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What are STEM Indicators and Why Do They Matter for Practitioners?
Get PDFThe article reports on the features of the National Research Council\u27s 14 \emph{indicators\/} for monitoring progress in K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and shares recent work analyzing the many ways state and national databases categorize and label information. The report offers insights about developing and using shared data standards. Cross-region and cross-state comparisons of opportunities and outcomes for students, teachers, and administrators are important for monitoring equitable progress and can drive policy and professional decisions about K-12 STEM education.  
An Amazing, Space Filling, Non-regular Tetrahedron: As Simple as √1, √2, √3
Get PDFExploring the shapes in this paper can increase student understanding of basic concepts of space geometry and allow teachers and students to consider ideas such as these:
How can cubes be examined and used to create other examples of polyhedra that fill space?
How can relationships from plane geometry such as the Pythagorean theorem, be used to find lengths and shapes to create nets to build space-filling polyhedra?
How can models of these space-filling shapes be constructed and used to build intriguing, hinged 3-dimensional puzzles
Sustained Mentoring of Students of Color: A Testimonio in Two Voices
Get PDFUsing a testimonio (Beverley, 1989) in two voices, we discuss the mentoring practices in one Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership at a large urban public university in California through the eyes of one mentee, Author1, and her mentor, Author2. We discuss our relative roles, how we learned from each other, and the practices that supported Author1’s success through the lens of shared authority (Frisch, 2003; Wong, 2016), a term used to describe the interviewee-interviewer relationship in oral histories. We borrow the term shared authority as it embodies “the cultivation of trust, the development of collaborative relationships, and shared decision-making” (High, 2009, p. 13) that became part of our shared story as Author1 navigated her doctoral studies through graduation and beyond. The following testimonio describes how we both approached this relationship and how it evolved over the course of Author1’s Ed.D. journey and beyond. 
Letter from the Editor
Get PDFLetter from the Editor of the Journal of Transformative Leadership and Policy Studies, Porfirio Loeza, Ph.D
African Americans and Unions in Los Angeles
Get PDFThis paper highlights the racism that permeated Labor Unions across Los Angeles while determining the methods that African American men and women employed in order to successfully lobby not only the unions themselves but the United States government in cases where the locals were unwilling to integrate. I came upon this topic after a story I had heard at family gatherings about an ancestor of mine, William Schneiderman, who was a union leader, outspoken communist, and whose similarities to Harry Bridges called my attention to Los Angeles unions in my new hometown of San Pedro. My focus on race relations within L.A. unions which eventually led me to focus on African Americans and Los Angeles organized labor given their more vocal activism in the city, more so than any other ethnic group. Black workers fought the unions they came to be a part of for their rights as union members and faced belligerent racism constantly. In the course of my research, I located archival records from numerous repositories across L.A., including the Los Angeles Times Historical Archive, the Long Beach Library Historical Archives, the Random Lengths News Archives, the National Archives and Records Administration’s ????les, and the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union’s Special Collections and Archives
Indicators of Change: Exploring Trends in Racial, Socioeconomic, and Demographic Characteristics Across California Counties: California Association of Human Resources Organizations (CAHRO) & California State University Channel Islands Sociology Program
No full textOne of CAHRO’s stated goals is to “build the capacity of organizations addressing human relations issues through information sharing, training, and technical assistance”. This series of reports, a collaboration between CAHRO and CSU Channel Islands Sociology students, contributes to this goal by providing community stakeholders access to empirical results related to various forms of demographic, social, and economic changes taking place across select California counties from 2000 to 2016. Using data from the 2000 Census and 2012-2016 American Community Survey (ACS), we document trends taking place across four broad categories: racial and ethnic change, income inequality, housing inequality, and population aging. The goal is that CAHRO and its network affiliates can use these descriptive portraits to gain a better understanding of contemporary changes in their respective counties and identify particular areas of need. This series includes reports for the following counties:
· Alameda
· Orange
· San Diego
· Santa Clara
· Kern
· Riverside
· San Francisco
· Ventura
· Los Angeles
· San Bernardino
· San Mateo
 
CSU Channel Islands Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: Member Satisfaction Survey Report, 2011
No full textThe research was conducted with and on behalf of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at CSU Channel Islands to identify and measure levels of satisfaction among members (students). It is based on a concurrent survey of both current and former members of OLLI. Of the total surveys we collected (N = 208), 152 were completed by current members and 56 by former members, during the last two weeks of March 2011. Findings are presented in the following areas: member demographics; member characteristics; preferences regarding class offerings; member satisfaction; and member preferences regarding social events
Camarillo Certified Farmers Market Patron Survey Report: A service-learning research project conducted by CSUCI Sociology capstone students for Camarillo Hospice
No full textResearch was conducted as a service-learning project by Sociology students from California State University, Channel Islands, for the benefit of Camarillo Hospice (which sponsors the Camarillo Certified Farmers Market). Analyses are based on a sample of 162 market patrons completing questionnaires during the first two weekends in March. Findings include data regarding patron demographics; patterns of patronage; satisfactions and preferences; and patrons’ awareness regarding Camarillo Hospice
