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Emerging From Critique Towards Liberation: A Framework In Leadership Education, Erica R. Wiborg, Amber Manning-Ouellette, Ericka Roland

School of Education Articles

What does liberation look like in leadership learning and education? This article offers examples for (re)imagining leadership education in program design, coordination, and assessment by centering the leadership for liberation framework and other liberatory approaches. The authors offer examples of how these frameworks serve as an entry point for college student liberatory leadership learning.

The Landscape Of Us Elementary Mathematics Teacher Education: Course Requirements For Mathematics Content And Methods, Brette Garner, Jen Munson, Gladys Krause, Claudia Bertolone-Smith, Et Al.

School of Education Articles

The adequate preparation of future teachers of mathematics is critical, requiring sufficient opportunities to develop both pedagogical skill and content knowledge. Yet, despite new recommendations for mathematics teacher preparation, we know little about the landscape of course-based learning opportunities in US elementary teacher education programs. To what extent do US elementary teacher education programs meet the Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics outlined by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) for mathematics content and methods courses? Based on an a priori power analysis, we gathered a random sample of 291 higher education institutions. Within these institutions, we analyzed 736 …

Bye Bye, Bycatch, Derek Jackson

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 7th Grade Life Science

Using critical thinking skills to better understand how conservation engineering can improve sustainable fisheries.

Going Fishing In The Classroom!, Will Shoup

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 4th Grade Life Science and General Science

The student will investigate and understand that organisms, including humans, interact with one another and with nonliving components in the ecosystem. Key ideas include that interrelationships exist in populations, communities, and ecosystems.

The Mystery Of The Oyster: What's In The Bag?, Julia Grenn

Lesson Plans

Grade level: 7th Grade Life Science and Biology

Students will use measurements and graphing to examine and assess how husbandry strategies and business decisions can impact the Eastern Oyster shape.

Hematodinium: A Blue Crab Parasite, Xuqing Chen

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: High School Biology

Students will use monthly survey data to measure percentage of infection, or "prevalence" of Hematodinium in adult and juvenile blue crabs and determine how prevalence changes through seasons.

The Case Of The Missing Penguins!, Claudia Moncada

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 7th Grade Life Science

Students will gather and graph data to examine patterns in Adelie penguin populations in the Western Antarctic Peninsula and determine potential drivers for these patterns.

Cereal Killer: Diagnosing Oyster Diseases Using Pcr, Anna Poslednik

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: High School Biology

Understand the basis of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) by constructing a model of the technique using cereal and pipe cleaners

Who's That Phytoplankton?, Savannah Mapes

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: High School Biology

Students will assess harmful algal bloom diagnosis.

Mapping A Terrapin Town, Anna Caputo

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 7th Grade Life Science and Environmental Science

In small groups, students will explore diamondback terrapin habitat requirements, conservation, and how land use planning can affect their population.

Watching Seagrass Breathe, Alyson Hall

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: 7th Grade / High School Life Science and Biology

Students will investigate how seagrasses act as primary producers in the ocean, why we care about them, and how scientists measure their rates of primary production and respiration.

How Can Communities Be Engaged In Climate Change?, Yao Wang, Qiong Wang

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: Advanced High School, AP, IB

Students will use materials to practice how stakeholders engage in climate change adaptation planning to make decisions for Lynnhaven (the second largest watershed) in the City of Virginia Beach. Their Lynnhaven adaptation strategy project will demonstrate that they understand what community engagement for climate change adaptation planning is and how to conduct five phases of community engagement.

Where Land Meets The Sea, Kayla Cahoon

Lesson Plans

Grade Level: High School Earth Science and Oceanography

Students will use graphs of sediment cores to determine how coast lines change.

Students With Gifts And Talents: A Resource Guide, Cty Ireland, Dublin City University, Center For Gifted Education, William & Mary

Center for Gifted Education Reports

Excerpt from publication: "The format for this book is very simple and we wanted to make it as user-friendly as possible. For too long in the field of gifted education there has been an assumption that high ability students are a homogeneous group. Hopefully this guide will help to dispel this myth once and for all and we can celebrate the different types of gifted students, the different strategies that can help them and we can embrace the heterogeneity of the group.

Each section of the book will cover advice for students, parents, teachers and policy makers. To emphasise the …

Maximizing Small-Group Reading Instruction, Kristin Conradi Smith, Steven J. Amendum, Tamara W. Williams

School of Education Articles

In this article, the authors revisit the common practice of small-group reading instruction. They challenge the idea of grouping readers based on text levels and instead review supplemental intervention group research that suggests targeted skill practice as a more optimal use of time in small groups. They then present the ABCs—a focus on assessment, basics & books, and clarity in communication—as the central principles that should guide how we instruct reading in small groups.

Troubling The Niceness Of Social Change In Leadership Education, Erica R. Wiborg

Arts & Sciences Articles

This article troubles a culture of niceness that upholds racism, whiteness, and other forms of oppression, as well as challenges the simplistic application of social change in leadership education. Leadership educators have several responsibilities for challenging ideologies, practices, and discourses that secure whiteness when teaching about leadership for social change. The current article begins with situating the relationship of whiteness and niceness, then offers liberatory considerations for troubling niceness in leadership education. Considerations for why leadership educators and students, based on their social identities and lived experiences, might resist addressing social inequality, power, inclusion, and equity in leadership are discussed. …

Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers

Arts & Sciences Articles

Excerpt from the article: "The William & Mary was the second university in the U.S. after Brown University to establish a funded, institutional examination of its dark history of complicity with slavery and Jim Crow segregation. After resolutions from the Student Assembly and Faculty Assembly, the Board of Visitors in 2009 established the Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, named after Lemon, a man enslaved by the College..."

