Service Learning Announcements & Updates
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A Summer of
Community-Based Learning!
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Check out CPS Students' Projects
in the News this Summer!
Educators with the Hull-House Museum work with Armour students to consider their community
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Thank you for joining us at
It was great to see many of you at our conference! Please look out for upcoming opportunities to continue to learn together to address racial equity in our classrooms, schools, and communities.
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Opportunities for Students
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Join Cause the Effect Chicago for our third annual Young Feminist Conference!
Feminists of all ages are welcomed and encouraged to attend our FREE conference to learn more about the issues that affect us HERE and NOW, and how our collective voices and actions can create the change we want to see in our communities, our city, and our country.
October 6, 9 am-2pm
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Are you a teen who wants to...
...learn more about the arts?
...develop as a leader?
...positively impact your community?
...meet peers who share your interests?
Join us for teen programs in design/build and arts administration.
Click
here
to learn more about Arts + Public Life programs
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Don't miss the amazing
Including:
General Teacher Updates
...
And Other Opportunities!
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Opportunities for Teachers
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Exciting Fall Field Trip Opportunities!
Forced from Home comes to Chicago
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is coming to Chicago’s Daley Plaza with an exciting field trip opportunity for students this Fall! We will be hosting our
Forced From Home
exhibition on the global refugee crisis from Monday, September 24
th
-28
th
, 2018 and it will be a great opportunity for a beginning of year field trip for Chicago’s 7
th
-12
th
grade students.
The Forced From Home education webpage for teachers (
http://www.forcedfromhome.com/school-field-trips-to-forced-from-home/
) has all the information you will need, including an Education Resource Toolkit for teachers to use in their curriculum should they desire. Please note that
pre-registration for school tours during the hours of 9am-1pm is mandatory
.
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Connect your students with Chicago Ideas Week!
Ideas can be a vehicle for change, action and impact in our own communities and beyond. Chicago Ideas Week is back this October 15-21 with hundreds of events that will push you to reinterpret the limits of possibility and inspire you to be the change you've been waiting to see. Come join your fellow changemakers for a week you won't forget.
In addition to the topics you see here, this year's program will explore the
near future of artificial intelligence
, how millennials have
transformed religion
, cultural change through
radical creativity
and much more. You can use filters to explore onstage programs or more than 85 hands-on Labs, and sort events by topic. As always, you'll leave each program with tangible ways to take action.
Check out the exciting schedule
here
!
And
here's
a list of programs and a lesson plan to support a
Chicago Ideas Week speakers are available to come to your class! Please contact Lindsay Knight if you're interested:
lindsay@chicagoideas.com
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Please join us next Wednesday September 5th for a live panel event featuring supportive educators from around the country and hosted by Stephanie Byers, GLSEN's Educator of the Year.
Tune in to see how these amazing educators and administrators plan to create safe and affirming classrooms with LGBTQ visibility during this upcoming school year. They will be sharing their first person experiences, goals for the upcoming school year, and strategies they use in their schools.
If you would like to ask a question of the panel, please send an email to
educators@glsen.org
and we will try to address your question during the event.
Join us at 6PM EST on September 5th by visiting
glsen.org/live
, and share this event with your colleagues to include them in the conversation on how we are working to make our schools safer spaces for all students every day.
In the meantime, don't forget to
register for Ally Week
which will be September 24-29 this year. Registering will give you access to free streaming resources, a NEW educator guide, and more.
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Content-Area Supports for
Service Learning
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Including resources such as:
Groundwork USA is currently looking for additional participants to try out the curriculum and provide feedback to directly improve the next edition. The curriculum appeals to a variety of learning styles, is adaptable to learners of most ages (upper middle school to adults) and can be completed in three class sessions or extended into many different kinds of long-term projects.
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New Resources for Language Arts, Social Science, World Languages:
Features the stories of three educators from Oakland, California - Nina Portugal, Jason Muniz, and Jo Paraiso - who actively use blogging to empower their students. Check out this
CERG video
to watch Nina, Jason, and Jo implement a blogging lesson in their classrooms and to hear them discuss how blogging increases the civic voice of their students. You can also click on the links below to read
Nina
and
Jason's
blog posts detailing which platforms they use, how they structure their lessons, and what they've learned in the process.
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Join the Chicago Council and the Pulitzer Center on Sept 24
Please join the Council and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting on Monday, September 24 for a one-hour workshop, “
Teaching the Visual Story of Climate Change and Pollution
.” This interactive session, with participation by career photographers Larry C. Price and George Steinmetz, will explore some exciting ways that teachers from grades 6-12 can bring the stunning work of these and other photojournalists into their classroom.
We will examine the questions:
Why is it important to make global problems visible? What power do photographs have that words do not; and how can we use that power in different ways? How do we write captions?
Featured activities will encourage students to create and evaluate visual representations of climate change and pollution in order to interpret and share environmental knowledge effectively. Attendees will leave with resources and ideas to teach, and equip educators in their schools to teach, the challenging topics of climate change and global pollution in ways that will ignite the interest of students.
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Featured Service Learning Resources
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Project
website offers free, downloadable lessons and articles organized by
theme
,
time period
, and grade level. Based on the approach to history highlighted in
Howard Zinn
’s best-selling book
A People’s History of the United States
, these teaching materials emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history.
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In this article, you’ll find 43 thoughtful, replicable ideas from classrooms across the U.S., including Chicago! Join the conversation: Email
LNFeedback@nytimes.com
to share
how you help your students make these kinds of connections — and why.
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Teaching Tolerance
has new Election Resources and other great supports for service learning. More electoral engagement resources coming soon!
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