Nat'l SEED Project

SEED will be offering three virtual New Leaders Weeks this summer geared towards preparing participants to lead SEED seminars in their own schools, workplaces, and communities: nationalseedproject.org/item…

SEED Leader Valery Glod-Gransewicz writes in @MassReview of her experience with Lupus and how COVID-19 and responses to it are affecting the health and well-being of those with the disease, who are impacted in intersecting ways: massreview.org/node/8741

SEED Staff Member @xinest writes, "After seeing multiple requests from Asian folks and other folks of color to interrupt the fear, ignorance, and racism in the time of COVID-19, I feel called to reach out to my White community and ask us to do more." nationalseedproject.org/item…

SEED is monitoring the current COVID-19 threat closely. At this time, we intend to conduct our 2020 SEED New Leaders Weeks on the dates currently listed. Learn more: nationalseedproject.org/item…

SEED has a new initiative toward justice: prioritizing the participation of public school educators and their school communities. We are therefore offering every public school applicant who is accepted to our New Leaders Week a $1200 grant. nationalseedproject.org/item…

We Are Teachers explains why family-tree assignments in classrooms "can feel unsettling and exclusionary." A more inclusive exercise, it suggests, is “Circles of Caring Community” from Welcoming Schools--adapted from a lesson plan developed by SEED Co-director Emmy Howe.

SEED Co-directors Emmy Howe and Gail Cruise-Roberson will be facilitating this interactive workshop. Please join us!

A piece for #MLKDay, by SEED Co-director Gail Cruise-Roberson, on "How Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Informs SEED Work": nationalseedproject.org/item…

“The SEED experience is having a deep and profound [impact] on our staff members. They say things like ‘I see things differently now’ [and] ‘I have the vocabulary so I can talk about things I never could before.’” -Jill Geocaris, @maine_207,in @JT_Scanner. journal-topics.com/articles/…

The application for the 2020 SEED New Leaders Weeks and the 2020-21 SEED Project year is now available at the SEED website! nationalseedproject.org/item… #equity #diversity #education

ReSEED 10 will be April 24-26, 2020 in Seattle, Washington -- a chance for experienced SEED leaders to revisit, renew, recharge, and recommit to working for a more just world. Learn more and apply now: nationalseedproject.org/item…

A White public school teacher shares w/ @EdWeekTeacher how he became aware of his privilege, how this impacted his students, and how he is using self-reflection, conversation, and curriculum to create a better learning environment for all his students: edweek.org/tm/articles/2019/…

SEED "will allow more individuals to examine their own experiences and the existing structures of the institution through a critical lens, which may lead to innovative changes that create a more inclusive campus," says Salina Renninger of @UofStThomasMN nationalseedproject.org/item…

We are delighted to introduce an e-newsletter for SEED leaders, SEED seminar participants, administrators supporting SEED seminars, and all interested colleagues and friends! nationalseedproject.org/item…

SEED Co-director Jondou Chase Chen, senior lecturer in the Education, Equity and Society program of @UWCollegeOfEd, spoke recently at one of the College's faculty EduTalks and shared why storytelling is at the heart of SEED--and of educational justice. nationalseedproject.org/item…

SEED's practice of Serial Testimony "is more powerful than I ever imagined," writes Rachel Luce-Hitt in a guest piece co-authored with Jeanine Viau, both of @UCF. Republished w/permission from UCF's Faculty Focus. nationalseedproject.org/item…