Teachers’ Democracy Project invites all concerned citizens to donate their used but still functional laptops, tablets, phones and chargers to support our students. Everyone in the country right now is ordering tablets and laptops. Even if Baltimore had the resources right now to buy them, they likely wouldn’t come for 8 weeks. Our children can’t wait.

Bring your donation this Saturday, April 11 to the parking lot at
10 E. North Ave. between 1 and 3pm. (Or arrange to get them to Bev Bickel (bickel@umbc.edu).

Check out our website at www.tdpbaltimore.org to understand our process for keeping the process safe. Also, find out how to get a device if you need one.

How can we as individual FACE COVID and cope with the uncertainty associated with the outbreak? Join us for an interactive, 1-hour webinar as we discuss the unique stressors of living through a pandemic and coping strategies outlines by Dr. Russ Harris.

Friday 4/10: 10:30 - 11:30am

Wednesday 4/15: 1:30 - 2:30pm

Tuesday 4/21: 2:30 - 3:30pm

Monday 4/27: 10:00 - 11:00am

Register: tinyurl.com/CCcoping

In her analysis with her coauthors, Prof. Lincove "examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas."

Read the abstract and article here. 

Are you looking for some motivation and guidance to process our unique and troubling times through writing? Author Suleika Jaouad recently initiated The Isolation Journals, which sends free writing prompts to participants each day April 1 to May 1. Jaouad modeled The Isolation Journals on a project she undertook while in isolation for leukemia treatment, committing to "a small creative act" each day for 100 days.

As she writes, “The goal of this is not to write the next King Lear or to churn out publishable masterpieces. It’s an opportunity to pause, take a few moments to exhale and reflect, and to expand our creativity as a community during this extremely challenging time.” Anyone can join and receive daily prompts by email like this one:

Write a travel journal entry from your home, could be your living room, could be your bed. Write as though you’ve just arrived in a new place (because, in many ways, you have) and what you’re observing about the place and how you feel in it. Write what you see, hear, and touch, as though it’s all brand new. What are you learning about yourself in this different land, with all its deprivations? If you’d like to turn this into a visual entry, draw a map complete with notes about this foreign land’s customs, rituals, and routines.

Read more and sign up at The Isolation Journals website.

Polis – The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities is offering online courses in Ancient Greek and Latin. If you have always wanted to learn the classic languages, but never had the time, now is the time! The courses will run from April 20 until June 30 and consist of 80 Academic hours of learning. Classes will take place three times per week with a teacher via Zoom.

Please see the attached flyer for more information.