In this unprecedented time of crisis, the Center for Urban Education is concerned about the safety, health, and well-being of our entire community. This website contains a compilation of resources for students, faculty, staff, and community to support our ongoing transition to remote teaching, learning, and working, and to encourage wellness and well-being.
As always, feel free to visit coronavirus.pitt.edu for the latest information on the University's plans and responses.
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Teaching Resources for Educators and Families
COVID-19 Resources
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Compilation list of resources for Allegheny County and Pittsburgh (3rd edition, updated March 24, 2020)
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Thorough list of resources in Pittsburgh and beyond
- UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Division of Community Health Resource Guide
- UPMC Department of Pediatrics - Family Strengths Survey
- Mutual aid mourning and healing request for support
- Beyond the Laptops - Helping families access tech resources
- Pitt area community resources to support and encourage wellness and well-being (Pitt Community Engagement Center)
- Pitt Pandemic Service Initiative - Community resources (ways to volunteer)
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Expert corroborated techniques for breathing (VIDEOS):
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CNN's Chris Cuomo talks about advice given to him by a pulmonary expert on how to fight Covid-19
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Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
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PA Public Utility Commission: Managing Utility Bills During the Coronavirus Crisis
Zoom Resources
- Using Pitt Zoom
- Security settings in Zoom to prevent “Zoombombing”
- Teaching with Zoom - Tips from Dr. OiYan Poon
Webinars and More
- Recording: Mutual Aid: Building Communities of Care During Crisis and Beyond with Mariame Kaba, Dean Spade, Klee Benally, and Kali Akuno; moderated by Tim Holland. (Thursday, May 21, 2020)
- Recording: Healing America’s Racial Divisions in the Age of Coronavirus - Montclair State University, Critical Urban Education. Featuring: Shawn Ginwright with Farima Pour-Khorshid and Christina Villarreal. Moderated by: Tanya Maloney & Bree Picower. (June 1, 2020)
- Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare
- Part 1: (March 25, 2020) Featuring Kimberlé Crenshaw, Eve Ensler, Laura Flanders, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Ai-jen Poo, Dorothy Roberts, and Alvin Starks
- Part 2 (April 1, 2020) Featuring Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dara Baldwin, Janine Jackson, Saru Jayaraman, Naomi Klein, and Mily Treviño-Sauceda
- Part 3 (April 8, 2020) Featuring Kimberle Crenshaw, Rosa Clemente, Danny HoSang, Rinku Sen, Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, Mari Matsuda, Dallas Goldtooth
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Part 4 (April 15, 2020) Featuring Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kehinde Andrews, Bree Newsome Bass, Paul Butler, Barbara Arnwine, Jonathan Metzl.
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Part 5 (April 22, 2020) Featuring Kimberlé Crenshaw, David Blight, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, William A. Darity Jr., Ibram X. Kendi, Kate Manne.
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Part 6 (April 29, 2020) "COVID in Confinement" featuring Josie Duffy Rice, Nina Kohn, Marc Lamont Hill, Rebecca Nagle, Ravi Ragbir, and Alyosxa Tudor.
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Part 8 - What’s the matter with Georgia? Virus, Voting, & Vigilantism in the Peach State
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Part 9 - Under the Blacklight: Narrating the Nightmare & (Re)Imagining the Possible. Dr Crenshaw with Kiese Laymon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Arundhati Roy.
Part 10 - Under the Blacklight: The Fire This Time. Dr Crenshaw with Alicia Garza, Robin D.G. Kelly, Maria Moore, Devon Carbado, Samuel Sinyangwe, A.G. Keith Ellison.
- Teach-ins on Coronavirus Capitalism (Haymarket Books)
- How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism (March 26, 2020). Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor, and Naomi Klein
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What Black Pittsburgh Needs to Know About COVID-19: Town Hall Tuesdays - The weekly Townhall Tuesday event occurs every Tuesday at 2 p.m. All are welcome to join.
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(April 28, 2020, 2pm). Cheryl Hall-Russell, Jamil Bey, Devon Taliaferro, Khamil Scantling, Jasiri X.
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Recording (April 7, 2020). Cheryl Hall-Russell, Jamil Bey, Tiffany L Gary-Webb, Jasiri X.
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Recording: Center for Race and Social Problems (University of Pittsburgh) #CRSPCast (Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 12 - 1pm eastern): Lessons from New Orleans: Race, Health and COVID-19 with Dean Thomas LaVeist (Tulane University).
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Recording: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition (April 17, 2020).
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Recording: The Pandemic is a Portal: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy. (Thursday April 23, 2020).
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Facebook Live, May 15, 2-3 p.m.: Reflections on how the “Pandemic is a Portal” (Price Institute) May 15, 2-3 p.m. with Ruha Benjamin, Monica McLemore, Nicole Fleetwood.
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Recording: Angela Davis and Nikki Giovanni conversation with GirlTrek co-founders Morgan and Vanessa on survival, wellness and self-care of Black women and girls.
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Recording: What a School Means: A Conversation with Eve L. Ewing (Haymarket Books; May 14, 2020). Join Eve L. Ewing in radically reimagining the meaning of public schools with an antiracist, liberatory vision of what education could be.
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Facebook Live, May 13 and 20, 1-2 p.m.: Black Center Directors Speak: Counternarratives in the COVID-19 Era -- A Virtual Townhall moderated by Fred Bonner II.
Teaching Resources for Educators and Families
- Resources for wellness, collective care, (and anti-racism) amidst concerns of COVID 19 by Dr. Kari Kokka
- U.S. Department of Education: COVID-19 ("Coronavirus") Information and Resources for Schools and School Personnel
- State of PA: Guidance and Resources for School Communities
- Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak
- COVID-19 and at-home resources: Resources to help parents and educators keep kids active and healthy while schools are closed or doing online learning
- Sex Ed for Social Change (homeschool-style sex ed resources)
- Teaching Through Coronavirus: What Educators Need Right Now from Teaching Tolerance
Articles
- Most Brown and Black Americans are Exposing Themselves to Coronavirus for a Paycheck by Vice (March 23, 2020)
- People with Intellectual Disabilities may be Denied Lifesaving Care Under These Plans as Coronavirus Spreads by ProPublica (March 27, 2020)
- Domestic Abuse: Where to Get Help (Bing search)
- Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid & How to Organize in the Age of Coronavirus by Democracy Now! (March 20, 2020)
- Pittsburgh sanitation workers refused to collect garbage to protest lack of protection amid coronavirus pandemic by Daily News (March 27, 2020)
- The best alternatives to Zoom for videoconferencing by The Verge (April 1, 2020)
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Racial Capitalism: A Fundamental Cause of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Inequities in the United States by Dr Whitney Pirtle; published in Health Education and Behavior (April 26, 2020).
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To Help Narrow Achievement Gaps During and After COVID-19, Families Must Promote Rigor and Relevance at Home by Dr. Donna Y. Ford in Diverse Education (April 26, 2020)
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The Pandemic is a Portal by Arundhati Roy in Financial Times (April 3, 2020)
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Coronavirus, Education Research, and Education: Relevant AERA Journal Articles
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A Trauma-Informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus (Teaching Tolerance, March 23, 2020).