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Prison Walls To College Halls How Do You Win With The Most Challenging Students?, Floyd D. Lyles

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Prison Walls to College Halls, How do you WIN with the most challenging students is about creating meaningful relationships, and WINning educational opportunities. I believe in all students. All students deserve the best and this presentation will provide a blueprint for success. It can be replicated in your classes, school and school district. If you WIN- YOU must be Willing to do the work and believe in your students, YOU must Invest in them and YOU must Never give up and keep working toward success, My belief at South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice is "Success Is …

Exploring The Link Between School Discipline And Restoring Relationships Using Restorative Conferences!, Derrick C. Bailey, Julia Bullock

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Participants will be able to identify the link between effective restorative conferences and school discipline. They will learn strategies that are effective for reactive and proactive conferences. Participants will analyze scenarios of actual conferences and prepare a list of things to avoid. Participants will learn how to use data to assess the effectiveness of their conferences and adjustments that may need to be made.

Sustainable, Accessible, Feasible, Effective (Safe) School Safety Planning: Educator Preparedness In Crisis Detection And Response, Katherine Fallon, Juliann Sergi Mcbrayer, Dawn Tysinger, Chad Posick, Mary Jo Carney

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

As incidents of school violence have hit the news media, school safety is of increasing interest to scholars and practitioners. Unfortunately, schools are ill-equipped to prevent violence and intervene when it occurs. This presentation will discuss how research can inform school readiness and public policy to prevent and intervene in violence.

A Trauma Responsive Approach To Fostering Resilience, Addressing Equity Issues And Improving Student Wellness And Academic Success, Mark Harrington, Joe Thompson, Kimberly Witeck

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

We’ll start with our school’s motto, “Family, Love, Respect,” which is posted in nearly every hallway, office and gathering place in our school. We attempt to provide each student with a strong sense of each. Although ours is an alternative high school, filled with stories of trauma, neglect and despair, our students are resilient! With that in mind we have created a number of programs to encourage resilience, provide a healthy path forward, decrease student discipline, and foster student success. All of these programs, and the stories we share detailing what our students have overcome show just how resilient young …

Write The Book! How To Share Research And Promising Practices To Support Underserved Students, Douglas Rife

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The needs of our students have grown exponentially in the last two years. Educators, community services and care givers are at a loss to support all of the academic, physical and emotional challenges our students are facing. Learn tips and processes for writing a book to share your research, experience and solutions to ensure the happiness and success of ALL students.

Engaging Youth In The Development, Implementation, An Evaluation Of Sexual And Reproductive Health Programs, Pam Drake, Kristin Kennedy

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This session will introduce the use of a group concept mapping process to create a conceptual model for engaging youth in sexual and reproductive health programming – particularly BIPOC LGBTQ+ youth and young men of color. We will walk through the gcm process, present the model, and explore ways to apply the model in various situations.

Together Everyone Achieves More (Team) Approach To Building A High Performance School Culture, Deadra M. Faulkner, David Zimbler

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

How do you build a school-wide culture that supports students and motivates staff on a social/emotional and instructional level? This workshop will include strategies on Leadership, Culture/Social Emotional State, and Data/Results that will assist in obtaining this achievable goal! Work with a Director of Guidance and Principal that have accomplished this important goal.

A Girl Named Sue: A Child's Journey From Complex Trauma To Hope, Healing & Recovery, Jamie S. Like Ms.

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Audience would include any school staff, counselors, social workers, parents and community members. Many children who experience complex trauma struggle emotionally, physically, and behaviorally. In this session, participants will earn to never underestimate the impact they can make on the life of a child, that damage from childhood trauma can be mitigated and that relationships, relationships, relationships are the key to everything!

Develop Restorative Capacity, Don't Defund Your Safety Network, Louis L. Fletcher Phd, David Watson

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The Executive Director of Facilities & Operations and the Director of Safety & Security for a Colorado School district with 27,000 students will share tools, techniques, and experiences, which have cultivated restorative practices (RP) in their district. The presenters will discuss the effectiveness of proactive techniques for training SROs and school security officers to provide successful restorative alternatives to traditional discipline approaches with the goal of helping participants evaluate whether getting rid of SROs versus retraining their approach to student discipline is the best alternative.

The Privacy Librarian Is In!: How Privacy Issues Affect Researchers And Libraries, John Felts, Heather Staines, Tim Lloyd, Beth Bernhardt, Russell Palmer

Library Faculty Presentations

Faced with an increasingly complex online environment through which libraries provide access to scholarly resources, librarians have found it difficult to educate users in protecting their personal information and online behaviors from inappropriate and sometimes unauthorized use while promoting the personalization services that users find beneficial. Modeled after the long-running Peanuts cartoon with Lucy offering advice for 5 cents, this interactive session will tackle key privacy issues in the researcher, vendor, and library framework. It will kick off with John Felts of Coastal Carolina staffing his post as "Privacy Librarian" while training a new library employee.

