Resources for CES courses, examples of courses at GW (course reports, etc.)
Achieving Transformational Change in Promotion and Tenure Policies for Community-Engaged Scholarship, featuring Dr. Andy Furco, Dr. Jennifer Yee, and Dr. David Donahue. Sponsored by LEAD California, Collaboratory, and NC Campus Engagement.
Webinar recording available at the LEAD California Channel, along with previous webinars from their series on Promotion and Tenure.
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Fran Buntman (Sociology) and Wendy Wagner (Nashman Center) have been selected for the Civic Engagement and Voting Rights Teacher Scholars program (hosted by Clemson University and supported through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). They will spend the coming year engaged in nation-wide Faculty Learning Communities, attend an institute and several convenings, and will ultimately create and disseminate educational materials on civic and voting rights education. These include in-class learning activities, as well as syllabi that bring issues of civic engagement and voting rights into the classroom.
Professor SuJin Choi's GTCH 3103 is a Project Based Learning community engaged class where students craft mathematics and science lesson plans for implementation in Washington DC schools. These lesson plans and their creation are informed by the students’ observations and assistance in middle and high school classrooms, and what they have learned in the GW Teach classroom. As future educators, students gain in-classroom teaching experience throughout the semester, as they implement their lesson plans. Students in Professor Choi’s GTCH 3103 Project-Based Learning, designed full units of connected lesson plans for STEM courses in Washington DC public schools. Students served at 6 different high schools in the District. At these schools, students assisted in and taught various different STEM subjects, including environmental science, algebra, physics, and Biology.
For information about Community Engaged Scholarship at GW:https://go.gwu.edu/cesc
Professor Kamellia Keo's GTCH 2003 is a combination of GTCH 1001’s Inquiry Approaches to Teaching and GTCH 1002’s Inquiry-based Lesson Design. In order to gain teaching experience, students in Professor Keo’s class first observe the workings of a middle school classroom, then take those observations and apply them to the creation of a lesson plan. These lesson plans are then utilized in the classroom, with GTCH 2003 students engaging in instruction using the plans and procedures informed by their observations.
UW1020: Professional Communication in International Social Enterprises: A Community Engaged Scholarship Course in Partnership with Clinic+O, taught by Dr. Jessica McCaughey.
At its core, this course interrogates the question: How does writing allow mission-driven organizations to get work done? This first-year writing class is themed around the topic of international healthcare communication, particularly that of our class partner, Clinic+O, a relatively young organization in West Africa that is “committed to
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Our colleagues at Cornell have invited other institutions to attend this conversation. Please rsvp at the link to get the zoom.
Transformative Co-Creation: Epistemologies and Strategies for Collaborative Writing with Community Partners
Dr. Rachael Shah, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 12:00 PM,
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The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) released a statement on community engaged scholarship. The statement advises on the various components of community engaged scholarship. Click here to read the full statement. Thank you to Dr. Ryder for passing along this information.
Project Pericles is accepting applications for their Civic and Voter Engagement Fellowship. Fellows will receive a $1,000 grant to use Periclean Civic Engagement Resources in the humanities for Spring- Fall 2024. These modules help educate students about voter suppression and bridge the gap between academic content and the real world. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. Click here to learn more.
The Community-Based Global Learning Summit will be held on Nov 8 - 10, 2024 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, MA. Each CBGL Summit is geared to stimulating conversations about improving community engagement. This conversation is held with students, faculty, and community partners. The theme of the summit is Collaboration for a Better World: Global Learning, Hope, and Justice. The proposal deadline is midnight EDT on Monday, March 18, 2024. Click here to learn more and submit a proposal.
Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis
January 16, 2024 | 11:00 am–12:30 pm EST
Join this webinar that will highlight multi-disciplinary research on what works in civic education, with a dialogue on re-orienting teaching and learning toward meaningful civic outcomes.
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Several GW faculty have attended this Institute and found it valuable.
The Spring '24 Institute on Teaching Social Action will be held at Rhodes College in Memphis on March 9-10, 2024. They will also have two virtual Institutes scheduled, as well as a Fall '24 Institute at the University of Michigan. Applications are due on Friday, February 23. Apply for the Spring '24 Institute.
These cost-free Institutes are designed to give faculty and staff the knowledge and
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The Petey Greene Program, a GW community partner that supports the academic goals of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people through high-quality volunteer tutoring programs, is in search of volunteer instructors who are professors or graduate students in the humanities to their Spring 2024. If you are interested in the opportunity please email sfiorella@peteygreene.org as well as fill out our instructor application.
Dr. Erica Walls is Interim Director of GW's Human Services & Social Justice program (CCAS). Students in her courses complete projects in partnership with local nonprofit organizations.
In her course on Program Planning and Evaluation, students learn to gather and analyze data through interviews, surveys, and focus groups to inform practice. In her Social Justice and Public Policy course co-create a project with a community partner, such as collecting testimony for advocacy, tracking the progress of legislative initiatives, or managing public awareness social media campaigns.
Students like the opportunity to apply the concrete skills that are important to this work, but just as important is having the opportunity to pursue their passions, learn who they are and who they want to be in this world. - Erica Walls
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