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Why Concept Maps?, Sarah Carter, Julie Hirchert Dec 2020

Why Concept Maps?, Sarah Carter, Julie Hirchert

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Writing Influences: A Timeline Of Teaching Writing As A Process, S. Rebecca Leigh, Linda Ayres Dec 2020

Writing Influences: A Timeline Of Teaching Writing As A Process, S. Rebecca Leigh, Linda Ayres

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Professional Books Of Interest, Kathy Highfield, Laura Pardo Dec 2020

Professional Books Of Interest, Kathy Highfield, Laura Pardo

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Vocabulary Instruction For Ells, Elizabeth I. Vander Woude Dec 2020

Vocabulary Instruction For Ells, Elizabeth I. Vander Woude

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


For The Love Of Literature: The Limitless Power Of Poetry, Laura Apol Dec 2020

For The Love Of Literature: The Limitless Power Of Poetry, Laura Apol

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


The Role Of Developmental Word Knowledge In Achieving Fluency, Marcia Invernizzi Dec 2020

The Role Of Developmental Word Knowledge In Achieving Fluency, Marcia Invernizzi

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


What Picturebook Apps Can Teach Us About Supporting Literacy Development In A Digital Age, Earl Aguilera Dec 2020

What Picturebook Apps Can Teach Us About Supporting Literacy Development In A Digital Age, Earl Aguilera

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Culturally And Linguistically Responsive Teaching Anf Learning: Classroom Practices For Student Success, Angela Harris Dec 2020

Culturally And Linguistically Responsive Teaching Anf Learning: Classroom Practices For Student Success, Angela Harris

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


The Overwhelmingly White, Straight, And Able Face Of Children's Literature, Laura M. Jimenez Dec 2020

The Overwhelmingly White, Straight, And Able Face Of Children's Literature, Laura M. Jimenez

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Issues Related To Literacy As It Applies To Children Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing, Leala Holcomb, Debbie Golos, Annie Moses Dec 2020

Issues Related To Literacy As It Applies To Children Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing, Leala Holcomb, Debbie Golos, Annie Moses

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Michigan Reading Journal Dec 2020

Front Matter, Michigan Reading Journal

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Workplace English As Professional Development: The Uw-Madison Model, Karen Parrillo Dec 2020

Workplace English As Professional Development: The Uw-Madison Model, Karen Parrillo

MITESOL Journal: An Online Publication of MITESOL

University human resources departments dedicate themselves to providing relevant professional development to their institutions’ employees. However, few of these departments consider the language learning needs of employees who are nonnative English speakers. This paper introduces the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison)’s unique approach to meeting the English language learning needs of employees through its Cultural Linguistic Services (CLS) department within the Office of Human Resources (OHR). The CLS Workplace English Program features the development of contextualized learning materials, active participation of employees’ supervisors, dynamic scheduling, and on-the-job practice with authentic communicative tasks. The collaboration between CLS/OHR and other UW-Madison departments has …


Stuck In The Middle: An Illustrated Essay On Covid-19 And Other Past Pandemics, Amanda Pszczolkowski Dec 2020

Stuck In The Middle: An Illustrated Essay On Covid-19 And Other Past Pandemics, Amanda Pszczolkowski

Honors Projects

The project is a visual essay, in a graphic novel-esque style, exploring how the coronavirus compares to other illness outbreaks of the past century and how the associated restrictions have impacted me at an individual level. The creative nonfiction essay intertwines historical perspectives as a way to inform, contextualize, and reflect my own experience with COVID-19. The project began with extensive research on illness outbreaks of the past century, current developments in the Coronavirus pandemic, and genre conventions of graphic novels and memoirs. The intent was to provide a cohesive whole that illuminates themes in the linguistic essay.


