Week 7, Day 1
Happy Monday!! We hope you had a great weekend and are ready for the seventh week!
We will have our normal check-in today at 10 am PT | 12 pm CT | 1 pm ET.
We will also have our expert guest speaker talk with Dr. Osman Ahmed at 12 pm PT | 2 pm CT | 3 pm ET. Dr. Ahmed’s bio can be found on our website here.
Start-of-day Procedure
Check Slack for new messages
Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal
Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content
Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources
Check in with your PM on Slack
Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack
There are 3 (new) tasks to do today:
Continue to work on your projects.
If you need any help with navigating Squarespace, Canva, further questions about feedback on drafts, etc, please reach out to the Admin team! We are here to help you!
Write a thank you note for Dr. Ahmed. His thank you letter can be found here.
Check on Newsletter Synopsis revisions
Curriculum for Today
We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go.
Unit 2: Race, Sex, and Social Factors (~35 min)
Read Race and Concussion: An Emerging Relationship. (20 min)
Read the specified synopses from these CA webpages (15 min)
What they didn't tell novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie after her concussion - read “Culture”
Black women’s experience with brain injury and IPV/DV - read “Women’s Health”
Unit 3: Stanford Writing Course
We will no longer be assigning modules from this course. However, feel free to keep continuing if you would like!