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.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 8am: Parent SEED Meeting -Huntington Room. If you are interested, please contact the Parent SEED leader, Joyce Simson P’08 at jrs@ix.netcom.com.
Thursday, September 6 – Fireside Room
Positive Psychology, Presented by Michelle Schroeder and Suzanne Ritter
Monday, October 8 – White American Youth; Memoir of the Skinhead movement
Thursday, November 1 – Fireside Room
Tuesday, January 22 – Huntington Room; Discussion of “Small Great Things“
Tuesday, February 12 – Huntington Room; Discussion of “Evicted“
Monday, April 8 – Huntington Room
Monday, May 6 – Huntington Room
Below is a sampling of books, articles, videos, and speaker agencies read, viewed, listened to, and discussed by SEED parents over the past 10 years at CA:
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