Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons^™

Helping All Herons - A School Based Mental Health Team Initiative, Kiersten H. Morgan, Erin Thrift, Teri Hendrix, Shannon Murray

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Our school system has experienced an increase in the number of students with significant mental health related issues. Interactions with these students were occuring on a crisis by crisis basis. Through a series of trial and error we developed Helping All Herons - A School Based Mental Health Team initiative. The team has regular contact with students, parents, outside counseling agencies and staffings to ensure that the needs of the students are being met. This team encourages a more proactive approach to student mental health compared to a reactive one.

Sjsu Erfa Board Minutes, February 5, 2024, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

SJSU ERFA Minutes

SJSU ERFA Executive Board Minutes

February 5, 2024

Overcoming The Barriers To Teaching Teamwork To Undergraduates In Stem, Gregory R. Goldsmith, Miranda L. Aiken, Hector M. Camarillo-Abad, Kamal Diki, Daniel L. Gardner, Mario Stipčić, Javier F. Espeleta

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

There is widespread recognition that undergraduate students in the life sciences must learn how to work in teams. However, instructors who wish to incorporate teamwork into their classrooms rarely have formal training in how to teach teamwork. This is further complicated by the application of synonymous and often ambiguous terminology regarding teamwork that is found in literature spread among many different disciplines. There are significant barriers for instructors wishing to identify and implement best practices. We synthesize key concepts in teamwork by considering the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) necessary for success, the pedagogies and curricula for teaching those KSAs, …

Supporting Justice-Impacted Students: Recommendations For Elgin Community College, Ginger M. Reynolds, Emily Rusca, Dania Ibrahim

Reports, Analyses, and other Publications

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Mindfulness: The Missing Link In Education, Ashley L. Baer

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Were you asked to pay attention or behave in school? As educators, we must stop expecting focus and self-regulation, and instead we must teach it. Learn how in this experiential session to connect and regulate students using the breathing ball, games, breath, and movement. Let’s practice!

Engaging Teacher-Student Relationships With All Students, Jess Teal

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Positive teacher-student relationships are essential for a safe classroom that promotes academic achievement and social/emotional development for all children. Teachers need specific practices and resources to support them in establishing positive teacher-student relationships with all their students. All students deserve a consistent adult connection and to call school a safe place to learn and grow.

How To Keep Youth Out Of Trafficking, Taylor Baierlein

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

There are more children in slavery today, more than any other time in history because of how lucrative and fast-growing the human trafficking industry has become. Many people do not realize that this is happening in their own backyards. I will be raising awareness, teaching preventative strategies, and giving tools to support the youth in your life.

Unshackling Our Youth Through Love And Mutual Recognition: Notes From An Undergraduate Class On School Discipline Inspired By Ta-Nehisi Coates And Bell Hooks, Gene Fellner, Mark Comesañas, Tahjuan Ferrell

Publications and Research

This research essay challenges educators to embrace mutual recognition when interacting with students. Our data are the words of the young people who participated with us in one particular undergraduate class on school discipline at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States in the fall of 2022. Tahjuan, who had been our student in the 7th grade in 2011, co-taught the class with us. In writing this essay and in teaching the class, we were inspired by a short passage fromTa-Nehisi Coates about the shackling young people of color endure and another, by bell hooks, that proposes …

Humor And School Culture In Special Education Schools, Saied Hussein Bishara

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

Recently there have been discussions about the importance of incorporating humor, particularly in subjects such as mathematics, languages and more. The aim of integrating humor into the educational context stems from the need to mitigate the learning atmosphere that is seen as serious and boring, especially in special education schools. Therefore, the aim of the current research is to study the relationship between the integration of humor in teaching and learning and school culture in special education schools. Humor can have a positive impact on the school, as it stimulates students' interest and memory, and leads to interaction based on …

The Math Of Ranked Choice Voting, Julie Dowling

Professional Learning Day

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Sphero Heros: Exploring Robotic Programming With Sphero Bots, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

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Wet Spaghetti Or Its Reciprocal? Let’S Be Rational!, Janice Krouse

Professional Learning Day

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Can I Pick Your Brain? Exploratory Brain Dissection, Nicole Ross, Jessica Amacher, Desiree Klimek

Professional Learning Day

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Arthroscopy Using Stem: Biomedical Engineering, David Hernandez

Professional Learning Day

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(Virtual) Radians: Units Are Important & Why The Unit Circle Is Not, Matthew Mccutcheon

Professional Learning Day

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Little Changes, Big Impact: Integrating Evolution In Science And Ela, Nicole Ross, Lassandra Walker

Professional Learning Day

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Legendary Lessons: How To Enhance Your Instruction Through Storytelling, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

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“It's The Commonwealth's Attempt To Censor . . . What We Teach”: Anti-Lgbtqia2s+ Educational Policy Influences On Rural Secondary Ela Teacher Practices, Josh Thompson, Clint Whitten, Karin Kaerwer

Virginia English Journal

The shift in political landscape in Virginia from former Democratic Governor Ralph Northam to current Republican Governor Glen Youngkin influenced educational policies in the commonwealth. Waving the banner of parental rights, the Youngkin administration began targeting LGBTQIA2S+ students and educators through legislation and policies such as SB 656 and Model Policies on Ensuring Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools. To understand the influence on rural school districts, this study asked how rural secondary English Language Arts educators understand and respond to these anti-LGBTQIA2S+ policies as well as the ways in which those educators …

First Order Kinetics Activity, Joe Golab

Professional Learning Day

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Probability With K-Pop Idols: Bts! An Introduction To Probability Using The Traditional Korean Game 윷놀이 (Yut Nori), Brian Trainor

Professional Learning Day

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Make And Take Speaker, Anastasia Perry, Brooke Schmidt

Professional Learning Day

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Latex > Equation Editor, Evan Brummet, Lingyi Meng

Professional Learning Day

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The Science Within Art, Joyce Symoniak

Professional Learning Day

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A Hands-On Activity To Introduce Quantum Mechanics, Eric Hawker

Professional Learning Day

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How To Lie With Statistics, Peter Dong

Professional Learning Day

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Common Mistakes In Pre-Algebra And Algebra, Paul Rummelhoff

Professional Learning Day

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What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Best Teaching Practices, Elaine Wu

Professional Learning Day

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Curve Ahead: Civil Engineering, David Hernandez

Professional Learning Day

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An Axiomatic Approach To Integration, Dr. Anderson Trimm

Professional Learning Day

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Citizen Science - Students Contributing To Research In Ai And Astrophysics, Patrick Young

Professional Learning Day

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