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"Do Not Engage Y'All!" Training And Preparing Our Black Students For Battle, Michael J. Seaberry

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

Students' Critical Reflections on Racial (in)justice

Energy And Calm: Change It Up And Calm It Down!, Lori Desautels

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Unlike the sequels to movies, I hope that part two of last year's Energy and Calm post will continue to strengthen your understanding of how our brains naturally learn, think, and behave. So let's return to the calming yet energizing zone of focused attention practices and brain breaks, a place that would greatly benefit students -- and their teachers -- when revisited frequently.

Pre-College Deaf Students’ Understanding Of Fractional Concepts: What We Know And What We Do Not Know, Keith Mousley, Christopher Kurz

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

Mathematical knowledge and skills are crucial to success in academics and the workplace. The Common Core State Standards emphasizes fraction teaching and learning in elementary school. This mixed-method study explores fraction concept understanding among 14 deaf and hard of hearing participants between the ages of 8 and 16, as quantitatively measured by their ability to describe the properties of fractional numbers, convert between fractional numbers and their visual representations, and determine the order and equivalence of fractional numbers. Furthermore, the qualitative study was supplemented by interviews with the deaf participants and surveys with their parents and teachers to examine use …

An Exploratory Investigation Of Third Graders' Use Of Blogs To Critically Respond To Texts, Lisa A. Gilbert

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this exploratory investigation was to explore how third grade students critically respond to texts. Students will be required to analyze texts and type their analysis with the implementation of PARCC. I wanted to investigate the change that occurs with students’ responses to texts when they compose them electronically rather than with paper and pencil.

I explored the process of how students critically responded to texts through responses on a class blog. Students read two literature passages, two informational passages, and two media texts on the blog before responding to questions based upon the text. I observed how …

Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions Of Students With Learning Disabilities: Using Mixed Methods To Examine Effectiveness Of Special Education Coursework, Renée A. Greenfield, Megan Mackey, Gretchen Nelson

The Qualitative Report

As the number of K-12 students with learning disabilities educated in general education classrooms grow, it is essential to examine the preparation and perceptions of pre-service teachers (N=15) who will educate students with learning disabilities. Within the context of an undergraduate learning disabilities method course, this study examined how pre-service teachers perceived students with learning disabilities as well as the effectiveness of particular course experiences, including fieldwork with students with learning disabilities, video vignettes, lesson planning, assigned reading, and center-based instruction, in shifting perceptions. Using a convergent, mixed method design, teacher educators at a university in the northeast used surveys, …

Tanya Dube, Tanya Dube, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Tanya Dube was born and raised in Massachusetts, and after high school joined the military, serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. She is now a school food service manager in Alaska.

Johanna Herron, Johanna Herron, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Johanna Herron works with the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to promote the Farm to School Program.

Elizabeth E. Edelman, Elizabeth E. Edelman, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

An Anchorage, Alaska native, Elizabeth E. Edelman has worked in numerous areas of school nutrition in Alaska, and now is working as the food service manager in the head cook program in the Valdez district.

Lori Buzzell, Lori Buzzell, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Lori Buzzell worked for seven years in the Juneau, Alaska school nutrition program and now works in curriculum development, including incorporating a wellness policy into the school physical education programs.

The Effects Of Processing Instruction On Chinese Learners' Acquisition Of Spanish Copulae, Wesley Curtis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Processing instruction (PI) is a language teaching technique based upon the model of input processing developed by VanPatten (1993, 1996, 2002, 2004). The present study investigated the effects of PI as well as two other experimental conditions (traditional instruction and control) on the acquisition of the Spanish copulae ser and estar by 66 Chinese university students enrolled in a blended (partially presential and partially online) fourth-semester language course. The PI treatment condition included non-paradigmatic grammar explanations, processing strategies designed to help learners avoid commiting errors they may be predisposed to make, and structured input activities which eliminate redundant features of …

Debbie Kallio, Debbie Kallio, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Debbie Kallio was a 2016 Regional Director for the School Nutrition Association for the Northwest Region.

James L. Jones, James L. Jones, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

A South Carolina native, James L. Jones spent twenty-three years in the Air Force before retiring and going to work for the Alaska Military Youth Academy, where he has been for the past twenty years, where in addition to several other responsibilities he manages the child nutrition program.

Jo Dawson, Jo Dawson, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

A lifelong Alaskan, Jo Dawson attended fifteen different schools growing up, as her family followed he father’s career as a state trooper. Having worked as the National School Lunch Program Coordinator, the Child and Adult Care Food Program Coordinator, and the USDA Foods Coordinator, she now is the Alaska State Director for nutrition programs.

Walter D. Williams, Jr., Walter D. Williams, Jr., Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Born in Alabama and reared in Florida, Walter D. Williams, Jr., then joined the U.S. Air Force and served twenty years all over the world before retiring and settling in Alaska. He now works as a nutrition specialist in rural Alaska.

Lydia Wirkus, Lydia Wirkus, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Lydia Wirkus, a Florida native, grew up in the Miami area, near the Everglades. After college at Florida State, she taught for a few years in Miami, and then earned a master’s degree. One day she woke up and decided she didn’t want to live in Miami anymore, and that it would be cool to move to Alaska, so she drove from Miami to Alaska and taught for a few years. After earning a second master’s in nutrition at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, she returned to Alaska and worked for a while in child nutrition, before returning …

Adrianne Schwartz, Adrianne Schwartz, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Adrianne Schwartz is a food service supervisor in Juneau, Alaska.

Teresa Harwell, Teresa Harwell, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Teresa Harwell is a school food service director in Alaska.

Susan Greene, Susan Greene, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

A native of Virginia, with many years serving in Virginia education programs, first as a culinary instructor, then a school principal, before moving into child nutrition, Susan Greene is now a food service director in rural Alaska.

Sandra Ponte, Sandra Ponte, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Sandra Ponte, a Michigan native, moved to Colorado after high school and worked for a decade in hospitality management. She is now a food service manager in rural Alaska.

Michael Anderson, Michael Anderson, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Michael Anderson, originally from Oregon, now cooks for the Nenana School District in Alaska.