The week of
January 2, 2024
Other Local Events and Workshops
Virtual FACT Workshop: A Toolbox: Supporting Social and Emotional Learning at Home & School – Jan 25
School District of Philadelphia Office of Family and Community Engagement
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) offers FREE in-person and virtual workshops for families and School District of Philadelphia community members. Our workshops support personal growth,...
Virtual FACT Workshop: Brain Development in Children & Teens – Jan 23
School District of Philadelphia Office of Family and Community Engagement
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) offers FREE in-person and virtual workshops for families and School District of Philadelphia community members. Our workshops support personal growth,...
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) Workshops – Jan 20
School District of Philadelphia Office of Family and Community Engagement
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) offers FREE in-person and virtual workshops for families and School District of Philadelphia community members. Our workshops support personal growth,...
Virtual FACT Workshop: You Can Go: Foster/Kinship Care to College – Jan 11
School District of Philadelphia Office of Family and Community Engagement
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) offers FREE in-person and virtual workshops for families and School District of Philadelphia community members. Our workshops support personal growth,...
Virtual FACT Workshop: Understanding Student Assessments – Jan 9
School District of Philadelphia Office of Family and Community Engagement
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) offers FREE in-person and virtual workshops for families and School District of Philadelphia community members. Our workshops support personal growth,...
Gesu School’s 26th Annual Symposium on Education – Jan 12
Gesu School
We invite you to attend our 26th Annual Symposium on Education on Friday, January 12, 2024. The topic will be “AI Empowerment: Ushering Students and Teachers into the Age of Artificial...
Benjamin Herold – Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs – Jan 23
Free Library of Philadelphia
On January 23, 2024, at 7:30 PM at the Parkway Central Library in Philadelphia, PA please join journalist and educator Benjamin Herold in conversation with Kristen Graham, education reporter for The...
New Resources
Bonner Foundation Resources for Faculty Development
Bonner Foundation
The Bonner Foundation’s Wiki has great ideas for faculty development. Session Titles at a Glance: (NOTE: the link for each item below is available at the Wiki link above) #1: ...
Article: Tackling the Teacher Shortage: Montclair Launches First NJ Apprenticeship Program Backed by Department of Labor
Montclair State University
Montclair State University has launched the first Teacher Certification Apprenticeship Program in the state of New Jersey backed by the Department of Labor, directly addressing the national teacher...
Article: Grant to train new teachers for high-need urban schools
The California State University
The College of Education at Cal State LA has been awarded a $7 million grant from the Department of Education (ED) to continue the success of the university’s Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency...
Toolkit for Engaging Diverse Communities to Plan and Implement Public Health Programs
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
This toolkit outlines the steps for public health programs that engage communities. Its goal is to share how to work well with communities and describes community partners’ role in improving...
New Toolkits from the Community Engagement Consultative Resource (CEACR)
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
As part of the CEACR project, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and our partners at University of Pittsburgh CTSI have published 3 new toolkits to support community-engaged research....
New Article: Community-Engaged Research – Essential to Addressing Health Inequities
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH)
Check out our outstanding perspective article championing community-engaged research for reducing and eliminating health disparities co-written by Consuelo Wilkins (Senior Vice President and Senior...
Philadelphia Sets the Standard as the First Certified Sensory Inclusive City!
Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities
The Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, in partnership with KultureCity, has successfully led Philadelphia to become the first certified Sensory Inclusive City! A press conference was...
PHL Youth Social Impact Report 2021 – 2023
City of Philadelphia
To Young Philadelphia & Our Allies, We made it. We know how incredibly trying the past couple of years have been. As a family we’ve navigated a global pandemic, virtual learning & social...
Speak out eCourse: How to Create Brave & Safer Spaces in an Anxious World
SpeakOut
This course focuses on facilitating difficult conversations and creating safe spaces for exploring power, privilege, and social identity differences in order to promote equity and social justice. How...
Camden Eastside High’s Assistant Principal Helps Students Realize Their Full Potential
TapintoCamden
Iran L. Mercado had some amazing teachers while attending Creative Arts High School. Even so, he faced academic challenges after graduating as salutatorian of his Creative Arts High School’s...
Civic and Community Engagement Benefits Topical Briefs
NC Campus Engagement
The Topical Briefs are a set of more developed pieces on the topical areas included in the Primer on the Benefits and Value of Higher Education Civic and Community Engagement. They are intended to...
National Conferences & Calls for Proposal
Compact24 full agenda online now!
Campus Compact
COMPACT24, Now is the Moment: Higher Education Civic & Community Engagement as the Way Forward is Campus Compact’s 2024 National Conference on April 7-10, 2024 in Denver, CO. Now is the...