Writing At The Bray School: Part 2, Terry L. Meyers

Arts & Sciences Articles

Excerpt: "In the last several years the contested question of whether Mrs. Wager taught writing at the Williamsburg Bray School has come up anew in several venues. In this follow-up to my earlier piece, “Writing at the Bray School,” I examine these recent developments..."

Irish Gifted Students: Self, Social, And Academic Explorations (Summary Report), Jennifer R. Cross, Tracy L. Cross, Colm O'Reilly, Center For Gifted Education, William & Mary

Center for Gifted Education Reports

In 2011, Dr. Colm O’Reilly, the Director of the Irish Centre for Talented Youth (CTYI), and Dr. Tracy L. Cross, the Executive Director of the William & Mary Center for Gifted Education (CFGE) developed a partnership to conduct research with or on behalf of gifted students in Ireland. Over the next ten years, numerous studies were conducted to learn about these students and about gifted education in the country via educators’ and parents’ beliefs and experiences. Two reports have been published on the former: Gifted Education in Ireland: Educators’ Beliefs and Practices and Gifted Education in Ireland: Parents’ Beliefs and …

Irish Gifted Students: Self, Social, And Academic Explorations (Full Report), Jennifer R. Cross, Tracy L. Cross, Colm O'Reilly, Center For Gifted Education, William & Mary

Center for Gifted Education Reports

In 2011, Dr. Colm O’Reilly, the Director of the Irish Centre for Talented Youth (CTYI), and Dr. Tracy L. Cross, the Executive Director of the William & Mary Center for Gifted Education (CFGE) developed a partnership to conduct research with or on behalf of gifted students in Ireland. Over the next ten years, numerous studies were conducted to learn about these students and about gifted education in the country via educators’ and parents’ beliefs and experiences. Two reports have been published on the former: Gifted Education in Ireland: Educators’ Beliefs and Practices and Gifted Education in Ireland: Parents’ Beliefs and …

Emotion, Place, And Practice: Exploring The Interplay In Children's Engagement In Ecologists' Sampling Practices, Kathryn Lanouette

School of Education Articles

In science education, there has been a sustained focus on supporting the emergence of science practices in K–12 and field-based settings. Recent work has elevated the integral role of emotion in sparking and sustaining such disciplinary practices, deepening the field's understanding of what is entailed in “doing” science. Yet even as we gain this richer understanding of practice, less attention has been given to the places where practice emerges. These places play a critical role in the co-emergence of emotion and practice, and while separate strands of research have elevated emotion and practice or, alternately, place and practice, rarely has …

Exploring How Secondary Stem Teachers And Undergraduate Mentors Adapt Digital Technologies To Promote Culturally Relevant Education During Covid-19, Meredith W. Kier, Lindy L. Johnson

School of Education Articles

The COVID-19 global pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to K-16 educators, including the closing of educational agencies and the abrupt transition to online teaching and learning. Educators sought to adapt in-person learning activities to teach in remote and hybrid online settings. This study explores how a partnership between middle and high school teachers in an urban school district and undergraduate STEM mentors of color leveraged digital tools and collaborative pedagogies to teach science, technology, and engineering during a global pandemic. We used a qualitative multi-case study to describe three cases of teachers and undergraduate mentors. We then offer a cross-case analysis …

Shifting Sands: Coastal Dunes In Motion, Elizabeth Davis

Reports

Grades: 5+ Subjects: General Science, Geology, Environmental Science

Students will use “before & after” dune profile graphics to determine how the dune has changed and hypothesize why this change occurred.

Find The Bullseye: Targeting Conservation In The Candy Darter, Jemelyn Grace P. Baldisimo

Reports

Grade: 7th grade, ability to scale up to high school Biology Subject: Life Science

Determining a species’ risk of extinction using available data and spreading awareness for conservation of an endemic species.

From The Subsurface To The Sky: Tracking Groundwater With Drones, Stephanie Wilson

Reports

Grades: High School Subjects: Earth Science | Physical Science

Determining the inputs of nitrogen to coastal waters from drone based radiometric temperature data.

Topics covered:

• Technology and radiometric imagery
• Drones in science
• Groundwater
• Nutrients / pollutants
• Water cycle/ Watersheds

Gelatinous Zooplankton In Biological Systems; Case Study: Salpa Thompsoni In The Western Antarctic Peninsula, Maya Thomas

Reports

Grades: 7th Subjects: Life Science

Teach about the importance of gelatinous zooplankton and examine their role in food webs, the biological pump, and the carbon cycle.

The Seagrass Is Greener On The Other Side, Lauren Alvaro

Reports

Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology

Students will collect data about animals in a seagrass meadow, learn how seagrass density affects species abundance and diversity, and calculate a biodiversity index.

Searching For Sea Scallops: The Role Of Science In Fisheries Management, Kaitlyn Clark

Reports

Grades: 6-8 Subjects: Life Science | Biology

Students will collect data on populations of sea scallops and then use those data to provide recommendations for sustainably managing the fishery in the next fishing year

Shark Sanctuaries: Habitat And Climate Change, Kaitlyn O'Brien

Reports

Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology

Utilize data collected from scientific surveys to explore the abiotic niche of multiple coastal shark species, and evaluate suitable habitats under differing climate change conditions.

How Resilient Is It? The Resilience Quotient Zoning Ordinance, Qiong Wang, Yao Wang

Reports

Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Environmental Science, Earth Science, Oceanography

The Resilience Quotient (RQ) system uses zoning ordinance to address coastal resilience development issues in the city of Norfolk, Virginia. This lesson plan goes through key resilience concepts and its strategies that can promote flood risk reduction, stormwater management, and energy resilience. The activity provides several scenarios to help students understand, simulate, visualize, discuss, and practice how the Resilience Quotient works for coastal developments in the city.