Community Group Project
The CLP community group project should:
Process:
Select a project and create a working group of five members.
Set up a google drive group for members to contribute/edit plan and project presentation.
Spend up to 10 hours to plan, research, implement action component, and share in a class presentation.
Discuss how group will be organized and project be managed.
Schedule:
Week 5
Project group organization and planning.
Week 6
Project Plan due. Email plan to Josephine for posting on CLP website. [email protected]
Weeks 10 & 11
Project Presentations. Using a powerpoint or prezi, prepare a 15-minutes sharing of the project to heighten awareness for class, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A/dialog.
Email presentation to Josephine for posting on CLP website. Bring Powerpoint/Prezi on USB and also email to self for backup. Turn in hard copy.
Project Plan Addressing Four Components:
I Issue identification, framing, and explanation
* Identify a significant public policy or civic issue related to Asian Americans and Latino Americans that group will explore and heighten awareness. Frame the issue within a historical context and explain why it is significant.
* Develop a working title to identify groups, issue, and perspective/angle. (eg. Asian American and Latino Seniors: Providing Language and Culturally-Relevant Health Care)
II Community research focus and key questions:
· Identify the community research focus the project will seek understanding and awareness.
· Brainstorm and refine a set of 4-6 thoughtful and carefully-crafted questions.
· Research the issue as appropriate through policy research, online platforms, published sources, public meetings, news articles, etc.
· Your group may want to identify knowledgeable individuals to interview and video-record to gain first-hand insights, experience, or information.
III Select and complete an action component such as:
· Engage a public decision maker to provide information and lobby on an issue.
· Use an online space to conduct a campaign or dialog to raise awareness.
· Make a thoughtful statement to be delivered during “Public Comments” of a government meeting.
· Write a letter to the editor of San Jose Mercury News.
· Make a public service announcement on a radio or TV station.
· Other actions as feasible.
IV Group Organization and Project Management
· Discuss how group will be organized, decisions made, and project managed.
· Online communication and collaboration.
· Timeline for group project.
- Address a significant current public policy or civic issue to increase awareness.
- Relate to both Asian American and Latino community as much as possible.
- Be researchable and completed in about four weeks.
- Include organizing a feasible action component that can be undertaken before the end of the class.
- Share presentation in class with Powerpoint/Prezi.
Process:
Select a project and create a working group of five members.
Set up a google drive group for members to contribute/edit plan and project presentation.
Spend up to 10 hours to plan, research, implement action component, and share in a class presentation.
Discuss how group will be organized and project be managed.
Schedule:
Week 5
Project group organization and planning.
Week 6
Project Plan due. Email plan to Josephine for posting on CLP website. [email protected]
Weeks 10 & 11
Project Presentations. Using a powerpoint or prezi, prepare a 15-minutes sharing of the project to heighten awareness for class, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A/dialog.
Email presentation to Josephine for posting on CLP website. Bring Powerpoint/Prezi on USB and also email to self for backup. Turn in hard copy.
Project Plan Addressing Four Components:
I Issue identification, framing, and explanation
* Identify a significant public policy or civic issue related to Asian Americans and Latino Americans that group will explore and heighten awareness. Frame the issue within a historical context and explain why it is significant.
* Develop a working title to identify groups, issue, and perspective/angle. (eg. Asian American and Latino Seniors: Providing Language and Culturally-Relevant Health Care)
II Community research focus and key questions:
· Identify the community research focus the project will seek understanding and awareness.
· Brainstorm and refine a set of 4-6 thoughtful and carefully-crafted questions.
· Research the issue as appropriate through policy research, online platforms, published sources, public meetings, news articles, etc.
· Your group may want to identify knowledgeable individuals to interview and video-record to gain first-hand insights, experience, or information.
III Select and complete an action component such as:
· Engage a public decision maker to provide information and lobby on an issue.
· Use an online space to conduct a campaign or dialog to raise awareness.
· Make a thoughtful statement to be delivered during “Public Comments” of a government meeting.
· Write a letter to the editor of San Jose Mercury News.
· Make a public service announcement on a radio or TV station.
· Other actions as feasible.
IV Group Organization and Project Management
· Discuss how group will be organized, decisions made, and project managed.
· Online communication and collaboration.
· Timeline for group project.
Topics
1. Human Trafficking in Santa Clara County
How common is it?
Where is it taking place?
What actions can we do to stop it or prevent it?
What local policies or laws are in place, or can be advocated for?
How common is it?
Where is it taking place?
What actions can we do to stop it or prevent it?
What local policies or laws are in place, or can be advocated for?
2. Supporting undocumented residents
How can we assist these communities?
What local policies or laws are in place, or can be advocated for?
Who are community leaders we can collaborate with to serve these communities?
How can we assist these communities?
What local policies or laws are in place, or can be advocated for?
Who are community leaders we can collaborate with to serve these communities?
3. Healthy, Affordable, and Accessible Food for East San Jose
Lower income neighborhoods often have limited access to healthy foods, and furthermore, these foods tend to be much more expensive
What have been the efforts to make healthy food more accessible and affordable in East San Jose?
Lower income neighborhoods often have limited access to healthy foods, and furthermore, these foods tend to be much more expensive
What have been the efforts to make healthy food more accessible and affordable in East San Jose?
4. Culturally Inclusive Curriculum in Schools
Opportunities for more Latino American and Asian American history and culture in K-12 schools?
Increase the opportunities to learn Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Mandarin, and other threshold languages in high schools?
Opportunities for more Latino American and Asian American history and culture in K-12 schools?
Increase the opportunities to learn Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Mandarin, and other threshold languages in high schools?
5. Thinking about Progressive Politics in Silicon Valley
What does a progressive Asian American and Latino American politics look like? And then we can refine using SV as a case study. In terms of fleshing out the question, I think there are two important themes that can be expressed in the following way (other ways too, this is just me brainstorming) :
1) At the heart of the term progressive is "progress". So how do we measure progress within and across our communities? What tensions are revealed and how should we approach them?
2) Can there be a progressive politics today that does not center interracial and inter-ethnic solidarity? What does solidarity mean in principle and, most importantly, in practice? How do we handle those areas where our interests diverge as well as where they converge? What kinds of structures can we build that are durable, flexible, and dynamic?
What does a progressive Asian American and Latino American politics look like? And then we can refine using SV as a case study. In terms of fleshing out the question, I think there are two important themes that can be expressed in the following way (other ways too, this is just me brainstorming) :
1) At the heart of the term progressive is "progress". So how do we measure progress within and across our communities? What tensions are revealed and how should we approach them?
2) Can there be a progressive politics today that does not center interracial and inter-ethnic solidarity? What does solidarity mean in principle and, most importantly, in practice? How do we handle those areas where our interests diverge as well as where they converge? What kinds of structures can we build that are durable, flexible, and dynamic?
