Community Engaged Learning

The Bridge is co-hosted and produced by 2019-20 CCE graduate research assistants Brianna Davis Johnson and Lakeya Omogun under the direction of Dr. Suchitra Gururaj and features stories and best practices from UT instructors who connect on-campus learning and research with real-world community projects.

This series of podcast interviews features community partners, instructors, and students who have been involved in community-engaged learning in different courses and in different ways.

The Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative is a network of educational institutions and community organizations. The Collaborative advances ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

CFICE is an action research project that aims to strengthen Canadian non-profits, universities and colleges, and funding agencies to build more successful, innovative, resilient and prosperous communities.

The Social Impact Lab (SIL) Toolkit is a modular tool for educators to help students achieve collaborative and systemic change. The SIL Toolkit consists of themes, learning outcomes, and lessons, which guide students through values exploration, working in diverse groups, systems analysis, and project planning.

"Developed to encourage faculty, staff, and students to embed principles of community engagement into their community-engaged teaching and extracurricular partnerships."

Includes case studies, project scoping questions, reflection activities, and more.

"This research guide highlights resources for those interested in the pedagogy of community engaged learning. Included are sample syllabi, reflection resources, possible outlets for publishing on the topic and more."

"Covers an explanation of what Community Engaged Learning is (for the UU) and good practices, 5 steps to integrate ICEL in your teaching, how to develop and maintain relationships with societal partners and how to stimulate students to reflect. The three latest tools include online CEL, CEL learning goals, and CEL assessment and evaluation."