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2020 Chester Semester
General
Week 1, Monday, September 7: Legacies & Systems
Week 2, Monday, September 14: Systems Thinking
Week 3, Monday, September 21: Housing with featured guest Ms. Twyla Simpkins
Week 4, Monday, September 28: Elite Changemaking
Week 5, Monday, October 5: Education with featured guest, Ms. Twyla Simpkins
Week 6, Monday, October 12: Artocate (Artist + Advocate) with featured guest, Devon Walls
Week 7, Monday, October 19: Integration of Knowledge & Practice with Guest Speaker, Stefan Roots
Week 8, Monday, October 26: Food Justice
Week 9, Monday, November 2: Chris Rogers
Week 10, Monday, November 9: Deep Adaptation
Week 11, Monday, November 16 (4-6PM EST): Council on this Time of Reckoning
Week 12: Monday, November 30: Teach-In
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Impact Gap Canvas
Final Assignment
From Paternalism to Patronage to Pillage
Pie in the Sky vs. Meat and Potatoes: The Case of Sun Ship's Yard, No. 4
Examination of Health and Public Health Service Delivery in Delaware County, Pennsylvania (2020)
Town Hall: Delaware County Public Health (August 20, 2020)
Can Global Policy Impact Local Environmental Justice?
Welcome to the “Post-Racial” Black City
The Impact Gap Canvas (video)
Optional: Student Guide to Mapping a System
Journal Assignment
How to Make a Ghetto
Journal Assignment
"No One Cares about this Community More than Us": The Role of Listening, Participation, and Trust in a Small Urban District
Whose Knowledge Is It?
Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All and the Paradox of Elite Philanthropy. 2019. The Daily Show. (video)
Kramer, M. 2018. Are the Elite Hijacking Social Change? Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Journal Assignment
Impact Gap Canvas
What's Race Got to Do with It? Examining Race and Neoliberalism in Current School Reform (pages 2-6 ONLY)
Introduction of The New Superintendent Dr. Carol Birks
As Chester Upland considers expanding charter schools, its new SI says she has "no preference' on management
Reflection Questions for Discussion
Journal Assignment
Light, P. 2011. Driving Social Change, Volume 17, Issue 4
Abello, O.P. 2018. Chester Artists Revitalizing Corridor on their Own Terms
WATCH: Virtual Tour of Chester with Devon Walls
ChesterMade: Through and Through
OPTIONAL: Get Chester Made On the Map: Chester City Council Presentation
Reflection Questions
Journal Assignment
Ask Chester
Chester Matters Blog
Reflection Questions
Journal Assignment
'Garden for Good' at Subaru Park to Feed Chester
Eat Well, Seek Justice
The #GlobalPOV Project: "Can Experts Solve Poverty?" With Khalid Kadir
How Wildlife Markets and Factory Farms Guarantee Frequent New Deadly Diseases
Questions for Consideration
Journal Assignment
Bio: Christopher Rogers
Bell, Kamau (2019) United Shades of America, CNN, season 4, episode 8, Toxic America
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRQL)
Joseph Kahne, Erica Hodgin & Elyse Eidman-Aadahl (2016) “Redesigning Civic Education for the Digital Age: Participatory Politics and the Pursuit of Democratic Engagement,” Theory & Research in Social Education, 44:1, 1-35
Laid to Waste: A Chester Neighborhood Fights for It's Future
Reflection Questions
Journal Assignment
CRCQL 10/29/2020 Zoom Meeting
The 2 sides to Chester’s environmental problems by Stefan Roots
Deep Adaptation and Climate Justice 2019: Climate Change and Inequalities
Optional: Deep Adaptation Q&A with Vanessa Andreotti hosted by Jem Bendell
Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy
Reflection Questions
Journal Assignment
PLEASE READ: A Message about the Council
In the spirit of Council: Thoughts toward creating a Council session on Zoom
Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change
Greed Does Not Have to Define Our Relationship to Land
We Don’t Have To Halt Climate Action To Fight Racism
The Uninhabitable Earth
The Great Climate Migration
Optional: Reader for this Time of Reckoning
Teach-In
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