Analysis Of Racial/Ethnic Disparities And Language Barriers In Radiation Therapy, Carrie Warner Dec 2020

Analysis Of Racial/Ethnic Disparities And Language Barriers In Radiation Therapy, Carrie Warner

Honors Projects

It is important for every patient within healthcare to have access to and receive quality care no matter their race, ethnicity, and/or primary language. Focusing on cancer care in the United States, there are racial and ethnic disparities as well as language barriers, both within the English language itself and with foreign languages, that prevent patients from receiving high quality care. This meta-analysis provides evidence of current disparities within healthcare that can be applied to the radiation oncology department and reveals suggestions for advancements including the use of language-concordant physicians and medical interpreters. Some of the policies, plans, and resources …


Gender Expansive Students In The Choral Classroom: Awareness & Practices Of Secondary Music Educators, Emma E. Taranko Dec 2020

Gender Expansive Students In The Choral Classroom: Awareness & Practices Of Secondary Music Educators, Emma E. Taranko

Honors Projects

In an age of growing diversity, it is essential for educators, both pre- and in-service, to seek out strategies that will assist them in creating a welcoming classroom environment for all learners. It is incumbent upon choral music teachers and community leaders to educate themselves in the diversity that presents itself in their classrooms in order to better service all students. In this study, twenty-five secondary music educators shared their awareness of gender expansive students in their choir classrooms and any strategies they have used to better service their singers. This study was conducted in order to assess which strategies …


Resisting Hyper-Partisan Silencing: Arendt On Political Persuasion Through Exemplification And Truth-Telling As Action, Andrew D. Spear Dec 2020

Resisting Hyper-Partisan Silencing: Arendt On Political Persuasion Through Exemplification And Truth-Telling As Action, Andrew D. Spear

Articles, Book Chapters, Essays

A central frustration of recent political discourse is the consistent reduction of politically relevant factual and critical speech to mere expression of partisan commitment. Partisans of “the other side”—members of the other tribe—are viewed as de facto wrong, because partisans, even when their speech invokes mere facts or purportedly shared political principles. Ideally, democratic political discourse operates along at least two central dimensions: a dimension of shared factual, historical, and political assumptions, and a more contested dimension of interpretation, prioritization, and evaluation that results in diverse and often competing understandings of what is good, and so of what is best …


Is2020 A Competency Model For Undergraduate Programs In Information Systems: The Joint Acm/Ais Is2020 Task Force, Paul Leidig, Hannu Salmela Dec 2020

Is2020 A Competency Model For Undergraduate Programs In Information Systems: The Joint Acm/Ais Is2020 Task Force, Paul Leidig, Hannu Salmela

College of Computing Peer-Reviewed Articles

The IS2020 report is the latest in a series of model curricula recommendations and guidelines for undergraduate degrees in Information Systems (IS). The report builds on the foundations developed in previous model curricula reports to develop a major revision of the model curriculum with the inclusion of significant new characteristics. Specifically, the IS2020 report does not directly prescribe a degree structure that targets a specific context or environment. Rather, the IS2020 report provides guidance regarding the core content of the curriculum that should be present but also provides flexibility to customize curricula according to local institutional needs.


Using Multi-Tiered Systems Of Support To Improve Student Outcomes, Kevin Daniel Annis Dec 2020

Using Multi-Tiered Systems Of Support To Improve Student Outcomes, Kevin Daniel Annis

Masters Projects

The passing of NCLB and ESSA creates a mandate that every school must take proactive steps toward every student in their population to be college and career ready. U.S. students are consistently scoring lower on achievement than students from other developed nations. With diversifying student demographics and a relatively stable teaching demographic, schools needed to develop systems to help each student be successful. Many schools have begun to utilize a tiered system of support; however, schools are focused on different aspects of intervention. Effective models of student support include developing a quality school environment, social and emotional learning, response-to-intervention, and …


Neurodiversity And The Deep Structure Of Schools, Peter Smagorinsky Nov 2020

Neurodiversity And The Deep Structure Of Schools, Peter Smagorinsky

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.


