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Sjsu Erfa News, Winter 2015, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

Emeritus and Retired Faculty Association (ERFA) Newsletter

Volume 29, Issue 2

Disrupting The “Norm” With Collaborative Strategic Reading, Alison G. Boardman, Brooke A. Moore Ph.D., Karla R. Scornavacco

Advanced Education Programs Faculty Publications

Using a case study of a seventh-grade language arts classroom, the authors describe an evidence-based approach to reading comprehension instruction, collaborative strategic reading, which supports all learners by changing the nature of learning and participation.

Historical Writing, Speaking, And Listening Using Informational Texts In Elementary Curricula, John Bickford, Dylan Dilley, Valerie Metz

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national initiatives have accentuated the significance of distinct instructional procedures and content. The (re)emphasis includes a strong focus on informational texts and diverse literacies, including writing, speaking, and listening. In short, history and social studies content will likely have a more prominent position within English/reading curricula. Beginning in the elementary grades, the required cognitive tasks foster historical thinking in age-appropriate ways. Students are to evaluate multiple texts representing diverse perspectives of the same event or era. Teachers, however, are not provided with practical curricular guides. To guide elementary educators, this research scrutinizes potential curricular supplements and proffers content …

Examining The Historical Representation Of The Holocaust Within Trade Books, John Bickford, Lieren Schuette, Cynthia Rich

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national education initiatives provide American students with opportunities to engage in close readings of complex texts from diverse perspectives as they actively construct complicated understandings as they explore complex texts. Opportunities for interdisciplinary units emerge as the role of non-fiction in English/language arts and informational texts in history/social studies increases dramatically. Trade books are a logical curricular link between these two curricula. The initiatives, however, do not prescribe specific curricular material so teachers rely on their own discretion when selecting available trade books. Scholarship indicates that historical misrepresentations emerge within trade books to varying degrees, yet only a …

Historical Thinking, Reading, And Writing About The World’S Newest Nation, South Sudan, John Bickford, Molly Bickford

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national education initiatives have significantly increased expectations of students’ non-fiction reading and writing. These initiatives provide the space for potential interdisciplinary units in English/language arts and social studies/history centered on content area reading and writing. To do so, teachers must locate age-appropriate, historically representative curricular materials and implement discipline-specific writing prompts. To guide elementary teachers’ instruction, we select a novel, underused topic: the birth of the Republic of South Sudan. Age-appropriate children’s trade books are coupled with diverse informational texts—oral histories, current event news articles, and artwork—to extend the trade books’ narratives into the realm of current events. …

History Literacy And Visual Informational Texts: Scrutinizing Photographs Beyond Their Borders, John Bickford, Molly Bickford

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national initiatives prescribe, among other things, increases in students’ reading of informational texts and uses of diverse literacies. History educators must purposefully integrate informational texts with literacy strategies that facilitate historical thinking. Students are to analyze and scrutinize, not simply read or view. This paper refines previously suggested photograph analysis methods to consider a photographer’s influence both within and beyond the photograph’s borders. Our modification centers on the diverse, and hitherto unexplored, ways in which the photographer influences the viewer’s understanding of the photograph and the historical event that is captured. We offer informational texts and discipline-appropriate methods …

Examining The Historical Representation Of The Holocaust Within Trade Books, John H. Bickford Iii, Lieren Schuette, Cynthia W. Rich

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national education initiatives provide American students with opportunities to engage in close readings of complex texts from diverse perspectives as they actively construct complicated understandings as they explore complex texts. Opportunities for interdisciplinary units emerge as the role of non-fiction in English/language arts and informational texts in history/social studies increases dramatically. Trade books are a logical curricular link between these two curricula. The initiatives, however, do not prescribe specific curricular material so teachers rely on their own discretion when selecting available trade books. Scholarship indicates that historical misrepresentations emerge within trade books to varying degrees, yet only a …

Using History-Based Trade Books As Catalysts For Historical Writing, Speaking, And Listening In Elementary Curricula, John Bickford, Dylan Dilley, Valerie Metz

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national initiatives have aligned to compel change in elementary classroom curricula and instructional practice (Council of Chief State School Officers [CCSSO], 2012; National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers [NGA & CCSSO], 2010; Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers [PARCC], 2012). An increased focus on informational texts and content area literacy are two significant changes intended to both facilitate and integrate historical thinking and historical content. For a subject that has struggled to maintain relevancy in elementary curricula, the social studies has a new, stronger position (Center on …

Bachelor Of Science - Secondary English Education Degree Curriculum Sheet | 2015-2016 Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Undergraduate Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

2015-2016 Operating Budget, Morehead State University. Budget & Financial Planning Office.

Morehead State University Operating Budgets Archive

2015-2016 Operating Budget of Morehead State University.

Reflection: Research By Design: Design-Based Research And The Higher Degree Research Student, Shannon Kennedy-Clark

Education Papers and Journal Articles

One of my first thoughts upon being asked to revisit this article (Kennedy-Clark, 2013) was to reflect upon how much research has been done on design-based research as a methodology. So, in this response, I will draw upon some of the main ideas that are coming from recent studies and consider this in the context of Higher Degree Research (HDR). When I was first introduced to design-based research, it was the methodological approach being used in a grant-funded research project at the Centre for Computer Supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo Lab) at the University of Sydney, Australia, where we were …

Endoglin Potentiates Nitric Oxide Synthesis To Enhance Definitive Hematopoiesis, R Nasrallah, K Knezevic, T Thai, S Thomas, B Gottgens, G Lacaud, V Kouskoff, J Pimanda