Call for Proposals: Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference – Feb 11
Harvard College Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship
The Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on Thursday, April 18th and Friday, April 19th, 2024. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is available now and...
National Service-Learning Conference, Apr 3-6
National Youth Leadership Council
Experience The 35th Annual National Service-Learning Conference, April 3 – 6, 2024 in Saint Paul, MN – the largest and most comprehensive global convening for service-learning educators,...
Grant Opportunities
Aim High grant program for afterschool programs – Feb 1
Afterschool Alliance
New York Life Foundation, Afterschool Alliance invite proposals for middle school out-of-school time programs New York Life Foundation and Afterschool Alliance have requested the Aim High grant...
Projects in Aging – Feb 1
Retirement Research Foundation
Retirement Research Foundation invites applications for projects in aging Since 1979, the Chicago-based RRF Foundation for Aging has supported projects that enhance and improve the quality of life...
HHS Environmental Justice Community Innovator Challenge – Jan 30
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) are seeking community-led strategies and tools to address health disparities in communities...
Job Opportunities/AmeriCorps Opportunities
Enrichment Specialist (After-School, Part-Time), Center for Black Educator Development
The Center for Black Educator Development
The Center for Black Educator Development exists to (re)build a national Black Teacher Pipeline to achieve educational and racial justice by ensuring there is equity in the recruiting, training,...
Servant Leader Apprentice, Center for Black Educator Development
The Center for Black Educator Development
The Center for Black Educator Development exists to (re)build a national Black Teacher Pipeline to achieve educational and racial justice by ensuring there is equity in the recruiting, training,...
Civic Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in Climate Communication and Action – Jan 15
University of Pennsylvania
Are you passionate about using science to positively impact society? Are you motivated to find innovative ways to conduct science in partnership with communities? Do you want to join a network of...
Program Coordinator, Ones Up – Jan 15
Ones Up
Ones Up fights economic injustice through a passion-based career development program rooted in healing, wellness, and social justice. We believe in challenging all traditional systems to forge new...
Miscellaneous
2024 CUMU Huddles (Virtual Learning Communities)
Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
CUMU Huddles are informal, online learning communities for individuals from across the CUMU network to connect, learn, and collaborate around shared challenges and common goals. You can sign up for...
Webinar: AmeriCorps NCCC Summer of Service Program – Jan 18
AmeriCorps NCCC
Join our live event to learn more about the AmeriCorps NCCC Summer of Service program. The special, abbreviated summer session returns with projects focused on climate mitigation, affordable...
College Success Network
Virtual FACT Workshop: You Can Go: Foster/Kinship Care to College – Jan 11
School District of Philadelphia Office of Family and Community Engagement
Family Academy: Courses and Training (FACT) offers FREE in-person and virtual workshops for families and School District of Philadelphia community members. Our workshops support personal growth,...
Faculty Updates
Bonner Foundation Resources for Faculty Development
Bonner Foundation
The Bonner Foundation’s Wiki has great ideas for faculty development. Session Titles at a Glance: (NOTE: the link for each item below is available at the Wiki link above) #1: ...
Compact24 full agenda online now!
Campus Compact
COMPACT24, Now is the Moment: Higher Education Civic & Community Engagement as the Way Forward is Campus Compact’s 2024 National Conference on April 7-10, 2024 in Denver, CO. Now is the...
Article: Tackling the Teacher Shortage: Montclair Launches First NJ Apprenticeship Program Backed by Department of Labor
Montclair State University
Montclair State University has launched the first Teacher Certification Apprenticeship Program in the state of New Jersey backed by the Department of Labor, directly addressing the national teacher...
Article: Grant to train new teachers for high-need urban schools
The California State University
The College of Education at Cal State LA has been awarded a $7 million grant from the Department of Education (ED) to continue the success of the university’s Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency...
2024 CUMU Huddles (Virtual Learning Communities)
Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities
CUMU Huddles are informal, online learning communities for individuals from across the CUMU network to connect, learn, and collaborate around shared challenges and common goals. You can sign up for...
Speak out eCourse: How to Create Brave & Safer Spaces in an Anxious World
SpeakOut
This course focuses on facilitating difficult conversations and creating safe spaces for exploring power, privilege, and social identity differences in order to promote equity and social justice. How...
Call for Proposals: Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference – Feb 11
Harvard College Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship
The Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will be held on Thursday, April 18th and Friday, April 19th, 2024. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is available now and...
Civic and Community Engagement Benefits Topical Briefs
NC Campus Engagement
The Topical Briefs are a set of more developed pieces on the topical areas included in the Primer on the Benefits and Value of Higher Education Civic and Community Engagement. They are intended to...
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