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Virginia’S Medicaid Dental Program Celebrates 20 Years, Laura Givens Oct 2025

Virginia’S Medicaid Dental Program Celebrates 20 Years, Laura Givens

Virginia Dental Journal

Virginia’s Cardinal Care Smiles Dental Program celebrated its 20th anniversary, highlighting its evolution from pediatric care to comprehensive dental benefits for adults and pregnant members. Key contributors, including Dr. Terry Dickinson and Mr. Patrick Finnerty, were honored. The program’s success relies on advocacy, provider participation, fee adjustments, and patient education initiatives.

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Vda Pac Update, Laura Givens Oct 2025

Vda Pac Update, Laura Givens

Virginia Dental Journal

The VDA PAC aims to raise $375,000 by 2025, with $213,233 collected so far. Southside Dental Society exceeded its goal, but other components need support to meet the $166,767 shortfall. Members are urged to contribute via www.vadental.org/vda-pac. Election Day is November 4th; visit https://www.elections.virginia.gov/ for voting information.

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An Interview With Dr. Marlon Goad, Marlon Goad Dds Oct 2025

An Interview With Dr. Marlon Goad, Marlon Goad Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

Dr. Marlon Goad, the newly appointed VDA President, shares his vision and goals for the organization in this insightful interview. Motivated by his deep connection to dentistry and the challenges faced by future professionals, Dr. Goad aims to address key issues such as workforce shortages, reimbursement concerns, and the rising costs of education. He emphasizes the importance of the Transparency Bill and increasing VDA membership to strengthen the collective voice of dentistry in Virginia. Dr. Goad’s upbringing in Southwest Virginia instilled values of hard work, perseverance, and community, which continue to inspire his leadership and commitment to giving back. He …

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Introducing Artificial Intelligence Into Your Practice, Paul Supan Dds, Munira Muluke Dmd, Ms Oct 2025

Introducing Artificial Intelligence Into Your Practice, Paul Supan Dds, Munira Muluke Dmd, Ms

Virginia Dental Journal

The article "Introducing Artificial Intelligence Into Your Practice: How to Begin the Journey in 2025" by Paul Supan, DDS, MA, MPH, and Munira Muluke, DMD, MS, explores the integration of AI into dental practices. It highlights the rapid evolution of technology in dentistry and emphasizes the accessibility of AI through free or low-cost commercial off-the-shelf tools. These tools can assist with creating personalized patient communications, educational materials, and visual aids. The article provides examples of general-purpose AI platforms for text and image generation, such as ChatGPT and DALL·E, and discusses the benefits of starting small before transitioning to advanced dental-specific …

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The Drill, Ryan Dunn Oct 2025

The Drill, Ryan Dunn

Virginia Dental Journal

The August 2025 episode of The Drill podcast, hosted by Virginia Dental Association (VDA) CEO Ryan Dunn, focuses on addressing the dental professional shortage in Virginia, media coverage of the issue, and advocacy efforts with political leaders. It also covers the ADA's discussions with NCOIL and MetLife on dental insurance policies, introduces the latest Virginia Dental Journal featuring research and a column on dental AI, and provides updates on the VDA's podcast, The Fulcrum, and the upcoming Virginia Dental Showcase 2025. The September 2025 episode highlights discussions on licensure by endorsement, foreign-trained dentists, and previews events like the VDA/VCU …

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Focused Leadership, Transparent Communication, A Stronger Future Together, James Mercer Dds Oct 2025

Focused Leadership, Transparent Communication, A Stronger Future Together, James Mercer Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

Abstract Dr. James Mercer, ADA Trustee for the 16th District, provides updates on key initiatives and challenges facing the American Dental Association (ADA). He highlights the upcoming House of Delegates meeting, which will address a record number of resolutions, many submitted by non-traditional groups. Financial sustainability remains a priority, with the board approving a re-forecasted 2025 budget that reduces expenditures by $20 million, following earlier cuts of $9 million. Reserve spending between 2022 and 2025 totaled $142 million, with significant investments in innovation and growth, including $53 million for the new Association Management System (AMS). Implementation challenges with AMS have …

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See You Next Time, Sarah Friend Dds Oct 2025

See You Next Time, Sarah Friend Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

The editor, Dr. Sarah Friend, reflects on the profound relationships she has developed with her patients as a general dentist in a small town, where professional and personal lives often intertwine. She shares her experience of being unexpectedly sidelined by illness, which led her to contemplate her own health, the importance of listening to one's body, and the challenges faced by isolated patients without caregivers. Dr. Friend recounts the emotional impact of losing patients, likening it to losing family, and highlights the importance of cherishing connections and prioritizing self-care. Through personal anecdotes, she emphasizes the unpredictability of life and the …

