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Teaching and Learning for Social Impact

Learning from Seattle (and other cities): Place-Based Community Engagement for Justice and Equity

Our current pandemic context teaches us that place and relationship are central to our communal flourishing. This session is an opportunity about place-based community engagement strategies designed on the principle that communities and higher education institutions should work in long-term partnerships to identify pathways to greater equity, justice, and sustainability. Participants will learn the core values of place-based justice and hear various institutional examples.

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What: Curated Course Structures and Components 12 plain 2020-09-03T15:05:13-07:00
In the section “Some Hows for Community Engaged Courses” from this Teaching Schema, resources were organized topically. There were readings, videos, and podcasts, as well as some concrete tools that you could use for designing components of your community engaged courses. This section includes those course design tools and also adds additional resources that you may find helpful.
Full Courses & Syllabi
- Course Design Blueprint, created by Maine Campus Compact for the Fusion Course, to “map out how you plan to integrate community-based learning into your online course and will help you design a community-based project.”
- Campus Compact hosts a Syllabi Archive for community engaged courses. You can filter this archive by Discipline, Types of Instruction, Institution Type, Service Type, and Issue Area. To filter the archive, you will need to scroll down to see these options in the bar that runs along the left side of this page.
Assignments & Lesson Plans
- Civic Agency Workshops. A “series of experiential workshops…organized into the three themes—Self, Us, and Now—following Marshall Ganz’s public narrative framework.”
- Bonner Program Curriculum “to help students develop knowledge, skills, and values to engage in community well-being and social change efforts. On their 8 Themes Curriculum page, scroll down and click on the underlined topics that interest you.
- Reflection models. (More reflection resources available in the “Linking Academic and Community Learning”)
- Anatomy of an Ally Toolkit. This toolkit can be used with students to explore motivations for community engagement, reflect on them, and use those reflections to inform opportunities for growth. (Also found in “Engaging with Community”)
Other Resources
- Curriculum Collaboration Project Proposal. Template for outlining mutual understandings and expectations for collaboration on a proposed project in a class.
- Sam Fox Office for Socially Engaged Practice Blue Pages outline effective practices for working with individuals, communities, and organizations on social engaged projects.” They cover topics like,
- Using Community Capitals to Develop Assets for Positive Community Change
- Building and Maintaining Partnerships. This site covers many different considerations and also provides concrete tools. To start exploring, begin by reading the overview page , but be sure to click on the “Guides” link and anything else that interests you. (Also found in “Engaging with Community”)
- A Guide to Reciprocal Community-Campus Partnerships (Also found in “Engaging with Community”)
Curated General Resources
The following organizations are engaged in ongoing work on campus and community collaborations, including conferences, online resources, podcasts, and webinars.
Read
Listen
- Campus Compact Podcast https://compact.org/podcast/
Watch
- Campus Compact's YouTube channel has recordings of their 2020 Virtual Conference Sessions and recordings of previous webinars
- Communities in Partnership: Ensuring Equity in the Time of COVID-19
Experience
- Campus Compact Webinars
- AAC&U Webinars