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Building Community For Black Women Student Affairs Graduate Students By Creating A Mentor Sister Circle Program, Taijah Monay Claybrook
Building Community For Black Women Student Affairs Graduate Students By Creating A Mentor Sister Circle Program, Taijah Monay Claybrook
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When studying the gendered and racialized experiences of Black women in higher education, research often focuses solely on faculty members as opposed to student affairs professionals. However, lack of support for Black women student affairs professionals leads to many developing racial battle fatigue. This project explores the effects of the intersection of oppressive systems on Black women student affairs professionals' journey through graduate school to the professional work setting. The implementation of a mentor sister circle program supported by higher education administration is proposed to provide this demographic with needed support during graduate school. The designed mentor program features an …
Second Language Learning In Elementary Years: Cognitive And Social-Emotional Benefits, Brooke Elenbaas
Second Language Learning In Elementary Years: Cognitive And Social-Emotional Benefits, Brooke Elenbaas
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All through the world bilingualism is a normal part of school, work, and culture creating cognitive and social-emotional benefits (Fan, 2016; Marian & Shook, 2012). The United States is a unique educational system, distinctly geared towards monolinguals, specifically English, especially in the elementary schools. The absence of second language learning at the elementary grades is a gap districts should seek to fill as research shows brain development positively effecting cognitive and social-emotional learning during this early stage of development (Abutalebi et al., 2011). This project is an in-service designed for elementary school districts pursuing a better understanding of why second …