Education Papers and Journal Articles

During embryonic development, hematopoietic cells develop by a process of endothelial-to hematopoietic transition of a specialized population of endothelial cells. These hemogenic endothelium (HE) cells in turn develop from a primitive population of FLK1+ mesodermal cells. Endoglin (ENG) is an accessory TGF-β receptor that is enriched on the surface of endothelial and hematopoietic stem cells and is also required for the normal development of hemogenic precursors. However, the functional role of ENG during the transition of FLK1+ Mesoderm to hematopoietic cells is ill defined. To address this we used amurine embryonic stem cell model that has been shown to mirror …

Scrutinizing And Supplementing Children’S Trade Books About Child Labor, John Bickford, Cynthia Rich

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national initiatives place an increased emphasis on both students’ exposure to diverse texts and teachers’ integration of English/language arts and history/social studies. The intent is for students to critically examine diverse accounts and perspectives of the same historical event or era. Critical examination can be accomplished through teachers’ purposeful juxtaposition of age-appropriate, engaging trade books and relevant informational texts, such as primary source materials. To guide interested elementary and middle level teachers, researchers can evaluate trade books for historical representation and suggest divergent or competing narratives that compel students to scrutinize diverse perspectives. Researchers can locate germane primary …

Understanding Immigrant Children From Muslim Backgrounds: Issues And Challenges, Shamah Md-Yunus

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

Immigrant children from Muslim communities come from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds, speaking 60 different languages. Some of their religious beliefs, values, and practices created issues and challenges for teachers of these children. This article provides basic information about Muslim and Islamic practices, issues, and challenges Muslim immigrant children face in new country and in the school and offers some suggestions for teachers on how to understand Muslim immigrants.

English Department Newsletter 2015, English Department, University Of Southern Maine

Department of English Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Research Week 2015, Linda Gardiner, David Owerbach

Office of Research Institutional Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Building Community-Engagement Infrastructure At Warp Speed: Leveraging Enterprise Data And Partnerships, Valerie Holton, Kathleen Shaw

Division of Community Engagement Resources

This was presented at the pre-conference workshop on November 16, 2015 at the annual meeting of IARSLCE in Boston, Massachusetts.

Representation By Design: Mining The Source, Kris Heintz Nelson

Higher Education Resources

This unit is a hybrid, combining art history, studio instruction, and visual culture and has been interwoven into a freshman foundations drawing course where students are taught observational skills, use of media and process, and introduced to the creative processes of generating ideas and developing personal inquiry. The inquiry is intended to guide students to question dominant assumptions regarding representation and how artists engage in visual research.

Maximising Student Retention In The Tu4dublin: Lessons To Be Learned From The Early College High School Initiative In The U.S., Gerard Stockil

Stream 6: Global University

Student retention is a key metric for the TUD (Technological University of Dublin), the first new University in 21st century Ireland. Failure to improve preparedness for some students at TUD will limit improved retention as supported by NELS88 and recent ESRI studies. An AIR ( American Institute for Research ) Impact Study review of the US based Early College High School Initiative (ECHSI) provides convincing evidence that credit based activities shared between colleges, universities, high schools, local government and local communities is working well and improves both access and retention, especially in disadvantaged areas. A TUD Irish version of ECHSI …

Bachelor Of Science - Secondary Biology Education Degree Curriculum Sheet | 2015-2016 Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Undergraduate Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Degree Curriculum Sheet | 2015-2016 Catalog Bachelor Of Arts - English, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice Undergraduate Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Using History-Based Trade Books As Catalysts For Historical Writing, Speaking, And Listening In Elementary Curricula, John H. Bickford Iii, Dylan Dilley, Valerie Metz

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

State and national initiatives have aligned to compel change in elementary classroom curricula and instructional practice (Council of Chief State School Officers [CCSSO], 2012; National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers [NGA & CCSSO], 2010; Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers [PARCC], 2012). An increased focus on informational texts and content area literacy are two significant changes intended to both facilitate and integrate historical thinking and historical content. For a subject that has struggled to maintain relevancy in elementary curricula, the social studies has a new, stronger position (Center on …

University Update - January 27, 2015, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Fall Applications
• Human Resources Policy
• Higher Learning Commission Site Visit
• Board of Trustees Meeting
• IT Banner Migration Update
• Women in Philanthropy Summit
• Graduate School News

University Update - March 27, 2015, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Alternative Spring Break
• Enrollment Management
• Diversity and Inclusion
• CCPD Advisory Board
• Academic Affairs

University Update - May 26, 2016, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Shirley Scott, Class of '70 update
• Memorial Service Announcement
• Academic Affairs
• Business Affairs
• Student Affairs
• Enrollment Management
• Institutional Advancement

University Update - June 26, 2015, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Academic Affairs
• Business Affairs
• Enrollment Management
• Human Resources and Title IX Training
• Institutional Advancement
• Student Affairs

University Update - November 24, 2015, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Academic Affairs
• Enrollment Management
• IT Services
• Institutional Advancement
• Alumni Relations Update
• Donor Recognition
• Marketing/Communications Update
• Student Affairs

Co-Planning Among Science And Special Education Teachers: How Do Different Conceptual Lenses Help To Make Sense Of The Process?, Lauren H. Swanson, Julie A. Bianchini

Child Development

In this study, we investigated the process of teacher co-planning. We examined two teams of high school science and special education teachers brought together to coplan inclusive, inquiry-oriented science units as part of a professional development effort. We used three conceptual lenses to help make sense of this process: (1) characteristics of collaboration, (2) small group interactions, and (3) community discourse. Using these lenses individually and collectively, we identified strengths and limitations in teachers’ coplanning efforts. A strength was that all teachers, irrespective of discipline, shared ideas and helped make decisions about the content and activities included in unit and …

02. Business, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.

05. Information Operations Management, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

No abstract provided.