After this tour through …

Big Data Analytics On People's Perception On The Covid-19 Vaccine Through Twitter's Sentiment Analysis, Sumanth Maturi

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.

Assessing Attitudes Towards The Risk Of Automated Technologies, Daniel Wilson, Jace Niven

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.

Think Of The Children! An East New York Success Story In Academic/Socio-Emotional Intervention For At-Risk Students, Tom Ng, Martin Palamore

Male Enrollment and Graduate Alliance (MEGA)

In 2018, the faculty and leaders at Achievement First East Brooklyn High School set out to rethink what it meant to support our most vulnerable students, including those overaged and under-credited and/or with IEP's. The session will include the achievements, challenges and key takeaways for the “Evergreen Success Program,” an initiative that provides targeted socioemotional support and differentiated academic intervention through teacher development, school design, family partnerships and student voice. In 2020, the intervention led to a 90% graduation rate of our “Red-Flag Scholars” compared to a 25% graduation rate of similarly at risk students in other schools in our …

Bridging The Emotional Gap, Elijah Blackwell

Male Enrollment and Graduate Alliance (MEGA)

How many times have you heard the words: "Achievement Gap?" This presentation will review both common and uncommon contributions to educational gaps facing students of color from Kindergarten to Post Secondary. Relevant historical events and the healing needed from these events for both students and educators will be explored. Student achievement initiatives for minoritized student populations in K-12 and post secondary institutions will be discussed.

Making American Opera After Einstein, Ryan Ebright Dr.

ICS Fellow Lectures

In the wake of the avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach in 1976, opera in the United States experienced a renaissance, one which has continued to the present. My book project, Making American Opera after Einstein, centers on contemporary attempts to remake opera in an American image. In it, I detail how American opera—as a genre, a sphere of cultural institutions, an expression of national identity—has transformed significantly over the past four decades. Whereas many composers embrace operatic convention, tailoring their operas to audiences through adaptations of cherished American stories, others attempt to test the genre’s aesthetic boundaries. By exploring …

Human-Centered Change Leadership, Annie Bélanger

Presentations

In this session, GVSU Leading Laker participants learned to:

• Be aware and able to apply Human Centered change leadership and management approaches
• Articulate your values and your leadership vision
• Understand core components of change management and tools to support healthy processes

How To Add A Creative Commons License To Your Work, Amy E. Gay

Library Created Resources

These are slides from a Digital Scholarship working on understanding Creative Commons licenses and how to add one to your work. The workshop took place in March 2023.

White House Memo And Faculty Cvs, Ellen Amatangelo

Faculty Publications

This information was presented to the Subject Librarians Council. The "Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies" from the Executive Office of the President concerning "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research" was discussed. The presentation also includes a portion on how faculty publications are added the BYU's institutional repository.

Casting A New Conversation: Recognizing Information Literacy As A Discipline, Clarence Maybee, Karen Kaufmann, John Budd, Virginia Tucker

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

This presentation introduces ILIAD (Information literacy is a discipline), the elements of an academic discipline, before spotlighting panelist perspectives on the future of information literacy education and research.

Comparing Computational Design Methods For A Type 2 Diabetes Medication, Andrew Voss

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) is a promising target for the treatment of type 2 diabetes because activating this receptor improves insulin sensitivity and helps manage glucose levels in patients. However, currently approved drugs that activate this receptor have side effects, such as weight gain, weakening of bones, and cardiac failure, which have limited or halted their use. The goal of my study is to compare computational methods that estimate the binding affinity of compounds to PPARγ. To achieve this, I will estimate the binding affinities of compounds that have published experimental binding affinities to determine if the estimated binding …

An Acoustic Analysis Of French Vowel Phoneme Substitutions In Native English Speakers, Madeline G. Strah

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Learning a second language is very difficult and may require years of practice to reach fluency. However, theories like the Speech Learning Model (SLM), tell us that regardless of years of practice, perfect pronunciation of sounds that are absent in a speaker’s first language is difficult, especially if the sound is relatively similar to one in the speaker’s first language. For instance, the French vowel sound /y/, in the word sucre ‘sugar’, is absent in American English, and is very similar to the sound /u/, like in the word soupe ‘soup’. These form a minimal pair where the sounds …

Methods For Extracting Wildfire Specific Pm2.5 For The Western United States, Ava Orr

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Air pollution and PM_2.5 from wildfire smoke have steadily increased over the last decade despite decreasing anthropogenic emissions. The increase in wildfires in the western US has highlighted the need to understand better how wildfire-specific PM_2.5 affects human health. To support health risk assessment studies from wildfire smoke inhalation, differentiating between wildfire-specific PM_2.5 and non-wildfire-specific PM_2.5 is essential. We used PM_2.5 data developed by Swanson et al. and three different methods to isolate wildfire-specific PM_2.5. The PM_2.5 data uses air quality station observations, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, aerosol optical thickness data, and …

