PROGRAMMING UPDATES-- 2/8/2022
PRE-RECORDED/NO LIVESTREAM
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S UNIFYING LEADERSHIP AND RELEVANCE FOR TODAY
Wednesday, February 9
JES Website and YouTube
Featuring Brock Institute for Mega Issues director, Rev. Charles Brock, M.Litt.
Drawing from his extensive research on U.S. presidents, Rev. Charles Brock will focus on President Abraham Lincoln's ability to unify Americans in a time of crisis and turmoil. Brock argues that we need another Lincoln today – badly. We need to reconcile our acute political differences. Noting that churches often cooperate now compared to when they certainly didn't before 1900, he asks if America could do the same in politics? For the future of the United States, he hopes we can.
POSTPONED/REGISTRATION STILL OPEN:
GREAT BOOKS DISCUSSION COURSE: "COUNTERPARTS"
NEW PROGRAM:
VALENTINE'S DAY: A VERY SHORT HISTORY
Although Valentine's Day is not an official holiday anywhere, it is celebrated in more countries around the world than any other holiday. Where did this rose-hued holiday custom of gift-giving, card sharing, chocolate consuming courtship, and romance originate?
Did you know that every February over 36 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate are sold, that the average person spends $164.76 for the day, that approximately one billion cards are exchanged around the world, that $2 billion-plus will be spent on flowers, and that each year approximately 18 percent of women send themselves flowers?
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ERIE'S DIVERSITY IS THE PATH TO PROSPERITY: TACKLING THE TEACHER-TO-STUDENT MISMATCH
Friday, February 18
12 - 1 p.m.
Facebook Livestream Event
Featuring: Court Gould, Tanya Garcia, Sharif El-Mekki, Brian Polito, Ken Nickson
This virtual panel discussion is a follow-up to a JES report by Court Gould. Panelists Tanya Garcia, Deputy Secretary for the Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education; Sharif El-Mekki, CEO of the Center for Black Educator Development; Ken Nickson, Erie's Public Schools Coordinator of Educational Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and Brian Polito, Superintendent, Erie's Public Schools will inform the community of the teacher-to-student mismatch, reasons the mismatch shortchanges students and Erie as a whole, what is being done about it, and introduction of additional initiatives that are proving productive elsewhere.
The program is a follow-on to the JES report (published 9/24/21) entitled, "Erie's Diversity is the Path to Prosperity: Tackling the Teacher-To-Student Mismatch". Click here to read the full report.
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THE ROLE OF THE HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM DURING COVI-19
Thursday, March 31
7 - 8:30 p.m.
Jefferson Educational Society
Featuring Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Leonard Calabrese, D.O.
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on our society and its impact has not been equally distributed across the population. The most vulnerable to experience severe disease and death are those of advancing age and those with one of many diseases of the modern world driven by low-grade inflammation. These common disorders include obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and fatty liver, cardiovascular and renal disease among others that are growing rapidly in modern life and already collectively account for nearly 60 percent of all deaths prior to COVID-19. Given that our immune health is directly tied to our behaviors and environmental exposures, advances in the understanding of how to modify our behaviors and exposures (what we eat, how we sleep and exercise, and how we handle our stress) as well as understanding the impact of factors such as pollution and global warming may offer hope for greater population-based immune health to prepare us for future pandemics and offer greater resistance to chronic diseases.
