Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 14 of 14
Full-Text Articles in Education
What Does It Mean To Work In A System That Fails You And Your Kids? : A Beginning Teacher’S Journey Through The Chicago Public Schools, Charles Vanover
What Does It Mean To Work In A System That Fails You And Your Kids? : A Beginning Teacher’S Journey Through The Chicago Public Schools, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
This ethnodramatic performance session expands (Feldman, 2005; Saldaña, 2002, 2011; Snyder-Young, 2010) data taken from four narrative interviews shared by a first year teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. The session is constructed to evoke the teacher’s personal experience and bring to life the structures of power that shape her work (Denzin, 2001; Jacob, Stone, & Roderick, 2004; Kazubowski-Houston, 2010; Lipman, 2006; Roderick & Nagaoka, 2005; Vanover & Saldaña, 2005). No claims are made as the result of the performance; no judgments are rendered; no agendas are served. The session is designed to bring audience members together to ask deeper …
Using An Ethnodramatic Case To Discuss Leadership For Social Justice, Charles Vanover, Tiffany Harris, Omar J. Salaam, Roderick Jones, Heather Mcconnell
Using An Ethnodramatic Case To Discuss Leadership For Social Justice, Charles Vanover, Tiffany Harris, Omar J. Salaam, Roderick Jones, Heather Mcconnell
Charles Vanover
This symposium inquires into a critical question in leadership preparation: "How do we prepare educational leadership candidates to work as change agents in institutions guided by socially unjust policies where professionals act with limited discretion?" The symposium uses an ethnodramatic case, adult learning techniques, and an expert panel to ignite dialogue and explore the gap between our field's vision for socially just schools and the demoralizing conditions where too many students learn and teachers teach.
Using Ethnodrama To Understand And Communicate Interview Data: Paper For The Arts-Based Educational Research Sig 2015 Annual Meeting Of The American Educational Research Association, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
In this paper, I discuss my efforts to use arts-based methods to understand teachers' work in schools shaped by the No Child Left Behind law and other mass reforms. I describe how the process of writing, rehearsing, and putting up multiple performances of six ethnodramas allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of the data I used as the source material for these productions. Ethnodrama changed my view of what mattered in my data, and this understanding guided my choices as I created the scripts and worked with actors and community members to put up the shows.
The Sunbay Digital Mathematics Project: An Infrastructural And Capacity-Based Approach To Improving Mathematics Teaching And Learning At Scale, Charles Vanover, George J. Roy, Zafer Unal, Vivian Fueyo, Phillip Vahey
The Sunbay Digital Mathematics Project: An Infrastructural And Capacity-Based Approach To Improving Mathematics Teaching And Learning At Scale, Charles Vanover, George J. Roy, Zafer Unal, Vivian Fueyo, Phillip Vahey
Charles Vanover
This paper discusses the first year of the SunBay Digital Mathematics Project (SunBay Math) and the project‘s implications for educational reform. It reviews the research literature on the SimCalc replacement unit Managing the Soccer Team and describes the unit‘s implementation in a large, urban district. Findings from professional development experiences, teacher observations, and student gain scores are shared. Similar to the results published in Roschelle, Schectman, et al. (2010), there was a large and significant increase in mathematics understanding for SunBay Math students who learned in classrooms implementing Managing the Soccer Team in contrast to students in Texas control classrooms.
