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Breaking Silos In Educator Learning: A Public-Private Partnership Model, Jesslyn R. Hollar, Chelsea Feusner, Carrie Kracl, Megan Adkins, Shannon C. Mulhearn

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

Early childhood literacy development is a key predictor of long-term academic success, yet many early childhood educators and particularly those in rural education settings lack access to high-quality, evidence-based professional learning. Increasing policy mandates related to the science of reading have intensified the need for coordinated systems between policy, research, and instructional practice. This qualitative program evaluation examines Project RISE (Reading Instructional Strategies for Educators), a statewide professional learning initiative developed through a public–private partnership among a regional university, a state department of education, and an educational industry partner. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, Wenger’s Communities of Practice, and …

Scaling For Success: Expanding The Empire State Teacher Residency Program, Sharon Sullivan-Rubin, Charity Dacey, Nicole Aveni

Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities involved in scaling the Empire State Teacher Residency Program (ESTRP), a partnership between Touro University and New York City Public Schools, operating within the US PREP coalition. As ESTRP expands from an inaugural cohort of 12 to potentially over 600 residents, the study examines how program quality, fidelity, and equity can be maintained during rapid growth. Drawing on Senge’s organizational learning theory and Fullan’s framework for educational change, the research highlights the importance of systems thinking, shared vision, and feedback loops in supporting sustainable expansion. The study details how collaborative professional learning communities, …

Burning Bridges? Conflicting Advice In Early Job Reneging And Implications For Practice, Amanda Leigh Bisson, Jo-Louise Huq

Engaged Management ReView

The time between early talent offers and students’ graduation dates is increasing. Although students are strongly encouraged by their universities not to renege on accepted early job offers, reneging is not uncommon in practice. In this paper, we explore how students approach the reneging decision, specifically examining the questions they ask and the advice they receive from peers and professionals. Using an interpretivist approach and reflective thematic analysis, we analyzed 25 Reddit posts by accounting students navigating reneges. Our findings offer novel insights into the student experience and the advice students are receiving from social network contacts. We find that …

Climate Change And The Upending Of Food Heritage: Fugu In Japan, Voltaire Cang

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Japan is a country with hundreds of food products and traditions tied to regional pride and identity. However, rising temperatures and extreme weather patterns attributed to climate change have caused unstable, decreasing, and lower-quality yields of many foods in regions where these have traditionally thrived or been sourced, thereby threatening the continuity and very existence of regional heritage foods and related traditions and, thus, identity. This paper employs the case of fugu (pufferfish), the highly poisonous seafood delicacy from Shimonoseki (Yamaguchi Prefecture), to illustrate the ways climate change is upending food heritage in Japan. Until 30 years ago, the seas …

Bonding Through Boucherie: Strengthening Social Ties Through Butchery, Evelyn Lambeth

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

“La boucherie de quartier” is a Cajun phrase referring to a neighbourhood pig slaughter. One such annual event, the Lâche Pas Boucherie in southern Louisiana, brings multiple generations and many traditions together with the goal of sharing and celebrating music, food and culture. Boudin, crackling, andouille sausage, and hogshead cheese are but a few of the unique offerings from this melting pot of shared flavours. I was born and raised in southern Louisiana but rarely appreciated the novelty of Cajun cuisine until I moved to Australia. The flavours and spices of my former home add a certain piquancy that is …

A Crisis Of Blood – The Slow Death Of Ireland’S Fresh Blood Black Pudding Tradition, Kate Ryan

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Fresh blood black pudding is one of the oldest foods of Ireland, yet rapidly declining access to fresh animal blood means this is a food under threat of extinction. Underpinning this crisis is the shuttering of abattoirs capable or willing to collect blood at slaughter. However, this is a crisis hidden from view of the consumer as proliferation of cheap mass-made puddings reliant on imported dried blood obfuscates the issue. The result is that this is a food crisis experienced only by those who persist – by obligation to recipe, legacy and tradition – in keeping the practice alive. This …

Hands To Work, Hearts To Hope: Mutual Aid And The Re- Embodiment Of Care In An Age Of Crisis, April Mcgreger

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Mutual aid and charity groups often pay attention to the tangible results of their work for the groups serviced but too often ignore the benefits of the work to the workers themselves. Using the experience of the People’s Kitchen in Philadelphia, the author details the diversity of experiences of kitchen workers and some of the benefits of volunteering. Methodology uses surveys and self- ethnology and contributes to new areas of research.

Global Climate Change: Knowledge, Behaviors, And Attitudes Among College Students, Corey H. Basch, Helen Yousef, Grace C. Hillyer

CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change

Purpose: Effective educational strategies addressing global climate change can prepare students to think critically and act accordingly on this pressing topic.

