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Use of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Benefitting Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Elementary Struggling Readers
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone project
EDUC 3680
Capstone Seminar
Professor name: Dr. Kristen Weeks Neal
This essay investigates the application of culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) in teaching the culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) struggling readers in elementary grades. The need for early reading intervention has been identified and a literature review on both CLD struggling readers and CRP is presented. The reading intervention models such as Response To Intervention (RTI) and Reading Rescue (RES) are reviewed. CRP strategies such as balanced instruction, engaging reading activities, using multiethnic children’s literature, employing student voice and choice, responsive feedback, scaffolding, and, collaborative learning are discussed. Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) program is analyzed to support the reading process of the elementary CLD students. Implications and a plan of action are also provided.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
An Empirical Analysis of Noncompetition Clauses and Other Restrictive Postemployment Covenants
No full textarticle published in law reviewEmployment contracts for most employees are not publicly available, leaving researchers to speculate on whether they contain post-employment restrictions on employee mobility, and if so, what those provisions look like. Using a large sample of publicly available CEO employment contracts, we are able to examine these noncompetition covenants, including post-employment covenants not to compete (“CNCs” or “noncompetes”), non-solicitation agreements (“NSAs”), and non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”). What we find confirms some long-held assumptions about restrictive covenants, but also uncovers some surprises.
We begin by discussing why employers use restrictive covenants and examining how the courts have treated them. We then analyze an extensive sample of CEO employment contracts drawn from a large random sample of 500 S&P 1500 companies. We find that 80% of these employment contracts contain CNCs, often with a broad geographic scope, and that these generally last only one to two years. Similarly, we find that NSAs routinely appear in these contracts, barring solicitation of the firm’s employees and customers or clients. We demonstrate that NDAs are prevalent and prohibit the CEOs from disclosing unspecified “confidential information.” In addition, we note that there is a strong “California effect,” whereby firms from that state are less likely to put CNCs in employment contracts.
Our research also uncovers several previously undocumented trends. First, we see a robust trend in these contracts of more and more restrictive covenants appearing over time and with greatly expanded enforcement rights for the firm. Second, we find clear path dependence for these clauses, with a prior CNC being a convincing predictor of their use in future employment contracts. Third, longer-term contracts are more likely to have CNC clauses than short-term contracts, most probably because the firm has more confidence in making investments in CEOs that are committed to staying for longer periods. We argue that this shows that for some firms the risk of harm from a departing executive may simply be more acute than with other firms
Can Art Integration Transform Social Studies for English Language Learners?
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectThis paper explores the potential outcomes and benefits for English Language Learners in secondary social studies classrooms with the integration of art as part of instruction. It discusses the needs and characteristics of the ELL population that continues to grow in America and analyzes how these needs might differ in a content area classroom like social studies. Expectations, disciplinary literacy, and academic vocabulary in social studies classes is examined and then reexamined with the integration of art in order to explore how this changes both the curriculum and assessment in social studies. Then these changes are evaluated on how they can lead to improved disciplinary literacy, knowledge, and skills for English Language Learners. Authentic tasks and conversations are included in the discussion of how art integration changes the types of instruction and assessment that would occur in these classrooms and how these types of activities would address the needs of ELLs of all levels in social studies classrooms and even in other content areas such as science as well. Implications extend beyond the social studies classroom as practice with these higher order and more refined thinking skills are important in other content areas, college, and careers.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein on Spinoza's Critique of Religion and Its Heirs
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, theological librarian at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Vanderbilt Professor Idit Dobbs-Weinstein about her book Spinoza's Critique of Religion and Its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, Adorno
The Villain in All of Us: A Short Story by M. E. Omori
No full textFinal creative project for Eng 199: Foundations of Literary Study; Fall 2014. Short story is accompanied by a reflection paper
The Voice of Conscience: Civil Rights, Post Civil Rights, and the Future Freedom Struggle
No full textConference poster and video from The Voice of Conscience conference. Includes video files for each conference session. The conference was held on November 9, 2013, and was presented by The Vanderbilt Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and the Vanderbilt Divinity School.Divinity Schoo
Capstone ESL Portfolio
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectDepartment of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Opening Hidden Dores
No full textFinal project for ENGL 277 Asian American Literature; Spring 2015 --Stranger in a Home Land: Asian American Literature and the Mechanisms of Alienation.Recordings accompanied by reflection paper. See project recordings at https://soundcloud.com/openinghiddendore
“Coming ‘Home’: Repatriation in the Bouches-du-Rhône, 1962-1970"
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, 2015. Awarded Highest Honors and The Dewey Grantham Award for best thesis.Department of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
Writing the Temple
No full textThis thesis approaches Infinite Jest's revision of Postmodernism and various features of millennial America, including drugs and rehabilitation, as a scriptural undertaking, best understood through the lens of the Qur'an. The proposition suggests the novel as the literary creation of a community based on shared rituals and referents, both within the AA of the text and the experience of readers without.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc