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The Bonner Foundation is pleased to announce that we are hosting a virtual Teaching Social Action Summer ‘22 Institute on June 28-30. This three-day institute will introduce faculty and staff to an approach for incorporating social action campaigns into either a semester-long course or co-curricular workshop series. In this transformative experiential learning model, students develop and launch a social action campaign of their choosing during the semester the course is taught. The student campaigns seek to change a rule, regulation, norm, or practice of an institution, whether on campus or in the community. The formal application to join the Summer Institute cohort is due June 15, 2022. Read more here.
- Textbook by Scott Myers-Lipton, PhD., Professor, Sociology, San José State University, published by Routeledge
- In January, 2022, Routeledge Press will publish Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton's Guide to Teaching Social Action have all the questions to consider when starting, running, managing, and developing social action campaigns from colleges, universities, and even high schools. Included will be advice, lesson plans, examples, and resources all to encourage students to practice community organizing and change policies in their areas.
- An Introduction to Teaching Social Action — This 90 minute webinar, led by Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, was held on April 16, 2021 for 61 faculty and staff, provided an overview of a model for teaching social action where students launch a campaign during the semester the course is taught. This session was , a Sociology professor at San Jose State University, who has taught his social action course in the fall and spring semesters for more than a dozen years.
- If you would like to be included in our national learning community or would like more information, please contact Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton at smlipton@gmail.com or Bobby Hackett at rhackett@bonner.org.
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LCN supports college and university educators with developing courses in the practice of leadership, organizing, and action. Courses in organizing practice can enable students – and teachers – to develop an urgently needed capacity for civic leadership – and contribute to creating cultures of active citizenship in the college as a whole. The LNCTI creates opportunities for training, peer coaching, ongoing learning, mentoring, and sharing resources.
Marshall Ganz and collaborators have developed a pedagogy for introducing the practice of civic leadership, organizing and action to a rising generation. This approach is based on offering students an opportunity to organize others to work together to achieve shared purpose rooted in five specific practices: relationship building, story telling, strategizing, acting, and structuring leadership. Students commit to values based organizing projects that require mobilizing others to determine, strategize, and achieve an outcome by the end of the semester. Students’ learning is supported with lecture/discussion, readings, reflection papers, and skill workshops. Courses have been housed in a variety of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, political science, social work, public administration, and theology. Learning Resources
Syllabi, lesson plans, and activities provided by community colleges and university programs in Community Change Studies partnered with the Community Learning Partnerships. Designed to enhance students' knowledge, skills, commitment, and vision around social change and higher education, college partners develop the curriculum to prepare students to have professions in social action. Links follow the core subjects of Critical Consciousness, Organizing, Understanding the Region, Experimental Education, and Action Research.
Building Learning Community Online
These resources are provided by Marshall Ganz and his teaching colleagues. They can be of value to you in taking classes on line, taking an organizing project on line, and taking any kind of collaborative endeavor on line. They are based on 7 years experience developing online leadership, organizing and narrative courses on zoom like platform that enables experiential, interpersonal, and interdependent learning.
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- 60 minutes of online project coaching
- links to transition workshops being held by our teaching team.
16 toolkits on community engagement and social action. The Table of Contents shares 46 chapters provided to help faculty and students understand useful step-by-step guidance on community-building skills. Help Taking Action is a great introduction to learning about community organizing and the work being done near you.