Methods: We conducted surveys among a sample of undergraduate college students in northern New Jersey in Spring 2024. Data collected included demographic characteristics, climate change information seeking, actual knowledge of climate change impact, emotions, attitudes, and beliefs around climate change, environmental concerns, and planned pro-environmental behaviors. Univariable analyses by level of self-reported knowledge and motivation to be environmentally conscious were conducted.

Results: Of 137 eligible students, 64.9% stated having high climate change knowledge. The mean actual knowledge score was …

Irish Women's Immigration Inquiry, Grace J. Durrence

Teaching Social Studies in the Peach State

This lesson examines how gender and ethnicity shaped portrayals of Irish immigrant women in 19th-century political cartoons. Using a mix of modern media examples, historical cartoons, and structured analysis tools, students explore how visual exaggeration, symbolism, and composition were used to create and spread stereotypes about Irish women. Aligned with SSUSH11.d, the lesson situates these images within broader themes of immigration, industrialization, and cultural identity.

The Beast Sleeps Down In Georgia, Sophia Flamoe

Fragments

No abstract provided.

Superman And Coca-Cola, Karen Pepper

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

One crisis we currently face is the rising incidence of diabetes worldwide, arguably due to the inclusion of sugar, in one form or another, in nearly all processed foods. Superman and Coca Cola, two symbols prominent in the American cultural landscape, suggest an association of sugar consumption and power. Indeed, sweetness appeals to us both as a taste and as a concept, and sugar, accordingly, is often marketed not as nourishing but as empowering. Superman may seem far removed from discussions of food. However, the possibility of acquiring greater-than-human strength was apparently uppermost in the minds of mid-twentieth century Americans, …

The Pub “Crisis” And The Future Of Alcohol-Related “Third Spaces”: A Cross-National Survey, Perry Share

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Across a range of countries, pubs and cognate drinking venues are shrinking in number and being reimagined in function. This paper examines the contemporary “pub crisis” in Ireland, Britain, Hungary, Japan, South Korea, the Netherlands and Australia, drawing on academic, policy, media and industry materials gathered during late 2025 and early 2026. It argues that, despite different national histories and drinking cultures, similar pressures recur: rising costs, labour shortages, changing alcohol consumption, weakened after-work drinking norms, and redevelopment pressures, with rural and peripheral areas often most exposed. The paper treats pubs not simply as licensed businesses, but as contested forms …

The Eradication Of Manual Hop Picking As A Rural Tradition Due To The Brewing And Economic Crisis In Post-War Britain, Judith Boyle

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Manual hop-picking during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represented far more than a form of agricultural labour; it constituted a significant seasonal activity that connected urban working-class communities with rural economies. In the hop-growing regions of Kent, in particular, hop-picking developed into an important cultural tradition that served simultaneously as seasonal employment, a temporary escape from urban life, a working holiday, and a source of supplementary income for working-class families. However, the rationalisation and mechanisation of agriculture, combined with the brewing industry’s increasing emphasis on efficiency and cost reduction within a changing British economic and consumer environment, contributed …

Tables Of Power: Ritualised Feasting And Political Negotiation In Irish History, Elizabeth Waters, Elaine Mahon

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

This paper examines feasting in two specific contexts: the sagas of the early Irish medieval period, and the diplomatic history of the Irish state. Far from being decorative or incidental, feasting is shown to be a system of commensal politics that converts uncertainty into opportunity as well as symbolic capital. In the examples explored, the shared meal is shown to be not just a convivial gathering but a means through which authority is demonstrated, crises negotiated or averted, and relationships renewed.

The Second Life Of Information, Thomas D. Haley

Florida Law Review

Information permeates every aspect of modern life. It is the price we pay for access to online services and the form in which we embody creative works. Law and policymaking tend to focus on first-order uses and transactions; information for access serves as the paradigmatic example. But information enjoys a robust second life—one that constitutes the true value and power that drives firms’ decisionmaking—as assets. Once aggregated and assetized, the power and risk associated with information increases exponentially.

To explore the implications of information’s second life, this Article introduces the concept of “untethered information.” Assetization depends on severing the connections …

Reputation Reconsidered, James Gibson

Florida Law Review

Reputation has a great reputation. We know this because the law values, venerates, and subsidizes reputation in many ways. Contract law relies on it as a means of disciplining the market without the need for intrusive regulation. Defamation law lets individuals and businesses seek relief when their reputations are sullied. Trademark law grants exclusive rights in order to encourage rightsholders to invest in their reputations. In these fields and others, the law views reputation as an important, socially positive good.

This faith in the integrity and value of reputation is unwarranted. Our impression of any given business is subject to …

The Model Constitutional Convention: A Simulated Exercise In Constitutional Reform, Stefanie A. Lindquist, Neta Borshansky

Florida Law Review

This Essay explains how the Model Constitutional Convention (MCC) was structured and the amendments it produced. It reflects on the impact the event had on the participants and on how a national movement to host MCCs across the country might unfold. It concludes with thoughts about how the MCC might be improved in future years to simulate more closely the reality of legal, social, and political conditions in the United States—conditions that have the potential to shape constitutional reform efforts.