Understanding Contraflow Pop-Culture Tourism: The Case Of Transnational Fandom Of South Korean Pop-Culture And The “Hallyu” Tourism, Jungyun "Christine" Hur, Tony Kim Nov 2020

Understanding Contraflow Pop-Culture Tourism: The Case Of Transnational Fandom Of South Korean Pop-Culture And The “Hallyu” Tourism, Jungyun "Christine" Hur, Tony Kim

Journal of Tourism Insights

Pop-culture tourism has continuously grown its market among those who are fanatic of pop-culture, and destination marketers have noticed pop-culture as an effective marketing tool to attract more visitors. Pop-culture has been dominant by the US, but interestingly, a recent phenomenon sees a contra-cultural flow. This paper explores contraflow pop-culture tourism and guides the reader to how to understand this new tourism niche. Reviewing the case of transnational fandom of South Korean pop-culture, so called “Korean Wave” or “Hallyu” and its impact on inbound tourism, this paper suggests digital mediation as a key driver of contraflow pop-culture and transnational fandom, …


Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, And Pedagogy, Raven Jones Stanbrough Oct 2020

Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, And Pedagogy, Raven Jones Stanbrough

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Let's Read A Story!: Collaborative Meaning Making, Student Engagement, And Vocabulary Building Through The Use Of Interactive Read-Alouds, Shaya Helbig, Susan V. Piazza Oct 2020

Let's Read A Story!: Collaborative Meaning Making, Student Engagement, And Vocabulary Building Through The Use Of Interactive Read-Alouds, Shaya Helbig, Susan V. Piazza

Michigan Reading Journal

The interactive read-aloud has long been a practice during early literacy instruction in schools and in homes. Reading aloud to children provides a platform for teachers or caregivers to model meaning-making interactions with text. Students are able to collaboratively engage in conversations to create a collective understanding of texts. Interactions during a read-aloud can foster engagement, create meaning, and promote vocabulary acquisition. This article examines current research that supports the use of interactive read alouds to engage learners in meaning-making processes and translates research and theory into practical recommendations for effective interactive read-alouds.


From The Editors…, Meghan Block, Carlin Borsheim-Black, Troy Hicks Oct 2020

From The Editors…, Meghan Block, Carlin Borsheim-Black, Troy Hicks

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Oct 2020

Front Matter

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Full Issue: Volume 53, No. 1 Oct 2020

Full Issue: Volume 53, No. 1

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Seeing In Color: Three Reading Teachers Explore The Importance Of Multicultural Children's Literature, Rose Crowley, Monica Fountain, Rachelle Torres Sep 2020

Seeing In Color: Three Reading Teachers Explore The Importance Of Multicultural Children's Literature, Rose Crowley, Monica Fountain, Rachelle Torres

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


No More Low Expectations For English Learners, Jennie Khalil Sep 2020

No More Low Expectations For English Learners, Jennie Khalil

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Literacy Lessons Learned, Various Authors Sep 2020

Literacy Lessons Learned, Various Authors

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


A Two-Voice Poem On Self-Care In Academia, S. Rebecca Leigh, Dana Lynn Driscoll Sep 2020

A Two-Voice Poem On Self-Care In Academia, S. Rebecca Leigh, Dana Lynn Driscoll

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.


Tag: Automated Image Captioning, Nathan Funckes Sep 2020

Tag: Automated Image Captioning, Nathan Funckes

McNair Scholars Manuscripts

Many websites remain non-ADA compliant, containing images which lack accompanying textual descriptions. This leaves sight-impaired individuals unable to fully enjoy the rich wonders of the web. To address this inequity, our research aims to create an autonomous system capable of generating semantically accurate descriptions of images. This problem involves two tasks: recognizing an image and linguistically describing it. Our solution uses state-of-the-art deep learning: employing a convolutional neural network that "learns" to understand images and extracts their salient features, and a recurrent neural network that learns to generate structured, coherent sentences. These two networks are merged to create a single …