Explore resources to support and enhance your community-engaged teaching and research.
This resource repository is available for anyone who is seeking further guidance and support toward enhancing their community-engaged teaching and research. Explore by resource tag using the filter tool to the right.
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Supporting Ourselves & Our Learners in Difficult Times
Current and ongoing events can impact everyone’s experience and it is important to consider all those involved–including ourselves–as whole people. How can we support our learners in difficult and complex times in ways that recognize our own personal needs, values, and pedagogical approaches?
- “Adam Ruins Everything – Redlining” VideoThis video is about the history of redlining and the implications it has had on…
- “Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen!” TedTalkThis TedTalk reflects upon the importance of being cognizant of a community’s goals rather than…
- “Who Wants to be a Volunteer?” VideoThis video depicts a savior complex through a parody of “who wants to be a…
- Anti-Oppressive Principles of Community EngagementCreated by: Rebecca Riccio, Giordana Mecagni, Becca Berkey, and the Social Impact Lab at Northeastern…
- Asset-Based Community Development 101This module was developed in 2019 by the former Center of Community Service at Northeastern….
- Asset-Based Community Development InfographicsThe two infographics below provide a quick overview of Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), its five…
- Asset-Based Community Development MappingThis activity aids in the understanding of community assets and the community, including its residents,…
- Asset-Based Community Development VideoThis video explains Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in very simple terms, providing a scenario of…
- Becoming Partners: Faculty come to appreciate undergraduates as teaching partners in a service-learning teaching assistant programGail S. Begley, Becca Berkey, Lisa Roe, Hilary E. Y. Schuldt This study examined the…
- Book chapter on assessing student learning in S-L coursesFor an example of how outcomes are defined and deliverables, graded, please see Chapter 5…
- Boston Public Health Commission: Community Engagement ToolkitEquitable Engagement Toolkit Source: Boston Public Health Commission Access here. This is a great tool…
- Build-a-City ActivityThis activity is designed to foster understanding behind why different communities are disproportionately affected in…
- Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with AlgorithmsKaterina Cizek, William Uricchio, et al. This publication examines alternatives to a singular authorial vision…
- Community Partner Onboarding ModuleThis training module introduces community partners to Community-Engaged Teaching and Research. It provides an overview…
- Community WalksThese Community Walks can be self-guided with the script or led by trained student leaders….
- Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative: Collaborative Toolkit WorkshopThe toolkit sets expectations in civic engagement projects, provides considerations of applied ethical research, prepares…
- Community-Engaged Teaching and Research One-pagerThe CETR one-pager provides an overview of Community-Engaged Teaching and Research, its partnerships, its goals,…
- Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of WorldsArturo Escobar Arturo Escobar, a Colombian-American anthropologist and the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at…
- Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming DataUsing this tool helps communities have accessible discussions about data within the public sphere. The…
- Equitable Community EngagementThis resource provides an overview of equitable community engagement; an ongoing, two-way process of building…
- Faculty Onboarding ModuleThis training module offers an introduction to faculty who are interested in integrating a service…
- Inequalities in BostonThis database is a fantastic resource that provides an overview of inequalities in Boston. Including,…
- Information for Fall 2024 Community PartnersInformation for Fall 2024 Community Partners Community-Engaged Teaching and Research supported nearly 50 service-learning courses…
- Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions – Are You a Helper? An Advocate? An Organizer? A Rebel?J. Lion, E. Hartman This tool reflects on your strengths and dispositions across different types…
- Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions – Structural ViolenceE. Hartman This tool explains the history of structural violence and demonstrates the importance of…
- Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions – With and From – Participatory MethodsThis module explores how research can contribute to building more just, inclusive, sustainable communities through…
- Learning Communities for Impactful Community Engagement: Teaching for Social JusticeThese materials were created to be facilitated as a part of semester-long Learning Communities. While…
- Macro, Micro, and Structural Racism in EducationRobin J. Diangelo, Özlem Sensoy This article explicates the interconnectivity of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and structural…
- NPR Redlining VideoThis video describes housing segregation and redlining in America and how this affects policing, access…
- Outcomes for Community-Engaged Learning at Northeastern UniversityThis form directs stakeholders through a short series of questions to identify learning outcomes specific…
- Part 1: Partnership Conversation GuideThis conversation guide and partnership agreement is for faculty and community partners to utilize when…
- Part 2: Discussion Topics and Guiding Questions for CETR PartnershipsThis conversation guide and discussion questions is for faculty and community partners to utilize when…
- Privilege Comic StripToby Morris This resource is a comic strip displaying the different privileges and how they…
- Runway to Broader ImpactsNortheastern faculty are invited to participate in a peer learning community focused on developing and…
- Savior BarbieThis tool is a parody Instagram account depicting Barbie with a saviorhood complex on a…
- SaviorismThese tools can help students understand what saviorism is and how to avoid it. The…
- Service-Learning & Community Engagement Learning Communities Fall 2023Service-Learning & Community Engagement Learning Communities Fall 2023 What are they? The fall 2023 S-L…
- Service-Learning Outcomes with Assessments and Sample Lesson PlansCreated for use in our Service-Learning Fellows Program, this tool shared learning outcomes for service-learning…
- Service-Learning Reflection ToolkitThis toolkit is being shared from another university, Gateway Technical College. Thank you to GTU…
- Story Maps: Where Our Communities ResideStory maps serve as dynamic online platforms, effectively showcasing our community partners in the surrounding…
- Systemic Racism VideoThis video describes how systemic racism historically through redlining has had implications on Black communities…
- Teaching & Leading StudentsTyler Nicholson This article provides advice on how to be a successful leader in the…
- Traditional vs. Critical Service-Learning: Engaging the Literature to Differentiate Two ModelsDr. Tania D. Mitchell This piece of work from Dr. Tania D. Mitchell advocates for…
- Two Cities ActivityThis activity draws light upon entering communities and focusing on needs versus focusing on the…
- Virtual EXPOThese materials include digital artifacts from collaboration between students, community partners, Service-Learning student leaders, and…
- Volunteering 101Training module that introduces students to basics of beginning a volunteer role with a community…
- Year in Review (2020-2021)The Year in Review provides an overview of Community-Engaged Teaching and Research for that particular…
Knowledge Hubs: explore resources by theme or topic
Utilize these hubs as a starting point. Each hub will open to a page with further resources and information around that theme or topic.
Course & Syllabus Design
For educators who are looking to design a service-learning course.
Leveraging Northeastern Students at your Organization
For community partners seeking information on working with Northeastern students.
Collaborating with Community Partners
For faculty and S-LTA seeking information on collaborating with a community partner.
Ethical Community Engagement
Building blocks for partnerships between community-based and institutional stakeholders.