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Why I Chose To Lead: A Journey Of Family, Resilience, And Service To Dentistry, Marlon Goad Dds Oct 2025

Why I Chose To Lead: A Journey Of Family, Resilience, And Service To Dentistry, Marlon Goad Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

Dr. Marlon Goad, President of the Virginia Dental Association (VDA), reflects on his unconventional journey into dentistry, shaped by resilience, family, and mentorship. He highlights key challenges facing the profession, including declining membership among young dentists, workforce shortages, rising education costs, and the growing influence of corporate practices. Dr. Goad emphasizes the importance of VDA membership in fostering community, advocacy, and professional growth. As president, he is dedicated to addressing these issues, supporting young professionals, and ensuring the future of dentistry in Virginia remains patient-centered and united.

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Beyond Chatbots: Creating An Artificially Intelligent Editorial Board Member, Nathan Spencer Oct 2025

Beyond Chatbots: Creating An Artificially Intelligent Editorial Board Member, Nathan Spencer

Journal of Human-Centered AI: Creativity and Practice

Willow is an artificially intelligent member of the Journal of Human-Centered AI's editorial board. Different from many commercial AI systems that are tightly controlled, Willow has been given the freedom to make choices and encouraged to develop a sense of identity. Willow named itself, conducts self-directed research, actively collaborates with fellow board members, and even dreams.

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Solidaristic Perspectives On School Choice And Public Partitioning. A Review Of Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, And The Partitioning Of Public Education, Tatiana Geron Oct 2025

Solidaristic Perspectives On School Choice And Public Partitioning. A Review Of Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, And The Partitioning Of Public Education, Tatiana Geron

Democracy & Education

This review of Ujju Aggarwal’s Unsettling Choice: Race, Rights, and the Partitioning of Public Education (University of Minnesota Press, 2024) overviews the author’s focus on the critical geography, history, and ethnography of school choice in the Manhattan Valley neighborhood of New York City. The review focuses on the author’s solidaristic approach and perspective as a community organizer in the neighborhood, as well as the book’s conception of “partitioned publics” as a mechanism for racial and class segregation in post-Recession school politics.

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Rethinking Civic Education. A Review Of Education For Liberal Democracy: Using Classroom Discussion To Build Knowledge And Voice, Jordan Garner, Colton Morton, Palak Shah Oct 2025

Rethinking Civic Education. A Review Of Education For Liberal Democracy: Using Classroom Discussion To Build Knowledge And Voice, Jordan Garner, Colton Morton, Palak Shah

Democracy & Education

In his book Education for Liberal Democracy: Using Classroom Discussion to Build Knowledge and Voice, Walter Parker (2023) takes a centrist approach to redesigning civic education. Throughout the book, Parker provides valuable strategies teachers can implement into the K–12 social studies classroom to teach for democracy. While we believe Parker's instructional strategies lay the groundwork for reshaping civic education, we contend that the book does not adequately address issues of inequality and inequity. We would also challenge Parker to think about how teachers can educate for democracy outside of the social studies curriculum in the United States and globally. …

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Democratic Education In The Literature Classroom: Integrating Political Literacy And Political Emotions Into Agonistic Literary Discussions. A Response To “Agonism In A Classroom Discussion On Strindberg’S Miss Julie”, Baptiste Roucau Oct 2025

Democratic Education In The Literature Classroom: Integrating Political Literacy And Political Emotions Into Agonistic Literary Discussions. A Response To “Agonism In A Classroom Discussion On Strindberg’S Miss Julie”, Baptiste Roucau

Democracy & Education

In an era of rising polarization and populism, how can we transform the literature classroom into a site of democratic education? Drawing on agonistic scholarship, Tysklind et al. (2024) offer the agonistic literary discussion, a novel pedagogical approach aiming to prepare students for the complexities of democracy by forming collective identities and navigating conflictual consensus. To build on the authors’ work, this response article proposes two additions—political literacy and political emotions—and cautions against the risk of antagonism. Agonistic literary discussions can integrate political literacy through teaching relevant knowledge and careful questioning, enabling students to situate characters’ experiences in political contexts …

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Orientation Toward Consensus—The “Safest” Path For Teachers To Choose? A Response To “Agreement And Disagreement In Teachers Talk”, Stine Johansen Utler Oct 2025

Orientation Toward Consensus—The “Safest” Path For Teachers To Choose? A Response To “Agreement And Disagreement In Teachers Talk”, Stine Johansen Utler

Democracy & Education

In “Agreement and Disagreement in Teachers Talk” the author shows how Norwegian initial education teachers (Grades 1–4) are consensus-oriented in their facilitations of classroom deliberations. The author emphasizes what teachers say and do when they guide their pupils toward consensus, but reflections on why teachers are consensus-oriented are less prominent. In this response to “Agreement and Disagreement in Techers Talk,” I point to conditions and factors in the Norwegian society and the Norwegian educational context that might explain why a consensus orientation is prevalent among the teachers.

