Projects and Partners

Graciously funded by the Snyder Foundation, the Center for Social Transformation and Leadership is working with the Office of Catholic Schools from the Archdiocese of Seattle to CS focus on how best to co-create opportunities for schoolteachers to strengthen Catholic mission and identity across the system focused on grade level religion standards. This project is developing year-long formation experiences for school leaders and teachers available to OCS schools in a virtual format. 

he Center for Social Transformation and Leadership is excited to partner with the National Math Foundation on the Mighty Multiplication Project.  The Mighty Multiplication Project is a research-focused, university partnership program in which we collaborate with national teacher ed programs to supply teacher alumni classrooms with kinesthetic learning materials to help students master their multiplication skills. These materials, which get students up out of their seats and physically active, are used to supplement student learning throughout the school’s multiplication units. Teachers gather student achievement data using pre and post assessments.

The Center for Social Transformation and Leadership and Seattle University’s Kinesiology Department in the College of Arts and Sciences is excited to partner with the National Math Foundation on the Moving and Learning Project The Moving & Learning Classrooms Project is a nationwide initiative to provide powerhouse districts across the country with COVID-safe, kinesthetic learning materials to support classroom learning in fundamental math and literacy concepts. 

GIS ( professionals are bound by the GIS Code of Ethics to consider the impact of their work on society. For hundreds of years mapping has sometimes been a tool for creating and preserving inequity. During the past 25 years there have been some uses of GIS for issues related to equity or social justice.  In support of the current ESJ PEARi is doing to engage BIPOC communities, the  Center for Social Transformation and Leadership will be collaborating on educational opportunities to create a data/mapping/application support framework both for their own work and to support the work on non-GIS professionals. Non-GIS professionals will become the largest community doing actual ESJ work with GIS. These non-GIS professionals include those who work for agencies, non-profits, and NGO’s with an ESJ mission, as well as government policy professionals who want to use GIS to support an ESJ lens for developing upstream agency policies.

SEED offers educational activities, technology commercialization, business plan development, shared access to facilities and equipment, linkages and networking, financial services, mentorship to both start-ups and SMEs.  The SEED Program is a consortium led by the Community Foundation of Snohomish County (CFSC) and Seattle University. SEED is taking the challenge of transforming community members from subsistence to industrialists in agribusiness by creating an applied research center housed in the Center for Social Transformation and Leadership. Grounded in a participatory approach, SEED will create an agricultural supply chain incubator to provide program support for entrepreneurial and small business growth, focusing on traditionally marginalized populations within a four-county region neighboring Seattle University. SEED supports participants at various personal and professional development stages and broadens their awareness of potential social enterprise and educational career opportunities, both in agricultural industry and academia. related to the unique access problems and food security needs by supporting their recruiting into the employer and workforce development programming (e.g., migrant/seasonal agricultural workers, residents of public housing, homeless persons, low-income household members, youth with disabilities, Black and Brown 4H participants). The goal is to eradicate poverty, increase household income ultimately address food and nutrition security in the state of Washington.