Resources from Past Open Classroom Programs

Some Open Classroom instructors make copies of their presentations available or share supplemental resources with the audience. We use this page to post that information.

OCTOBER 2021

Improving Child and Adolescent Mental Health - slides from Leyla Ismayilova's presentation can be accessed here.
Teenage Brain - select slides from Lorien Carter's presentation are here. Recommended resources are here.

September 2021

Disability-Inclusive Workplaces - slides from Susanne Bruyere's presentation are available here.
School-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies - slides from Ryan Lindsay's talk are available here.

AUGUST 2021

Science and Strategies to Support Tweens and Teens in Pandemic Recovery and a Rapidly Changing World - slides from Stephanie Krauss' talk are available here.
Fear of Needles and the Unknown: Compassionately Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy- Slides from Beth Brawley's presentation can be found here.

July 2021

Mindfulness for the School Year - Slides from Meg Krejci's presentation can be found here.
Digital Dating Abuse - Slides from Kaleigh Cornelison's presentation can be found here.
Authentic Advocacy - Slides from Ian Forber-Pratt's presentation can be found here.

February 2021

Understanding the Pandemic as a Shared Traumatic Experience - Dr. Hasmik Chakaryan developed this Open Classroom lecture, with slides available here.
Pro-Trump Era Resistence: Hope & Mobilizing Among Black Famlies- Brown School Associate Professor Sheretta Butler Barnes delivered this presentation that reviewed findings from her study of factors that influenced self-esteem and resiliency among African American teens. Her slide deck is available here.

January 2021

Managing in the Multi-Generational Workplace - Brown School Senior Lecturer Janelle Barker Gibson offered this Open Classroom about generational difference in the workplace. Her slides are available here.

December 2020

Adaptive Coping & Stress Management - In partnership with Open Classroom, Dr. Megan Keyes has assembled a three-part series for health and public health workers. The first webinar is available here. Dr. Keyes' slides and resources are also available. Slides and resources from the second webinar are also available.
Supporting LGBT Older Adults - Brown School Alumna Sherrill Wayland delivered this Open Classroom presentation on supporting older LGBT adults during the pandemic. Her slides are available here.

November 2020

Sleep Disruption - Dr. Megan Keyes created a presentation specific to disrupted sleep and the pandemic, offering these resources.

October 2020

Virtual Facilitation - Steven Harowitz provided this Open Classroom with 5 Tips for Virtual Facilitation. His slides are available here.
Immigration Policy - Washington University alumnus Javad Khazaeli of Khazaeli Wyrsch LLC delivered this Open Classroom talk on the racism inherent in current US immigration policy. His slide deck is available here.
Inclusive Democracy - Dr. Gena McClendon delivered an Open Classroom about inclusive democracy and voter suppression. Her slide deck is available here.

JuLY 2020

Caring for Yourself & Your Team in the Era of Uncertainty - Brown School Alumna Kaleigh Cornelison provided this Open Classroom talk on self-care and care of others while we telecommute and manage new stressors. Her slides are available here. Additional resources referenced can be found here.
Increasing Engagement with Clients with PTSD - Drs. Megan Keyes and Julie Mastnak provided an Open Classroom lecture regarding evidence-based therapies, PTSD, and the pandemic. Their slides are available here.
Introversion, Extroversion, and the Pandemic - Brown School Professional Development presenter Chris Frey offered this Open Classroom talk on strategies to manage the impact of social distancing on introverts and extroverts. His slide deck - including resources at the end - is available here.
Pandemic Stress - Megan Keyes developed this Open Classroom program for us. Her slides are available here. She assembled these resources and shares these references.
Messaging Your Issue - Open Classroom teamed up with the Grand Challenges for Social Work to produce this webinar on Messaging Your Issue for Policy Audiences. The slide deck is available here.
Health Policy & Economics - The Brown School's Dr. Timothy McBride provides this Open Classroom lecture on the health policy and economic challenges of the pandemic. His slide deck is available here.
How Small Businesses Support a Community and How to Protect Them - Brown School Professor of the Practice Heather Cameron provided this Open Classroom talk. Her slides are available here.

June 2020

Implementation Science - Drs. Ana Bauman and Rebecca Lengnick-Hall of the Brown School provided this Open Classroom discussion entitled "Your Intervention is Ready...Now What?" Their slides, including additional recommended readings, are available here.
Tracking the Social & Economic Impact of COVID-19 - The Brown School's Professor Matthew Kreuter delivered this Open Classroom lecture discussing the work of the Health Communication and Research Laboratory to track impacts of the pandemic on people's needs for services like food and housing. Slides from the presentation are available for your reference here. The HCRL also has this website where you can learn more about their work.
Virtual Service Delivery - Brown School alumnus Carl Josehart provided this Open Classroom talk about Jewish Family Service of Houston's response to the pandemic - how they shifted their service delivery, while staying connected to key stakeholder's. The presentation slides are available here.

May 2020

Nutrition Security During the Pandemic - Brown School Associate Dean for Public Health Lora Iannotti provided this presentation for Open Classroom. Her slides are available here.
Food & Chemical Safety During the Pandemic - Dr. Angela Hobson provided this Open Classroom lecture. Her slides are available here.
Finding & Using Big Data - Professor Brett Drake provided this Open Classroom presentation. His slide deck is available here.
Housing Advocacy - The Brown School's Molly Metzger teamed up with Jacki Langum from ArchCity Defenders to provide this Open Classroom presentation on Local Housing Advocacy and the Pandemic. The slides are available here and the recommended readings are here. The talk referenced this FEMA toolkit.
Modeling and the Pandemic - Brown School Professor Doug Luke offered this Open Classroom talk sharing how some of the same modeling technology behind video games and animation is useful to understanding a pandemic. Find his slide deck here.
2020 Census - Open Classroom teamed up with the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies to sponsor this talk by Brown School alum Lindsey Manshack on the implications of the 2020 Census for Native American communities. Lindsey's slides are available here.
Public Mental Health - The Brown School's Dr. Alexis Duncan provided this Open Classroom presentation to give an overview of the field of public mental health and its relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her slides are available here.
Race & Equity - The Brown School's Dr. Darrell Hudson offered this Open Classroom presentation on privileging equity after the pandemic. His slides are available here. Additional resources were suggested by Theresa Kuou of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement.

April 2020

Engaging Families - From the Brown School's Open Classroom series, Dean Mary McKay delivered this webinar entitled "I Went for an Intake and Never Went Back." Her slide deck is available here. She recommends these additional webinars to people interested in learning more about this topic.
Epidemiology 101 - From the Brown School's Open Classroom series, Dr. Kim Johnson shares an overview of basic epidemiology concepts and relates them to the current pandemic. Her slide deck is available here.
Major Gift Solicitation - Professor of Practice Barry Rosenberg gave this talk. His slides are available here.
Reintegration of Children in Families - Ian A. Forber-Pratt created this Open Classroom presentation to share a practice model around reunification and reintegration of children to families. His slides are available here.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards (CLAS) in Health Care - Dr. Vetta Sanders Thompson hosted an Open Classroom session regarding CLAS in health care, along with a conversation regarding health equity. Her talk can be found here. Her slides are available here. Additional resources she recommends are found here and here.

March 2020

Age & The Coronavirus - As part of the Brown School's Open Classroom series, Nancy Morrow-Howell presented a webinar on age and the Coronavirus. Here is a recording of her talk. Please see her presentation slides and a list of resources that were developed in response to the talk.