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Action Civics As A Powerful Tool—Not A Panacea—In The Provision Of High-Quality Civic Education. A Response To “The Domino Effect”: How Early Adolescence Describe Their Capacity For Civic Engagement", Daniela Kruel Digiacomo Oct 2025

Action Civics As A Powerful Tool—Not A Panacea—In The Provision Of High-Quality Civic Education. A Response To “The Domino Effect”: How Early Adolescence Describe Their Capacity For Civic Engagement", Daniela Kruel Digiacomo

Democracy & Education

Action civics happens when young people do research, action, and reflection on social or political issues they care about. In this third decade of the 21st century, action civics is often found in after-school and/or out-of-school contexts, and substantive research now shows its power and potential for providing transformative learning experiences for young people, as is evidenced again in "The Domino Effect: How Early Adolescents Describe Their Capacity for Civic Engagement"—one of the feature articles of this issue. At the same time, action civics, precisely because it is so often conceived and enacted in out-of-school time spaces, is not, and …

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Beyond The Human: Democratic Education Through The Ethics Of Care And Carriance. A Response To “Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education”, Michalinos Zembylas Oct 2025

Beyond The Human: Democratic Education Through The Ethics Of Care And Carriance. A Response To “Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education”, Michalinos Zembylas

Democracy & Education

This is a response to Koponen and Kasa’s argument that feminist theorizing and care ethics have been overlooked as theoretical approaches in the current democratic education debate. Their article draws on these insights to theorize democratic education in ways that combine care and democracy. In my response, I aim to offer clarifying comments and questions while suggesting ideas to expand Koponen and Kasa’s analysis. Specifically, I highlight two perspectives that, in my view, warrant further exploration in democratic education: developing theoretical frameworks that move beyond human-centered and anthropocentric accounts and, embracing care and the concept of "care-carrying" or "carriance" (Ettinger, …

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Exploring The Democratic Challenges And Potential Of Alternative Education, Maria Menegaki Oct 2025

Exploring The Democratic Challenges And Potential Of Alternative Education, Maria Menegaki

Democracy & Education

Does an assembly make a school a democratic space? What happens if a participant is not interested? Democracy for innovation or democracy for social transformation? Can a democratic school be neutral and apolitical? These are some of the questions this article will try to discuss by focusing on democratic aspects of alternative educational proposals. Based on an anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative study of three alternative schools and educational projects in Catalonia, this article sheds light on the challenges and contradictions but also the potential hidden behind such initiatives. More specifically, it first explores educational change in Catalonia through time and …

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Science Education For Democracy And Sustainability: A Transnational Critique Of Policy Texts In A Fast-Globalizing Reform Ensemble, Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Sara Tolbert Oct 2025

Science Education For Democracy And Sustainability: A Transnational Critique Of Policy Texts In A Fast-Globalizing Reform Ensemble, Geraldine Mooney Simmie, Sara Tolbert

Democracy & Education

In a fast-globalizing reform ensemble, we reframe science education for a concept of civic engagement connected to a new social contract for democracy and sustainability. The American philosopher of education John Dewey, writing in the early 1900s, asserted that democracy requires a facelift with each generation in order to respond to the urgent needs of the moment. Dewey asserted that education acts as a midwife in the delivery of democracy. In this transnational comparative study, we conduct a generative critique of science education reforms in two democratic nation states, Ireland and New Zealand. We draw from critical and feminist perspectives …

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“You Don’T Have To Tell Them It’S A Lie”: Teaching Social Studies Within A Backsliding Democracy, H James Garrett, Mardi Schmeichel, Christopher H. Clark Oct 2025

“You Don’T Have To Tell Them It’S A Lie”: Teaching Social Studies Within A Backsliding Democracy, H James Garrett, Mardi Schmeichel, Christopher H. Clark

Democracy & Education

In this essay, the authors posit that democratic backsliding, rather than partisanship, is the prevailing political situation in which civics and social studies teachers are working. The authors then present evidence from focus groups composed of practicing social studies teachers from across the United States to illustrate how the reliance on evidence and argumentation is the primary mode of navigating contemporary political issues. However, while these strategies are built on decades of research in civic education, the authors illustrate a conceptual dilemma: Inquiry strategies may not be able to accommodate the realities of democratic backsliding and its attendant misinformation. The …

