Dear Parents:
I am pleased to let you know about a new enrichment opportunity for parents here in the Cary Academy community: SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity).
The National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum is a peer-led professional development program that promotes change through self-reflection and interpersonal dialogue and builds capacity for more equitable curriculum, campuses, and communities. It engages parents, teachers, and community leaders from all types of schools, grade levels, and geographical locations.
SEED seminars are facilitated by teachers who have been trained as SEED leaders. SEED leaders do not lecture. Instead, they lead peers in experiential, interactive activities and conversations often stimulated by films and readings. The monthly seminars deepen participants’ understanding of themselves and expand their knowledge of the world. In each seminar, SEED participants use their own experiences and those of their children to make themselves more effective as partners in their children’s education, and more resilient as parents interested in making their communities and schools more inclusive. SEED values parents’ voices so they can, in turn, better value the voices of their children and their friends and classmates.
Jason Franklin and Kara Caccuitto will be facilitating the seminars for interested parents throughout the school year on the following dates:
- Thursday 9/24
- Thursday 10/15
- Tuesday 10/27
- Thursday 11/19
- Thursday 12/3
- Thursday 1/7
- Thursday 2/4
- Thursday 3/17
- Thursday 4/28
- Thursday 5/12
The seminars will run from 4:30-7:30.
If you are interested, please contact Kara Caccuitto or Jason Franklin by August 31st, as space is limited.
I hope you will consider joining SEED as part of your commitment to community engagement and our commitment to diversity and inclusion here at Cary Academy.
Watch the CA SEED Project Video
Sincerely,
Jason Franklin
Director of Diversity and Inclusion