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Session B-5: Mentor Matching Engine, Jackie Naughton, Carl Heine Feb 2015

Session B-5: Mentor Matching Engine, Jackie Naughton, Carl Heine

Professional Learning Day

Participants will tour the Mentor Matching Engine (MME), a robust platform available to Illinois high school students for conducting research with assistance from online mentors. IMSA, in partnership with the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition and Northwestern University, administer MME as part of the state's R&D Learning Exchange. In addition, participants will discover powerful models of personalized learning and the outstanding results.

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Session B-4: Foods Of The Future, Carmela Minaya, Aziza Darwish, Heather Richardson Feb 2015

Session B-4: Foods Of The Future, Carmela Minaya, Aziza Darwish, Heather Richardson

Professional Learning Day

Teachers will learn the simple science behind the most recent culinary rage, Molecular Gastronomy. They will have a cost effective example to bring back into their classroom with students.

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Session B-3: Mathematical Games, Puzzles, And Diversions, Steven M. Condie Feb 2015

Session B-3: Mathematical Games, Puzzles, And Diversions, Steven M. Condie

Professional Learning Day

Delve into the exciting world of math through games, puzzles and other sources! Participants shall try their luck and test their skill at these diversions. Participants will leave this session with a wealth of mathematical activities appropriate for students of all ages.

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Session B-2: The “Roll” Of Statistics In Modeling - It All Adds Up, Richard Stalmack, Janice Krouse Feb 2015

Session B-2: The “Roll” Of Statistics In Modeling - It All Adds Up, Richard Stalmack, Janice Krouse

Professional Learning Day

The common core practice standards ask us to teach students to propose mathematical models and test their viability. Participants will do an experiment, collect data and use technological tools to combine modeling, analysis and basic statistics. Participants should bring a laptop, if possible; otherwise, bring a graphing calculator.

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Session B-1: Pipelines And Oil Spills!, Patrick Young Feb 2015

Session B-1: Pipelines And Oil Spills!, Patrick Young

Professional Learning Day

Don’t miss this hands-on approach to middle school math. Participants will construct an actual pipeline from inexpensive materials and record evidence of leakage. They will then conduct an experiment and create a model relating liquid volume and spill area. They will apply their model to determine how much liquid leaked from their pipeline.

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Session B-3: Modern Germany: Social Responsibility & Environmental Sustainability, Rachel Sykora Feb 2015

Session B-3: Modern Germany: Social Responsibility & Environmental Sustainability, Rachel Sykora

Professional Learning Day

This session will present the political, social, and economic philosophies that have allowed modern Germany to emerge as a global leader in environmental sustainability. This subject raises numerous ethical questions with real-world applications that are of high interest to students in history, global studies, and human geography classrooms. Topics of discussion include the Deutsche Bank model of corporate responsibility, “green growth” economic initiatives, and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Participants will leave with practical classroom activities utilizing thought-based inquiry, primary source documents, and case study examples that help inspire classroom conversations beyond the traditional context of the Holocaust and World …

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Session B-1: Teaching Russian Political History: From Czars To General Secretaries To Oligarchs, Diane Haleas Hines Feb 2015

Session B-1: Teaching Russian Political History: From Czars To General Secretaries To Oligarchs, Diane Haleas Hines

Professional Learning Day

Participants in this session will be offered ways to teach Russian history that makes connections between historical experience and political culture (values, attitudes, beliefs, and expectations that citizens hold about their political system). This political culture has directly impacted current politics in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union and helps to explain current developments in Russian politics, both domestic and international. The session will incorporate background information as well as lesson activities for the classroom.

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Session B-2: Much Ado About Trousers: Exploring Intercultural Contact Through Artifacts, Kitty Lam Feb 2015

Session B-2: Much Ado About Trousers: Exploring Intercultural Contact Through Artifacts, Kitty Lam

Professional Learning Day

Material objects are fascinating sources for investigating intercultural contact in the ancient world. This session demonstrates how to use a pair of ornamental trousers excavated from Xinjiang, China to generate student discussion on the nature of cross-cultural contact in the ancient Silk Road era.

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Session A-2: From Polynomial To Rational Functions: Flip!, Ruth Dover Feb 2015

Session A-2: From Polynomial To Rational Functions: Flip!, Ruth Dover

Professional Learning Day

Ah HA! Making the connection between polynomial functions, rational functions and using reciprocals! Join us to flip, not flop, with trig for your classroom.

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Session C-3: Epidemiology, Don Dosch, Crystal Randall Feb 2015

Session C-3: Epidemiology, Don Dosch, Crystal Randall

Professional Learning Day

Epidemiology, the study of factors influencing the spread of communicable disease, has become a broadly discussed topic given the recent Ebola virus outbreak in western Africa. Participants in this session will work in the lab to model epidemiology and examine the results through a simple ELISA assay. We will discuss how to use data to identify original patients. Further, we will look at some in-class activities that highlight some well-established case studies in epidemiology (NGSS ESS3.A and LS2.C).

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Session A-4: “Ain’T No Thing, Chicken Wing”, Carmela Minaya, Aziza Darwish, Heather Richardson Feb 2015

Session A-4: “Ain’T No Thing, Chicken Wing”, Carmela Minaya, Aziza Darwish, Heather Richardson

Professional Learning Day

Participating teachers will simulate a deep cut on a chicken wing and suture it using similar techniques used in emergency situations. The chicken wing anatomy will be compared to the anatomy of a human arm. The session will provide teachers with the opportunity to introduce a low cost dissection activity into the classroom in a dynamic fashion.

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Session A-1: Implementing Common Core In Middle School Math, Karen Togliatti Feb 2015

Session A-1: Implementing Common Core In Middle School Math, Karen Togliatti

Professional Learning Day

This session will focus on implementing Common Core Middle-School Mathematics Standards using student-centered activities. Participants will receive three hands-on activities (one each at grades six, seven, and eight) to take back to their classrooms.