Method Of Fast Accessing Reallocated Sectors, Randi Walz, Jian Qiang, Kai Chen, Brian Edgar, Yu Hang Chen

Defensive Publications Series

In current HDD design, reallocation is a remapping between logical and physical address, the reallocations are treated as LLRW error, and extra disc requests, seeks are needed to process reallocations. The reallocation count is visible through SMART which could show unhealthy status to users. Although reallocations can be cached by current data caching scheme, it is temporary, and not available if users turn off caching feature, or enabling FUA mode. In this method: The reallocated sectors are kept in a reserved cache space since power up, and to be accessed through cache nearly permanently unless # of reallocated sectors exceed …

Caldwell–Copilot Modular Sepsis–Ards Support Loop (C‑C Mass‑Loop V1.0), Michael Victor Caldwell Mr.

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes a bench‑scale, open‑hardware system that combines:

• A modular extracorporeal flow loop with several plug‑in conditioning cartridges

• A vascular‑support cartridge that shapes pressure and shear

• A non‑invasive lung and clot monitoring rig using sensors on simple phantoms

• A transparent control and safety layer

The goal is to give researchers a physical platform to study how:

• Removing or reshaping particle/aggregate loads in a flowing fluid

• Adjusting pressure and shear envelopes

• And continuously monitoring respiratory‑like and clot‑like signals

may support future adjunctive strategies for sepsis and ARDS‑like syndromes.

This system is not a medical device, not for human or animal …

Law Enforcement Active Shooter Preparedness Grading System: A Campus Police Officer’S Perspective, Sean Patrick Gilligan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

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Ethical Recruitment In Graduate Education: How Labor Market Intelligence Shapes Messaging For Master’S Programs With Varying Career Outcomes, Alexander Charles Harm

Theses and Dissertations

Graduate recruitment messaging increasingly incorporates labor market information (LMI) to communicate the value of master’s programs, yet little is known about how marketing and admissions professionals decide when and how to use this data. This qualitative single-case study examines how recruitment and marketing professionals at a public research institution leverage LMI when framing the value of master’s programs with varying career outcomes. Drawing on interviews and analysis of recruitment materials, the study explores how data related to salary, job growth, and employer demand are selectively incorporated into recruitment messaging, shaping how program value is communicated to prospective students. While research …

Same-Subject Induction Experiences For Elementary Music Teachers: Teacher Efficacy Beliefs, Experiences Of Isolation, And Job Satisfaction, Wendy Tams Hickman

Theses and Dissertations

This survey study seeks to explain the relationships between elementary music teachers' experiences with same-subject induction support and those teachers' feelings of teacher efficacy, experiences of isolation, and job satisfaction. Independent variables came from latent class groupings of same-subject induction support for beginning elementary music teachers. Teacher background variables were also included as controls. Three- and four-step regression models helped provide understanding about how the relative set of predictors--teacher background variables, isolation levels, induction experiences, and interaction terms--predicted the three outcomes. Initial regression analyses showed that the number of years of teaching elementary music predicted efficacy and levels of isolation …

Chilling Effect Or Safety Measure? Scrutinizing Louisiana's 25-Foot Buffer Law, Madison Adams

LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy

No abstract provided.

Treatment Providers’ Perspectives On Reintegration Of African American Registered Sex Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities, Laneka Sherelle Smith

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

No abstract provided.

Commencement Program - Seton Hall University Class Of 2026 School Of Law Commencement Exercises

Graduation

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Intersectionality And Insurgent Citizenship: Women Of Color Feminism In 1970s New York City, Genevieve Bonner Davis

Dissertations and Theses

Not since the phrase "Ain't I a Woman" has African American women's intellectual leadership and insight been as visible and influential as the contemporary concept of intersectionality. Like Sojourner Truth's iconic intellectual intervention in the anti-slavery movement, intersectionality has experienced a similar trajectory of dissolution, distortion, appropriation, and popularization. Since its articulation by Black legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, intersectionality theory has had a bumpy road to its buzzy, if controversial, status in the firmament of twenty-first-century political thought.

This thesis traces the origins of intersectionality theory through three distinct but intertwined phases. Phase one is the genealogy of …

Locked And Loopholed: Louisiana Cities Taking Shots At Constitutional Carry, Owen W. Reppond

LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy

No abstract provided.

From Film Club To Football: Revisiting The Denial Of Due Process Protections To Public School Students, Heather Trick

LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy

No abstract provided.

Our Past Should Not Define Our Future: History's Icy Grip On First Amendment Jurisprudence, Brenna Lauga

LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy

No abstract provided.

Shifting Gears: The Intersection Of Tort Reform And Auto Insurance In Louisiana, Gabrielle Elyse Fontenot

LSU Law Journal for Social Justice & Policy

No abstract provided.