The Expertise In Urban Teaching Project: Interview Instruments, Pilot Study, And Other Materials, Charles Vanover
The Expertise In Urban Teaching Project: Interview Instruments, Pilot Study, And Other Materials, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
Materials from Charles Vanover's dissertation, The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project. The data from the interviews analyzed in this work were used for Inquiry Theatre productions such as "System Failure," "They Will Only Steal Your Cars," "Goodbye to All That!" and "Listening to the Silences" and other publications. Files include the original interview instruments for the four interviews of the study conducted in Chicago in June and August of 2004, as well as the study's recruitment letters and IRB forms. The pilot oral history interview instrument used to collect the data dramatized in "Teaching the Power of the Word" (Vanover, …
"They Are Only Going To Steal Your Cars." : An Ethnodrama About Teaching In The Chicago Public Schools, Charles Vanover
"They Are Only Going To Steal Your Cars." : An Ethnodrama About Teaching In The Chicago Public Schools, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
The center of this ethnodrama is a brief dialogue voiced by an African-American, National Board Certified teacher, where she shared the advice the African American principal in her previous school gave her about her classroom’s many special needs students. “It’s one of those schools where, like, if your heart is not in it, your kids are going to feel it. And then, she also gets awesome teachers, but our principal knows how to make them go away! Like I did. I stayed there for two years, and it was just like, you have to believe in your kids. You know, …
A Selection Of Documents From The Usfsp Practicum, Olivia Hodges, Charles Vanover
A Selection Of Documents From The Usfsp Practicum, Olivia Hodges, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
This item publishes a collection of program documents from the USFSP Educational Leadership Development Program mentioned in Vanover and Hodges (2014): "Teaching Data Use and School Leadership." The collection includes the 2008 USFSP Practicum Handbook, two 2009 USFSP 360 Evaluation forms, and the 2008 USFSP College of Education, Educational Leadership Development Program, Practicum/District Agreement Form.
A Note On The Florida Accountability System: Supplemental Document For "Analyzing Data And Asking Questions At Shell School, Sea County Florida.", Charles Vanover
A Note On The Florida Accountability System: Supplemental Document For "Analyzing Data And Asking Questions At Shell School, Sea County Florida.", Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
This document is part of the online documentation for the published case study "Analyzing Data and Asking Questions at Shell School, Sea County Florida."
Chalkboard Concerto: Growing Up As A Teacher In The Chicago Public Schools, Charles Vanover, Johnny Saldaña
Chalkboard Concerto: Growing Up As A Teacher In The Chicago Public Schools, Charles Vanover, Johnny Saldaña
Charles Vanover
Charlkboard Concerto is an ethnodramic performance piece that attempts to share a portion of what I learned as I worked to become a teacher in the Chicago Public Schools in the early 1990’s. Johnny Saldaña and I wrote and produced the ethnodrama to communicate the moments of grace I felt as I learned to teach and to allow audience members to feel the acts of kindness that continually inspired me to do better. Teaching in the Chicago Public Schools was the hardest thing that I ever did in my life and the most rewarding choice I ever made. Johnny and …
Ethnodrama As Collective Inquiry: A Presentation By Dr. Charles Vanover Followed By A Play, Charles Vanover
Ethnodrama As Collective Inquiry: A Presentation By Dr. Charles Vanover Followed By A Play, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
Photos, program, and poster from the talk, "Ethnodrama as Collective Inquiry" hosted by the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program of The Ohio State University on October 29th, 2014. This short talk was followed by a performance of Charles Vanover's ethnodrama "What does it mean to work in a system that fails you and your kids?" Jennifer Jean Smith performed the part of Halsted Hoyne, Taylor Sutton performed the part of the Interviewer, and Dr. Tatiana Suspitsyna acted as facilitator. The program includes a brief bibliography.
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
Powerpoint and pictures from the presentation "Coding for oral history portraits, ethnodramas, and other performances." Presented at as part of the symposium “Coding for Interpretation and Performance.” Mihas, P., Saldaña, J., S., Keene, E., & Vanover, C. Presented the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Champaign-Urbana, IL. 4/2014
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
Subject: Tiffany Harris Pictures from the presentation "Coding for oral history portraits, ethnodramas, and other performances." Presented at as part of the symposium “Coding for Interpretation and Performance.” Mihas, P., Saldaña, J., S., Keene, E., & Vanover, C. Presented the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Champaign-Urbana, IL. 4/2014
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
Subject: Tiffany Harris Pictures from the presentation "Coding for oral history portraits, ethnodramas, and other performances." Presented at as part of the symposium “Coding for Interpretation and Performance.” Mihas, P., Saldaña, J., S., Keene, E., & Vanover, C. Presented the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Champaign-Urbana, IL. 4/2014
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover
Charles Vanover
Subject: Charles Vanover at the Congress Pictures from the presentation "Coding for oral history portraits, ethnodramas, and other performances." Presented at as part of the symposium “Coding for Interpretation and Performance.” Mihas, P., Saldaña, J., S., Keene, E., & Vanover, C. Presented the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Champaign-Urbana, IL. 4/2014