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Session C-2: Problem-Based Mathematics: You Reap What You Sow, Nicole Ross, Lindsey Herlehy Feb 2015

Session C-2: Problem-Based Mathematics: You Reap What You Sow, Nicole Ross, Lindsey Herlehy

Professional Learning Day

Approach problem-based mathematics through a historical perspective! Join us to learn a fun, hands-on approach to examining the science behind crop rotation systems originally implemented during the Medieval Period. This activity requires students to mathematically evaluate the efficiency of a crop rotation system, strategically complete an integers-based crop puzzle, and evaluate crop yield and profit through data analysis. This activity integrates a variety of middle school mathematics concepts.

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Session C-1: Equilibrium, Deb Scarano, Anita White Feb 2015

Session C-1: Equilibrium, Deb Scarano, Anita White

Professional Learning Day

Find your balance in this hands-on lab session which will allow teachers to try out several simple lab activities that will enable students to better understand equilibrium.

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Session A-6: Alternative Energy, Mark Carlson, Peter Clancy Feb 2015

Session A-6: Alternative Energy, Mark Carlson, Peter Clancy

Professional Learning Day

We will describe how our newly-revised, month-long alternative energy unit in Engineering addresses the 4 NGSS standards. We will map the activities in our IMSA schedule to a traditional high school bell schedule. These activities address not only performance goals and the underlying scientific principles of power generation but also process skills relating to surveying technology, prioritizing criteria, and assessing societal impact. We will reflect on our first round of offering this unit and suggest modifications for future implementations.

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Session A-3: Energy Conservation, Brooke Schmidt, Eric Hawker Feb 2015

Session A-3: Energy Conservation, Brooke Schmidt, Eric Hawker

Professional Learning Day

This session will focus on the content and different activities that you can do with your students to meet the Next Generation Physical Science Standard 3: Energy. The focus will be on definitions of energy, conservation of energy, and the relationship between energy and forces. The content is appropriate for both middle and high school science students.

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Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading And The Consequences Of Those Encounters, George Haldaman Feb 2015

Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading And The Consequences Of Those Encounters, George Haldaman

Professional Learning Day

Using an interactive website at indianoceanhistory.org, we will examine how history can be more hands on for a time period and region students know very little about. This lesson can be used to explore and compare different time periods in history and are great for comparison and contrast as well as the continuity and change over time essays. The workshop will explore how global economies were developed and the consequences of those encounters.

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Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid Feb 2015

Session A-1: Interpreting Cold War Origins: Past, Present, Future, Lee Eysturlid

Professional Learning Day

This session will enable attendees to teach the origins of the Cold War for the United States (and world) along with the evolution of American opinion on the topic. This fragmentation of historical opinion (left, right, center) will help attendees see the many possibilities of the topic. Teachers will leave ready to teach the topic.

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New Research Shows Latino Households Face Challenges In Homebuyer Market, Public Affairs, Roger Williams University Feb 2015

New Research Shows Latino Households Face Challenges In Homebuyer Market, Public Affairs, Roger Williams University

Featured News Story

RWU policy groups HousingWorks RI and Latino Policy Institute release infographic that reveals affordability gap for Latino households in Rhode Island.

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In An Inequitable Election Process, How To Regain The 'Equal Vote', Public Affairs, Roger Williams University Feb 2015

In An Inequitable Election Process, How To Regain The 'Equal Vote', Public Affairs, Roger Williams University

Featured News Story

Attorney and activist Lawrence Lessig calls upon college students to fight for change to make campaign-funding a fair process.

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Marine Biology Faculty From Rwu Among 2015 Stac Grant Awardees, Public Affairs, Roger Williams University Feb 2015

Marine Biology Faculty From Rwu Among 2015 Stac Grant Awardees, Public Affairs, Roger Williams University

Featured News Story

Roxanna Smolowitz, Dale Leavitt and David Taylor will work on multi-disciplinary teams taking on research challenges related to climate variability and the state's marine environment.

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Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell Feb 2015

Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell

Education's Histories

Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 423 pp. $30.00.

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What's Grad School All About?, Michele C. Weigle Feb 2015

What's Grad School All About?, Michele C. Weigle

Computer Science Presentations

PDF of a powerpoint presentation from the Capital region Celebration of Women in Computing (CAPWIC) Conference in Harrisonburg, Virginia, February 27, 2015. Also available on Slideshare.

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Council On Academic Deans Feb 2015

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council On Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding tuition waivers, Harlaxton, retreat, excused absences, field trips, capital plan, awards and space allocation.

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Uc Berkeley Researcher To Present Uab School Of Optometry Visiting Scholar Seminar, Jim Bakken Feb 2015

Uc Berkeley Researcher To Present Uab School Of Optometry Visiting Scholar Seminar, Jim Bakken

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

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February 27, 2015 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate Feb 2015

February 27, 2015 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate February 27, 2015 Approved Minutes

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Asrc Standards, Abdool Aziz Feb 2015

Asrc Standards, Abdool Aziz

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.

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2015-February-27-Pianist Robin Spielberg To Share Her Experiences With The Power Of Music, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Feb 2015

2015-February-27-Pianist Robin Spielberg To Share Her Experiences With The Power Of Music, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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2015-February-27-Etsu Reports On Perceptions Of Obesity Prevention Programs, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Feb 2015

2015-February-27-Etsu Reports On Perceptions Of Obesity Prevention Programs, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

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2015-February-27-Etsu To Present Tony Award-Winning Play 'Proof', University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University Feb 2015

2015-February-27-Etsu To Present Tony Award-Winning Play 'Proof', University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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