Every Subject
Equity and Social Justice related Community Based Learning Resources
I've loosely organized the resources below per the SL Program Learning Outcomes as this might support your thinking about how to organize online modules:
1. Practice principles of community engagement and social responsibility:
1. Practice principles of community engagement and social responsibility:
Critical Reflection: Websites, Reading, and Prompts:
Cultural Humility Video-this 30 minute video offers an important framework and perspective regarding how we see our own roles, life-long learning about ourselves and others, address unjust power dynamics, and institutional accountability.
Public health crisis often serve as a window into how individuals’ understand their role and obligations to others in society because we are often asked to change our patterns of behavior or interactions with others.
How do you understand your obligations and responsibilities to others, specifically to the community members with whom you were working? Has this experience challenged or confirmed that?
For Ethics and other classes: Article: The Shift Americans Must Make to Fight the Coronavirus: Americans have allowed ourselves to believe that the self, rather than the community, must do all the healing. COVID-19 is a stark reminder that the community, rather than the self, may be the first line of protection. . . COVID-19 gives us an opportunity to frame our fears not in the context of panic or overwhelming anxiety, but as care. Our interconnectedness is part of the very meaning of life. Prompt: What have you learned about the importance of interconnection and community from your initial weeks at your community partner site? What have you learned about care?
NYTimes Op Ed, David Brooks: Compassion in times of Pandemic.
Center for Civic Reflection---use one of the discussion plans, facilitator summaries and additional resources available to engage students in reflective dialogue on a range of topic with the current crisis as the source of experience. Here are some examples:
Do something https://www.dosomething.org/us This organization is oriented toward encouraging people to engage in social action and then to share their campaigns and actions with others.
2. Apply learning in social context(s):
2. Apply learning in social context(s):
Racial Equity Tools: https://www.racialequitytools.org/home This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities and the culture at large. The learning modules here include PPP, videos and discussion questions on a variety of very relevant topics--all set to be embedded in an online format. Also go to their Fundamentals resource page and search by Core Concept for very on point resources. Check out the "plan" and "act" sections as well. For example, under Plan "Arts and Culture" and their list of organizations and practices. Highly recommend!
Global Oneness Project https://www.globalonenessproject.org This website focuses on the power of stories and storytelling in educating people for compassion and social change. Many of the videos are short and offer accompanying lesson plans. For example, 15 Lesson Plans Exploring Our Common Humanity.
Teaching Tolerance https://www.tolerance.org/classroom-resources This site is oriented toward K-12 teaching but it has a host of resources, some of which are adaptable for college and online assignments.
Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/topics Facing History teaches how categorizing people as “other” has been used in the past as the basis for segregation, apartheid, and genocide. A wide range of topics with recommended readings and lesson plans. For example: Religion, Immigration, and Belonging. NEWS FLASH, they just posted this lesson: Coronavirus, Protect Yourself Against and Stand Against Racism
Zinn Education Project introduces students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. Teaching Materials https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials . For example, here are a range of teaching activities at an adult level (you can choose).
E3 Resources (a Marin non-profit) (these are for high school students yet easily adaptable for our classes--a huge range of materials from history to environmental science.
3. Value community voice and knowledge
3. Value community voice and knowledge
Canal Community--demographics and much more--see PowerPoints here.
Marin City Context resources--go here for comprehensive list of news articles, videos, podcasts and more.
Voces Del Canal: Building SafeCommunities Through StrongPartnerships in the Canal (2014): a coalition of resident leaders from the community came together to form Voces del Canal to lead an unprecedented community-driven research project. Residents wanted to affirm their role as authentic, local experts and give power to the collective experiences of 678 residents who shared their personal stories, opinions, and vision for a stronger and safer Canal.
Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities: This letter counsels a shift away from documenting (and seeing) "disenfranchised" communities only (or primarily) in terms of loss and pain. Instead, Tuck argues for the importance of a desire-based research framework which is more "concerned with understanding complexity, contradiction, and the self-determination of lived lives...documenting not only the painful elements of social realities but also the wisdom and hope." Depathologizing the experiences of dispossessed and disenfranchised communities is important so that people are seen as more than broken and conquered. This is to say that even when communities are broken and conquered, they are so much more than that—so much more that this incomplete story is an act of aggression.
TEDX: Finding Cesar Chavez -- a transformative moment | Jose Calderon |
Podcasts: Ear Hustle, This American Life,
4. Critically reflect on root causes of systemic social/environmental issues
4. Critically reflect on root causes of systemic social/environmental issues
Talking About Race: Social Identities and Systems of Oppression: A very clear series of definitions and videos
Teaching Tolerance: Teaching Hard History Key Concept Videos (excellent series of videos focused on multiple aspects of slavery)
The Advancement Project: Covid-19 Rapid Response: Advancement Project California, with the support and advice of several partners, is releasing policy briefs, research, and letters to bring awareness to the racial inequities unearthed by this pandemic and offering concrete recommendations to the officials that represent Californians. California will overcome this crisis by ensuring education policy, budgeting, and democracy issues are informed by those impacted most by COVID-19 – low-income communities of color.
Understand complexity: When Should Schools Close For Coronavirus? What are some of the structural issues mentioned in this article that make closing schools a very hard decision for already marginalized communities?
If you don't already have an assignment that ask students to research a structural issue that impacts people at their community partner site, consider giving students a range of topics and asking them to do a PPP presentation, video, or paper: What is the issue and does this relate to the mission of their community partner? How does structural issue or root cause limit opportunities for the people they have been working with? How is their community partner seeking to address this issue? What are some other models to create sustainable change per this issue?
Community Context Worksheets
Marin Context:
Marin Context:
Marin Race Counts Report
Canal Alliance Resources/Canal Alliance Issue Brief “Latinos and Education”
Portrait of Marin (download full report and go here for interactive Marin map)
On the Divide: Examining Racial Segregation in Marin, DUC thesis
Sanctuary split: While SF jail snubs ICE, Marin County does the opposite
Marin Promise Ed Data (also see Marin Promise Fact Sheets uploaded below)
Issues/Themes
Issues/Themes
Education Equity
Californians for All (lots of data and resources)
ProPublica Interactive Map, Miseducation: Is There Racial Inequality at Your School? With schools--note demographics per suspension rates, enrollment in AP classes, graduation rates, compare to other schools in district etc.
Immigration
Migration Policy Institute (RESEARCH AND REPORTS ACROSS MANY TOPICS)
Food Insecurity
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