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Improving K-12 Education For Hispanic Students In Las Vegas And Beyond, Richard Reeves, Ember Smith
Improving K-12 Education For Hispanic Students In Las Vegas And Beyond, Richard Reeves, Ember Smith
Policy Briefs and Reports
Public K-12 education serves as a launching pad for economic mobility and opportunity, preparing students for college or a good-paying job. Despite K-12 education’s influence on later-in-life outcomes, schools often underserve students of color. Hispanic students in particular constitute a significant and growing portion of the U.S. student population yet are often overlooked in education literature because they are not the lowest performing demographic. In this brief, we examine how well public K-12 education serves Hispanic students in Clark County, where nearly half of students are Hispanic. We then consider factors that may influence student performance, including both in-school factors …
Retention Starts With Preparation: Preparing Black And Latinx Teachers Through Alternative Routes To Licensure, Iesha Jackson, Doris L. Watson
Retention Starts With Preparation: Preparing Black And Latinx Teachers Through Alternative Routes To Licensure, Iesha Jackson, Doris L. Watson
Policy Issues in Nevada Education: Policy Papers
Problem. Critical to the support and success of students of color is support for Black and Latinx teachers. Yet, teacher preparation programs often neglect the culturally relevant perspectives and experiences of teachers of color. This can contribute to retention issues given challenging school climates that Black and Latinx teachers must navigate. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of sound teacher recruitment, preparation, and retention practices nationally and draw alignment to the state of Ne- vada. We focus on alternative routes to licensure (ARL) because such programs are touted for increasing the number of teachers of …
Educational Equity Perspectives In Response To The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Road Map For Nevada, Patrice Leverett, Lawrence Jackson, Neffisatu Dambo, Jared Lau
Educational Equity Perspectives In Response To The Black Lives Matter Movement: A Road Map For Nevada, Patrice Leverett, Lawrence Jackson, Neffisatu Dambo, Jared Lau
Policy Issues in Nevada Education: Policy Papers
Problem. Communities across Nevada call for more equitable practices, especially to reduce contact between communities of color and law enforcement, particularly in the African American community. By increasing our cultural awareness and highlighting the commitment of the state to support an Antirac- ist Nevada, we foresee a reduction in unrest and an increase in educational outcomes across all student groups. Purpose. The purpose of this policy paper is to highlight the importance of addressing racism and racialized bias in education. Recommendations. To address the rising need for equity practices and poli- cies in Nevada, we propose six recommendations to acknowledge …
A Graphic Novel Tasting: Develop Your Professional Palate For Young Adult Comics, Amanda Melilli
A Graphic Novel Tasting: Develop Your Professional Palate For Young Adult Comics, Amanda Melilli
Library Faculty Presentations
Staying knowledgeable of the newest YA graphic novels can be a daunting task. This session will discuss some of the struggles that educators new to graphic novels face as well as a fun activity that participants can do on their own (or together!) to increase their knowledge of the format.
Access To Quality Teaching: Myths, Facts, And Potential Policy Solutions For The Future, Michael Hansen
Access To Quality Teaching: Myths, Facts, And Potential Policy Solutions For The Future, Michael Hansen
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
Many believe the public schools serving the most affluent students have a monopoly on quality teaching, and schools in high-poverty areas perform poorly due to its lack. Yet a variety of research studies in recent years have challenged this myth. This research shows teacher quality varies much more within the same school than it does across schools, even looking across schools serving students from very different backgrounds. Access to quality teaching is not equal, though it is not nearly as formidable a challenge as previously believed. A variety of potential policy solutions will be presented to enhance the access of …
Hitch Your Wagon To Institutional Goals, Anne E. Zald, Michelle Millet
Hitch Your Wagon To Institutional Goals, Anne E. Zald, Michelle Millet
Library Faculty Publications
The landscape of accreditation and accountability in higher education is in a period of rapid change, coalescing around issues identified in the 2006 report of the Spellings Commission, “A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education.” Information literacy librarians need to connect their instructional efforts to the institutional strategies and initiatives that address continuous improvement whatever their source, e.g. accreditation agencies, funding bodies such as state legislatures, institutional participation in the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA), University & College Accountability Network (U-CAN), or internal initiatives of the institution’s administration. The challenge for instruction librarians is great, requiring …
Promoting Professionalism In Master’S Level Teachers Through Research Based Writing, Jesus Garcia, P. S. Mcmillen, David A. Bolin
Promoting Professionalism In Master’S Level Teachers Through Research Based Writing, Jesus Garcia, P. S. Mcmillen, David A. Bolin
Library Faculty Presentations
Presentation of how the creators came together to redesign a course for social studies teachers.