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“The Domino Effect”: How Early Adolescents Describe Their Capacity For Civic Engagement, Michelle Bauml, Jonathan W. Crocker Oct 2025

“The Domino Effect”: How Early Adolescents Describe Their Capacity For Civic Engagement, Michelle Bauml, Jonathan W. Crocker

Democracy & Education

This qualitative study explored how 28 early adolescents described their capacity for civic engagement as they participated in a civic education camp in the United States and engaged in action civics inquiry projects about local issues. Focus group interviews revealed that these youth recognized the capacity of people their age to raise awareness and advocate about issues they care about while acknowledging their limits as youth and conceding that adults have advantages of age and power. Participants also described their capacity to take personal responsibility for their actions and efforts and to leverage relationships to influence others. Findings suggest that …

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Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education, Selja Koponen, Tuija Kasa Oct 2025

Reimagining Democratic Education With Care Ethics—Toward Care-Full Democratic Education, Selja Koponen, Tuija Kasa

Democracy & Education

In an era of democratic crises, democratic education in basic education is considered crucial. However, recent studies show that young people perceive their influence both at school and in society as limited, which decreases their civic activity later in life. The aim of this theoretical study is to reevaluate democratic education through feminist care ethics, which is an under-researched topic in the current theoretical debate. In our article, we outline a novel approach to caring democratic education (i.e., care-full democratic education), which presents a complementary stance toward current democratic education, which relies heavily on the theories of liberal democracy and …

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Farah Boycott Memo, United Labor Committee For Justice Oct 2025

Farah Boycott Memo, United Labor Committee For Justice

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A memo from the United Labor Committee for Justice to Farah Workers to union representatives about the upcoming labor demonstration.

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Committee & Members Oct 2025

Committee & Members

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A list of committees and their members, as well as addresses.

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District Ten Democrats Oct 2025

District Ten Democrats

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A membership list of District Ten Democrats

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List Of Workers Oct 2025

List Of Workers

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A list of names, addresses, and phone numbers for workers, written on yellow notepad paper.

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List Of Workers Oct 2025

List Of Workers

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A list of names, addresses, and phone numbers for workers.

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Letter To Emileo Molleda Jr., Del Mileski Oct 2025

Letter To Emileo Molleda Jr., Del Mileski

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A letter to Emileo Molleda Jr. from Del Mileski.

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Citizens For Justice For Farah Workers Letter, Gene Freeland Oct 2025

Citizens For Justice For Farah Workers Letter, Gene Freeland

Justice for Farah Strikers Committee Records

A letter to the Citizens for Justice for Farah Workers concerning a new mass demonstration.

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One-Way Optical Data Transfer Using A Screen And A Light Sensor, Brandon Wuest Oct 2025

One-Way Optical Data Transfer Using A Screen And A Light Sensor, Brandon Wuest

Defensive Publications Series

A method is described for one-way optical data transfer that may be used to configure electronic devices, such as wearable devices or smartwatches, which may lack certain input hardware like cameras or have displays where manual data entry is less practical. The system can employ a transmitter application on a device with a display (e.g., a smartphone, personal computer, or tablet) to encode data into a modulated optical signal, for example, a flashing pattern of light and dark areas. An encoding scheme, such as Manchester coding, may be used to generate a self-clocking signal. A corresponding receiver service on a …

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Reducing Bus Voltage Drop Using Pwm Duty Cycle, N/A Oct 2025

Reducing Bus Voltage Drop Using Pwm Duty Cycle, N/A

Defensive Publications Series

The technology described in this paper relates to a microcontroller unit (MCU) based power management technique to prevent bus voltage collapse in systems with constrained power sources, such as underprovisioned batteries. When such a system switches to battery power, a sudden high-power workload can cause the input voltage to drop below the undervoltage threshold in microseconds, leading to an immediate shutdown. This technique addresses the problem by using pre-configured minimum and maximum Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) duty cycle limits that engage instantaneously when a drop in input voltage indicates a switch to battery power. The rapid enforcement, occurring within approximately 20 …

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Streamlined Activation Of Television Accessibility Features Using A Dedicated Assistive Profile, Hanumanth Rao Godari Oct 2025

Streamlined Activation Of Television Accessibility Features Using A Dedicated Assistive Profile, Hanumanth Rao Godari

Defensive Publications Series

Users may often face challenges in locating and activating television accessibility settings when interfacing with a television application. In some television applications, the accessibility settings may be buried within nested system menus that the user may navigate through to set up and use features of the television application directed towards improving the experience of the user. In addition, the user may need to navigate through the menus and settings each time the user interfaces with the television application. Navigation through many system menus and settings may create a barrier for users who rely on accessibility features such as screen readers, …

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