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Building A Positive Culture Around Mental Health, Kevin Kusy Nov 2019

Building A Positive Culture Around Mental Health, Kevin Kusy

Staff Publications & Research

Creating a safe and open environment for students and staff to talk about mental health and wellness is a key to developing healthy, productive students. This session will discuss how to effectively develop and sustain mental health interventions within an educational setting.


He, She, They, Them, Us: Teaching Gender Studies In A Stem Environment, Erin Micklo, Leah Kind Nov 2019

He, She, They, Them, Us: Teaching Gender Studies In A Stem Environment, Erin Micklo, Leah Kind

Faculty Publications & Research

In this session, we will share the importance of teaching Gender Studies as an English elective in a STEM school. We will introduce our curriculum, including biological and socially constructed theories of gender and how these inform gender-related legal and social challenges in our world. Areas of focus include the role of gender in: politics, sports, media, literature, and culture. Our aim is to share our experiences and course materials with other humanities teachers and discuss and strategize ways to eliminate gender bias in our own schools as well as prepare students for the post-secondary world.


2019 Diversity Climate Survey, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy Sep 2019

2019 Diversity Climate Survey, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources

In April 2019, a survey regarding diversity and school climate was administered by the Office of Equity and Excellence. This survey was adapted from the National Climate Survey developed by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). There were a total of 529students that took the survey. Those students that had incomplete surveys (n = 15) or who marked all possible choices for sexual orientation (n = 8), race/ethnicity (n = 2), or reasons for being unsafe (n = 3)were excluded from the data analysis. Of the remaining 501 authentic responses, there were 159 Sophomores, 173 Juniors, 135 Seniors, …


Moving The Needle On Diversity: Why It Matters, José M. Torres Sep 2019

Moving The Needle On Diversity: Why It Matters, José M. Torres

Publications & Research

It is imperative that leadership in business, education and other fields reflects the reality of our more diverse world and the need for more multifaceted and creative thinking.


2019 Annual Report Of The Work In Imsa’S Archives, Marti Guarin, Christian Nokkentved Aug 2019

2019 Annual Report Of The Work In Imsa’S Archives, Marti Guarin, Christian Nokkentved

Archives' Annual Report

The IMSA Archives, housed in the Leto M. Furnas Information Resource Center, serves to collect and preserve materials relating to the history and ethos of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. The Archives includes both special and general collections with materials about IMSA’s establishment, led by Dr. Leon Lederman and Governor James Thompson. There are materials about the Academy's opening in the fall of 1986 and its development since, as well as about its ideas and programs and how they evolved. We have sample curricula, presidential speeches, samples of student work, as well as material about and from partnership programs …


Discussing Multiculturally Competent Counseling With Gifted And Talented Students, Kevin Kusy Apr 2019

Discussing Multiculturally Competent Counseling With Gifted And Talented Students, Kevin Kusy

Staff Publications & Research

IMSA strives to advocate for students of all cultural backgrounds and wants to meet or exceed multicultural counseling competencies established when working with talented students. Current competency based counseling models address multicultural concepts but do not integrate framework to include social justice advocacy. This presentation will attempt to start to bridge the gap to more inclusive-based counseling work with talented students


Who Is A Gifted Or Talented Student?, Kevin Kusy Mar 2019

Who Is A Gifted Or Talented Student?, Kevin Kusy

Staff Publications & Research

Identifying our high functioning, talented students. Discuss some of the current challenges these students face. Identify ways for counselors to provide multicultural competency when working with these students and for teachers to learn how to better encourage social/emotional development in the classroom.


Diversity Plan: Academic Year 2018/2019 Status Report, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy Jan 2019

Diversity Plan: Academic Year 2018/2019 Status Report, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources

This has been a year of transition, moving from the 2014 Board Approved Diversity Plan to the development of its’ next rendition, the Equity and Excellence plan, as directed by the 2018 Board Approved Equity and Excellence policy. During this year of transition, the shift in who is driving this work has moved from a voluntary Diversity committee to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). To ensure that previous Diversity initiatives continued, there were focused Project Teams who implemented aspects of the diversity plan throughout the year, but not at the same magnitude as in previous years. The focus of this …


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 60-63, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 60-63, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

This category is reserved for artifacts of the archives. This will serve as a ready-reference category of general information materials expected to be requested frequently.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 01-05, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 01-05, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

This category is reserved for materials about IMSA in general which are of long-lasting and major importance. Examples are IMSA’s Mission, Beliefs and Philosophy. This will serve as a ready-reference category of general information materials expected to be requested frequently.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 40-41, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 40-41, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 30-39, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 30-39, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 10-21, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 10-21, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 42-47, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 42-47, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 06-09, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 06-09, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 22-29, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 22-29, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

No abstract provided.


Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 50-59, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda Jan 2019

Archives Finding Aid: Record Groups 50-59, Marti Guarin, Christian D. Nokkentved, Emily Holda

Archives Finding Aid

This category is reserved for articles in flat storage, such as posters and large documents, and various photographs and slides. This will serve as a ready-reference category of general information materials expected to be requested frequently.