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Links for Spring Session 2021

 Welcome first class of the Marcus Hall Civic Engagement Academy.  Please check here often for materials pertaining to each session.  Click on the download button above to get a course outline and other valuable information.  Thank you.

ABOUT MARCUS HALL CE ACADEMY

 The Marcus Hall CE Academy is a program to encourage the youth to participate in community services and support you in becoming an active citizen within your community through a series of sessions focused on advocacy, community organizing, and civic engagement. The bi-weekly program begins in February and runs through May. 

DESCRIPTION OF PILOT PROGRAM

 The Community Cohort is formatted to focus on community organizing and community outreach by providing participants the skills needed to advocate for the community. The program will give participants the tools and support to run an issue campaign or organize a social or political movement. 

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

  • The importance of Community Service
  • How the city, state, and federal government works.
  • How to become a better advocate through media training.
  • How goal setting and self-reflection can make you a better advocate.
  • How to engage with the community and elected officials?
  • About and understand Boston’s political, social, and economic landscapes? 

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Marcus Hall Civic Engagement Academy CURRICULUM

Curriculum

 February 8th Orientation

  Introduction to Program 

February 22nd Session - Historical Context 

  •      The purpose of the historical context session is to gain a better understanding of the history of Black, AAPI, Latinx and Indigenous communities in this country and the city. 

March 8th Session - Research! Research! Research!

  •  The purpose of the research session is to grasp the importance of research in relation to understanding your community and using this as a tool to achieve your goals. 

March 22nd Session - Money! Money! Money!

  • This session is focused on financial literacy and fundraising. Money has been a tool to activate action within communities because it is a resource to render aid. 

April 5th - Community during COVID (community organizing and advocacy)

  • The students will learn how to advocate and community organize from the testimonies of activists. They will have displays of how to contribute to the community through action and standing up for any issue they are passionate about. This session is based on turning your passion into purpose. 

April 19th Session - Press/Media/Communications

  • The participant will understand the effectiveness of both positive and negative of media. Understanding how to communicate and captivate an audience through speech and communication techniques are useful for organizing people.

May 3rd Session - Group Discussion 

  •  Socratic dialogue is a formal method by which a small group (5-15 people), guided by a facilitator, finds a precise answer to a universal question "What is happiness?", "What is integrity?", "Can conflict be fruitful?" We will be focusing on the universal question, can the government be reformed and does it have to be completely dismantled?

May 17th Session Graduation Presentation 

About Marcus Hall

 Marcus Hall, a member of BEJI, grew up in Dorchester and went to 

Charlestown High School. Marcus, dedicated to his community, with 

his friends started BOOTH, Brothers out of the Hood, to promote peaceful 

conflict resolution. On June 14, 2016, at the age of 31, Marcus Hall was shot

 and killed while taking his 4-year-old son, Yoda, for a haircut on Blue Hill Ave. 

The members of BEJI memorialize and continue Marcus’ work through the 

Marcus Hall Civic Engagement Academy.  

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