Contemporary Children’S Literature Recommendations For Working With Preadolescent Children Of Divorce, P. S. Mcmillen, Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson
Contemporary Children’S Literature Recommendations For Working With Preadolescent Children Of Divorce, P. S. Mcmillen, Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson
Library Faculty Publications
Bibliotherapy, defined most basically, is helping with books (Hynes & Hynes-Berry, 1994). Derived from the Greek words meaning book and therapy, bibliotherapy goals fall usefully into two categories. Clinical bibliotherapy, using books to facilitate specified therapeutic goals with those experiencing significant emotional or behavioral problems, involves trained health and mental health professionals such as psychologists, counselors, psychiatric nurses, or social workers. Developmental bibliotherapy, using books to address situational, transitional, and normal developmental issues, can be implemented by others, like educators or librarians, who work in helping roles. Books provide solace, reassurance, and even escape; they also provide new ideas for …
Mapping Information Literacy Outcomes And Other Intellectual Skills Into Students' Educational Experiences, Patricia A. Iannuzzi, L Dee Fink
Mapping Information Literacy Outcomes And Other Intellectual Skills Into Students' Educational Experiences, Patricia A. Iannuzzi, L Dee Fink
Library Faculty Presentations
The 2007 report, College Learning for the New Global Century, outlines a cluster of intellectual and practical skills that are critical components of a liberal education: inquiry and analysis; critical and creative thinking; written and oral communication; quantitative literacy; information literacy; and teamwork and problem solving. The learning outcomes associated with information literacy relate to and incorporate many of the learning outcomes in all of these skill clusters. Participants in this session will address how these information literacy and related learning outcomes can be mapped into student learning experiences at three levels: in an individual course, in an academic sequence …
Building Faculty Capacity For Better Teaching And Learning, L Dee Fink, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Building Faculty Capacity For Better Teaching And Learning, L Dee Fink, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
Enhancing faculty capacity for teaching in ways that promote greater levels of student engagement and significant learning is an essential part of all other institutional changes designed to advance higher quality student learning. In this session, participants will lay out a general strategy for campus leaders to cultivate that faculty capability and then identify specific actions needed to implement such a strategy. Participants will also identify key elements of effective teaching and learning centers and brainstorm ways to build a teaching- and learning-centered institutional culture.
The Educational Role Of Research Libraries In Higher Education: A White Paper For The Directors Of The Greater Western Library Alliance, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
The Educational Role Of Research Libraries In Higher Education: A White Paper For The Directors Of The Greater Western Library Alliance, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Publications
This white paper provides background about the convergence of disparate undergraduate education movements in higher education that affect GWLA individual institutions, particularly those initiatives related to the reinvention of undergraduate education in research universities. It provides suggestions for how individual GWLA member libraries can take advantage of an unprecedented interested in education reform to assume leadership roles on our campuses, and in doing so, provide greater security for libraries during fiscal uncertainty as they position themselves, their collections, and their services as an integral part of the instructional agenda as well as the research agenda. Finally, it suggests some ways …
Using Contentdm To Compliment K-12 Curriculum: Southern Nevada--The Boomtown Years, Cory K. Lampert
Using Contentdm To Compliment K-12 Curriculum: Southern Nevada--The Boomtown Years, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
Setting the Stage for Boomtown
•2006, Libraries revamp digitization program and begin staff reorganization
•2007-2008 Implement Digitization Advisory Committee and Project Teams Launch Nevada Test Site Oral History Project: http://digital.library.unlv.edu/ntsohp/
•2008 awarded $95,000 LSTA grant to create large hybrid collection on Southern Nevada during 1900-1925
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Gian Galassi
Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Gian Galassi
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Cate Weeks, Stephanie Strow
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Cate Weeks, Stephanie Strow
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Michelle Mouton, Erin O'Donnell, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Deana Waddell
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Michelle Mouton, Erin O'Donnell, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Deana Waddell
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers, David Ashley, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Grace Russell
Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Mamie Peers, David Ashley, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Grace Russell
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Erin O'Donnell, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Cate Weeks
Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Erin O'Donnell, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Cate Weeks
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Grace Russell
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Grace Russell
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, David Ashley, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Lisa Shawcroft
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, David Ashley, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Lisa Shawcroft
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Eppie Moore, David Ashley, Grace Russell, Lori Bachand, Shane Bevell
Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Eppie Moore, David Ashley, Grace Russell, Lori Bachand, Shane Bevell
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Brenda Griego, David Ashley, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell, Gian Galassi
Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Brenda Griego, David Ashley, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell, Gian Galassi
Inside UNLV
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Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Leora Baron
Inside Unlv, Cate Weeks, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell, Leora Baron
Inside UNLV
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Metaconversations: Ongoing Discussion About Teaching Research Writing, P. S. Mcmillen, E. Hill
Metaconversations: Ongoing Discussion About Teaching Research Writing, P. S. Mcmillen, E. Hill
Library Faculty Publications
This article is a follow up to an earlier publication that developed the rationale for using conversation as a metaphor to teach research writing. We presented this proposed teaching approach at several conferences, including WILU in May 2005 at Guelph, Canada. The discussions with participants in these presentations validated the tenets of the conversational metaphor for research writing. Here we provide a description of the research activities in the presentations, the subsequent responses by participants, and our thoughts on these responses. This dialogue between participants and the authors/presenters constitutes the metaconversation about teaching research writing.
Rethinking The Undergraduate Curriculum: It Takes A Village, Christina Maslach, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Rethinking The Undergraduate Curriculum: It Takes A Village, Christina Maslach, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
The Berkeley Campus Culture:
- Research and graduate program pre-eminence
- Strong faculty governance
- Highly entrepreneurial culture
- Autonomous academic departments, schools, and colleges
- Decentralized “silos”
Berkeley Library Culture:
- Library pre-eminence
- Collections-centered
- Value of subject specialization
- Library silo
Shifting Library Culture:
- Traditional Model
- New Model
The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
The Libraries Role In The Reinvention Of Undergraduate Education, Patricia A. Iannuzzi
Library Faculty Presentations
Shifting Library Culture:
- Traditional Model
- New Model
Some In-house Strategies:
- focus on instruction as related to collections
- redefine role of liaison
- clarify expectations — link to performance review
- provide professional development
- build prestige (rewards) around instruction
- emphasize faculty voices
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Gian Galassi, Richard Jensen
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Gian Galassi, Richard Jensen
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Mae Worthey-Flennoy, Cate Weeks, Gian Galassi
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Mae Worthey-Flennoy, Cate Weeks, Gian Galassi
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.