National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity)Project Co-Directors: Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., Emily Style, M.A., Brenda Flyswithhawks, Ph.D.
"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed... and I am prepared to expect wonders."
In year-long, monthly seminars, the SEED Project enables adults to examine contemporary scholarship as well as "the textbooks of our lives" in order to inform community conversation about schooling and culture. Educators connected to the SEED network testify that as a result of their SEED affiliation, they listen to all voices, including their own, with widened attention. SEED seminar participants handle with more confidence and competence the challenges and joys of the many kinds of diversity found in their own lives and in the lives of others. SEED helps to create multiculturally equitable and gender balanced curriculum that makes room for reflecting upon the lives of all girls and boys (and women and men) with a sense of integrity and coherence. Project directors are Peggy McIntosh, Associate Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, who has taught in six schools and colleges; Emily Style, an English teacher who has taught in private schools, urban and suburban New Jersey public schools, and has done adjunct teaching for Cornell and NYU; and Brenda Flyswithhawks, instructor in Psychology at Santa Rosa Junior College in California. They are joined each summer at the New Leaders' Workshop by experienced SEED leaders from various disciplines and diverse ethnic backgrounds who help to staff the week-long training. The project provides various types of technical assistance throughout the year for SEED seminars, which have now been led by coordinators in over 30 U.S. states, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver, and Dar Es Salaam. Once begun, many SEED seminars continue meeting for years. The 2008 New Leaders' Workshop of the National SEED Project will be held July 10-17 in San Anselmo, CA, and will enroll approximately 40 new SEED leaders, alone or in teams of two. Schools pay a $3,500 participation fee per new leader toward the cost of the summer training and year-long technical support. They also provide a $1,000 book budget for the school-based, voluntary seminar. SEED Seminars are led chiefly by teachers in K-12 classrooms. In some cases, parents, college teachers, and administrators have also led seminars. The 2008 Application deadline is April 15, 2008. The notification date is May 15, 2008. Key questions for all participants in SEED seminars are:
SEED training and application forms. —> For more information, contact co-directors:
Peggy McIntosh or
Emily Style or
Brenda Flyswithhawks
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The National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum, a staff-development equity project for educators, is in its twenty-second year of establishing teacher-led faculty development seminars in public and private schools throughout the U.S. and in English-speaking international schools. A week-long SEED summer New Leaders' Workshop prepares school teachers to hold year-long reading groups with other teachers to discuss making school climates and curricula more gender-fair and multiculturally equitable. A Minnesota SEED anthology, published in October 1998 and available from the SEED office at Wellesley,
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, offers a buoyant glimpse of teachers' experiences in the SEED Project and the project's effect on their classroom teaching.
