PikePOD

At the start of the 2009-2010 school year, SEED was reorganized into POD (People in Open Dialogue). This faculty/staff group continues the work begun by SEED. The group meets monthly and reads books that focus on a wide variety of diversity issues.

Please visit the PikePOD blog to learn more about the readings and to join in the conversation.

SEED

This project on inclusive curriculum was created more than two decades ago at Wellesley College. After attending  its training program in 2005, a Pike teacher established a SEED group for Pike faculty and staff. In its first year, the Pike group numbered ten members. That number doubled the next year. For a comprehensive explanation of the national SEED program by its founders, Emily Styles and Peggy McIntosh, visit this link to the Wellesley site.

SEED Thoughts

This newsletter, published by Pike's SEED group, contains movie and book recommendations as well as information on upcoming opportunities to look at issues of diversity in our world.

January 2008
April 2008

 

The 2007-2008 Syllabus

American-Born Chinese
by Gene Luen Yang

The Price of Privilege
by Madeline Levine

Rules
by Cynthia Lord

Visit from Kenyan short story author, Elly Oloo Nyamwaya

Moloka'i
by Alan Brenner

Stealing Buddha's Dinner
by Bich Minh Nguyen

 

The 2006-2007 Syllabus

Addison Gallery
Wendy Ewald Exhibit

Monsoon Summer
by Mitali Perkins

The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls

Breaking Through
by Francisco Jiménez

The Heaven Shop
by Deborah Ellis

Between Mom and Me
by Julie Ann Peters


In 2005-2006, the SEED group at Pike addressed the following topics through readings and viewings:

Finding Our Own Voices

Globalization
Readings: stories by S. Cisneros, J. Kincaid

Class Oppression
Video: Life & Debt

Racism
Reading: The Breadgivers  (Anzia Yezierska)

Racism (con’t)
Reading: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  (Mildred T. Taylor)

Religious Identity
Video: The Color of Fear

Gender Identity
Reading: Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths  (Bruce Feiler)

Multicultural Voices
Reading: My Heartbeat  (Garret Freymann-Weyr)