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Mapping Injustice Towards Feminist Activism
Get PDFStrategies for crafting feminist activism begin with a conversation, invites and involves the participation of many people, involves artists and creative communicators, and generates action. The essay is a discussion with examples of how to craft feminist activism from dialogue to committed action—to stop injustice and work toward intersectional justice. We begin the dialogue with intersectional theory and then facilitate a group process of visualization using metaphors of entanglement. The concept of intersectionality considers how hegemonic structures intersect to oppress the lives of racially marginalized communities. The goal of the dialogue is to examine the potential consequences of the interaction between multiple forms of subordination. While intersectionality theory helps to reveal the impact of multiple forms of oppression, making a simple analogy to an intersection warrants a reconsideration of how each form of oppression mutually informs the other. An entangled metaphor considers a more complicated rhizomatic relationship with complexly interwoven, twisted and tangled parts of minoritized identities and intersecting inequalities. Building from visualizations of entanglement, we discuss how to craft feminist activism to raise awareness of global responsibility toward social justice and democracy
Strategies for Math Teachers to Help ELLs Succeed
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This capstone project aims to support middle school math teachers and other practitioners who work with English Language Learners. In my school, teachers notice that English Language Learners struggle to get started on most tasks, have a hard time answering word problems and generally do not participate. In this paper, I discuss some of the reasons why general education teachers struggle to successfully teach English Language Learners. My goal is to provide research based ideas and strategies to general education teachers working with ELLs in math classes. I created and will implement a professional development for teachers. It is designed to help teachers with vocabulary acquisition and application, as well as to promote independent work and student participation. In addition, to addressing linguistic and socio-cultural challenges, the PD aims to enhance evaluation and assessment outcomes for ELLs. All teachers can teach English Language Learners but not all are unaware how to teach them in a way that they can learn. I believe that all of these strategies can be used in any classroom.
Keywords: ELLs, math, professional development, language, cultural, assessment challenge
Using Student Generated Data to Promote Conceptual Understanding: A Student Led Approach to Statistics
No full textThis curriculum project offers a complete Statistics unit plan designed for Algebra 1 students. The unit plan consists of twelve statistics lessons, three of which include student-led data collection and analysis projects. Each lesson is designed to incorporate student-generated data to improve student engagement during the lessons and promote conceptual understanding of data sets and data representations. The lessons were originally designed to fit within single 90-minute instruction blocks, except for the three student-led projects which may take more than one 90-minute block to complete. The lessons were developed to align with the New York State Algebra 1 Common Core Learning Standards, which includes a unit of statistics
Jenna Schlick, interviewed by Jessy Blackburn
No full textJenna Schlick attended Oriskany School District outside of Utica, which is a small school, her class consisting of only 53 students. She had previously considered going to beauty school in New York City and purse such a career there, but she didn’t want to miss out on the college experience of a recent high school graduate. She also considered SUNY Delhi for veterinary studies to become a veterinary technician, but changed her mind after interning in that field. Schlick likes the small feel of SUNY Brockport, which reminds her of her high school experience. She is majoring in business administration based on her dad’s recommendation and career, and she is also hoping to add on a minor in marketing
The Effect of Media Coverage of Female Athletes and the Impact on How These Athletes View Their Body
Get PDFResearch indicates that in today’s society media has a powerful effect on the body image of female athletes. The purpose of this synthesis was to review the literature on the effect of media coverage of female athletes and the impact on how these athletes view their body. Results indicate that there is an overall detrimental relationship between the influences of media and the way female athletes view their bodies
Irondequoit Bay Nutrient Levels and Trophic State
Get PDFLong term trends show lower levels of phosphorus in the epilimnion for the past nine years. Determining the amount of phosphorus is important as high levels can result in excessive algae growth known as eutrophication. The successful effort to reduce the amount of wastewater entering the bay resulted in large phosphorus reductions. Watershed contributions from stormwater runoff as well as the loading from internal processes still have the potential to fuel eutrophication. In recent years the bay has met the long term goals for phosphorus concentration and has not experienced large algal blooms
Research-Based Instructional Strategies to Support Newcomers in the Mainstream Classroom
Get PDFAfter Hurricane Maria hit the island of Puerto Rico in September of 2017, the Rochester City School District received an influx of Newcomer students; over 600 students were placed in the District. Teachers at Enrico Fermi School No. 17 shared, by way of survey, that they did not feel comfortable nor adequately prepared to teach these students. When teachers complete a teacher certification program, they are taught many strategies to use in the classroom; however, strategies specific to Newcomers are not included in those teachings. The effects of not having trained and qualified teachers for Newcomers in the mainstream classroom is negative. Newcomers are more likely to drop out of school or be referred to special education.
The researcher created a survey on Teaching Newcomers in the Mainstream Classroom. The survey was given to teachers from Grade Kindergarten through Grade 7 from Enrico Fermi School No. 17 in the Rochester City School District to gauge how comfortable teachers felt with teaching Newcomers in their classrooms. The survey also gave insight to what resources/strategies teachers are currently using as well as strategies of interest. The researcher found that by educating and training teachers of Newcomers, these educators will feel more equipped and prepared when planning lessons and teaching Newcomers in the classroom.
It is the researcher’s recommendation that all educators, not only ENL teachers, of the Rochester City School District be required to take a professional development training on research-based strategies for Newcomers in the mainstream classroom. All educators (support staff, classroom teachers, and administrators) should be informed and equipped with the most effective research-based strategies for Newcomers as well as the available resources specific to Newcomers in order to ensure that these students have an equal opportunity to the education that native-English speakers have
Social Media: How is it Affecting College Students?
Get PDFResearch shows how participation in social media creates issues with self image, instant gratification, low self-esteem, affects relationships and exasperates symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Social media has participants in nearly every age group, race, class, ethnicity, culture and socioeconomic background.
Social networking sites (i.e.: Facebook), microblogging apps (i.e.: Twitter) and content sharing apps (i.e.: YouTube, Snap Chat, Tumblr) have become such an ingrained part of society that people check their phones constantly throughout the day, at work, even while driving.
More than 98 percent of college-aged students use social media, says consumer insight service Experian
Simmons (Gerlich, 2011) . In addition, an annual nationwide survey of college students by UCLA found that 27.2 percent of college students spent more than six hours on social media a week (Kalpidou, 185).https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/research_posters/1034/thumbnail.jp
How Impactful are Recreation Center Offerings on Youth Development?
Get PDFResearch indicates that recreational facilities impact youth development through programming and employee-patron interaction. The purpose of this synthesis project is to review the literature regarding quality programming within recreational facilities and the impact these programs have on youth development. Results indicate that quality facility offerings have an overall impact on youth development