Inverting For Earth Structure Using Ocean Tides Loading The Surface, Eleanor Serviss

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

The fundamental question of geophysics is simple: What is inside the Earth? Because we cannot physically travel there, we rely on indirect methods such as mapping the strength of Earth’s gravity or studying how fast earthquakes travel through Earth’s layers. Most of our knowledge of Earth structure comes measuring the two earthquake velocity, the pressure-wave velocity and shear-wave velocity. In order to turn these two velocities into material parameters such as density, shear modulus, and modulus, we need to make assumptions about Earth structure. These assumptions come in the form of scaling and combining the velocities to recover the elastic …

Cervical Disk Rupture In A Collegiate Football Player: A Case Study, Hannah Kuracina Mx., Karl Reisig Dr., Benjamin Smith Do.

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Background: Cervical disc herniations (CDH) commonly occur between the ages of 51 and 60. Research suggests that less than 2% of patients with CDH were male and between the age of 20-29. The NFL reported 9 cases of CDH, from a singular traumatic event between 2001 and 2011. This case study examines a collegiate-aged male, a demographic not commonly associated with CDH. The typical presentation of CDH includes neck pain with unilateral numbness and tingling. CDH in young healthy adults is unusual and the clinical presentation, in this case, differs from what is commonly reported. This patient had no neurological …

Identity And Performance Anxiety In Classical Singing: A Counseling Perspective, Jadd D. Davis

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

In this practical research, I propose that performance anxiety in classical singing is more than simply “stage fright”, but a mental health concern directly tied to perceived identity. Classical singers, for whom professional preparation is lengthy and rigorous, are often referred to solely as their function in the fabric of a performance. For example, a soloist in oratorio or opera is simply seen as “the tenor”. This limiting of the totality of human embodiment weds performance outcomes with sense of self. The singer’s positive or negative perception of identity hinges upon a subjective measurement of success. The rigor of classical …

“I Give The Kids My Warty Gourd Story”: A Qualitative Study On Public Health Nurses’ Experiences With Human Papillomavirus (Hpv) Vaccination In Montana, Juthika Jayendra Thaker

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Approximately 35,000 HPV-attributable cancers are diagnosed in the United States annually. Rural communities face a higher burden of HPV-attributed infections and cancers compared to urban areas due to lower vaccination coverage. The CDC recommends a 2-dose or a 3-dose HPV vaccine series depending on the age of the initial vaccination. Only 53% of eligible adolescents in Montana had completed the HPV vaccine series. While research on vaccine delivery systems has focused mainly on private clinics, rural adolescents rely on public health facilities for their immunization needs. A thorough understanding of public health nurses’ role in improving community vaccination rates will …

Missed Opportunities To Vaccinate Teens Against Hpv: Variation And Mechanisms Between Public & Private Facilities, Patrick E. Boise

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is associated with 37,300 new cases of cancer every year in the United States, despite effective vaccines for HPV being approved and available starting in 2006. This study examines missed opportunities for HPV vaccination among US teens, where the teen has a healthcare visit but the recommended HPV dose is not administered, and evaluates the differences in the rates of these missed opportunities between private and public healthcare facilities. This study uses a health economics framework and logistic regression to analyze data from a nationally representative sample of US teens using the public use files from the …

The Top Ten Tips For A Successful Iep Meeting, Jane E. Strong Dr.

Empowering Educators Conference

Special education teachers face many challenges every day. This session will provide tried and true "Top Ten Tips" for running successful special education IEP meetings. Knowing what to expect and how to prepare for an IEP meeting is key to your successful leadership as a confident, caring and collaborative special educator. Use the terminology from our field of high leverage practices and specially designed instruction with confidence. Participants will learn the top ten tips and then apply them in discussions of frequently encountered scenarios.

Transition Of Students With Disabilities To Postsecondary Education, Kelly Dolata

Empowering Educators Conference

The presentation will focus on the difference between accommodations for students with disabilities in high school and college. Topics include IDEA and the ADA, success versus access, student responsibilities and self-advocacy.

Prophages Encode And Disseminate Bacterial Immune Systems, Amelia K. Schmidt

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Bacteria are under constant threat of infection by viruses called bacteriophages (phages).

As a result, bacteria have evolved diverse phage defense systems; however, these defenses are very specific and effectively defend against a narrow range of phages. I have discovered that the filamentous Pf phages which chronically infect the formidable bacterial pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa encode diverse phage defense systems. Infection by a competing phage mobilizes these systems, allowing defense systems to fluctuate in dominance in response to the ever-changing pressure of phage predation.