Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)
About Seed
Would you like to join SEED?
How we see the world, decide which values to uphold, understand the unfamiliar, raise our kids – all these depend on our personal histories, inform who we are, and guide whom we want to be.  Parent SEED brings together CA parents and those caring for CA students who are interested in looking at issues in diversity, inclusion, and multi-culturalism (such as racism, class, poverty, gender identity, disability rights, etc.) , through their own eyes and those of fellow parents.  Through a year-long series of 7 meetings, enhanced by selected readings, videos, and speakers, we discuss topics important and sometimes uncomfortable, in a confidential and safe space at school. 

If you would like to join SEED, please email Joyce Simson P’08 (jrs@ix.netcom.com) or call her (614-554-9238) She will be in touch with you to introduce the SEED meeting format and will send materials to review before your first meeting.

Books, resources, and films discussed by SEED in previous years:

Positive Psychology Bibliography

White American Youth by Christian Picciolini

Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Turning oppression into opportunity for women.

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness.

The Submission, by Amy Waldman. A striking portrait of a fractured city striving to make itself whole.

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Evicted by Matthew Desmond. Poverty, profit in the American city

The Price of Privilege, by Madeline Levine. How parental pressure and material advantage 

are creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids.

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast. A graphic memoir of her parents’ final years.

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by B.D. Tatum

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by S. Alexie

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, by Anne Fadiman

Wonder by R.J. Palacio

Dreamland by Sam Quinones

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Tirado

Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Narwaz

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Crossing Borders documentary film

The Central Park Five documentary film

Quartet feature film

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)- Ohio

Community Refugee and Immigration Services (CRIS)

Kaleidoscope Youth Center

NEW MEMBERS

If you would like to join SEED, please email Joyce Simson P’08 (jrs@ix.netcom.com) or call her (614-554-9238) She will be in touch with you to introduce the SEED meeting format and will send materials to review before your first meeting.