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Combating Chronic Absenteeism in Rural Maine Elementary Schools
Get PDFThis quantitative study was designed to determine if there is a correlation between chronic absenteeism and student achievement and if increased teacher communication with positive messages around attendance would affect the rate of chronic absenteeism in rural elementary schools. Four schools were analyzed looking at attendance and achievement data while implementing a new attendance protocol that increased teacher communication and the spread of positive messaging in regards to attendance. Findings indicate there is evidence that those students who were chronically absent struggled academically to meet local and state benchmarks. Preliminary findings also indicate that the implementation of the new attendance protocol improved attendance. In conclusion, making small changes in attendance protocols that add nothing to existing budgets appears to be an effective way to combat the national attendance crisis
Multiplication Fact Fluency and Multiple Intelligences in a Third Grade Classroom
Get PDFThe purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to examine if teaching students their multiplication facts in a way that utilized their multiple intelligence strength would be a more effective way of teaching students their multiplication facts than having students learn their multiplication facts through rote memorization only. All four groups who received a teaching of multiplication facts intervention made gains in learning their multiplication facts. The three multiple intelligence groups did make more gains in learning more facts, than the one group who only learned their facts through rote memorization. However, the rote memorization group was able to give more facts automatically in the post assessment when compared with the other three multiple intelligence groups
Piper Alexander/Cortney Benjamin Interview
No full textInterview with Cortney Benjamin Assistant Professor of Spanish
Tanzania Travel Course Video
No full textA short video highlighting many of the fun and interesting events that took place over the Tanzania travel course this winter
Field Relations, Geochemistry, and Geochronology of the Rocks at Perkins Point, Castine, Maine
No full textNorthwest of Castine, Maine is the coastline known as Perkins Point, which is home to about 500 meters of bedrock exposure. Previous mapping projects of Penobscot Bay indicate a discrepancy in rock type for this area, and therefore the origin of the rocks is unclear. Preliminary observations suggest that these rocks are mostly volcanic. The goal of this project is to determine the field relations, geochronology, and geochemistry to conclude the true nature of these rocks and ultimately create a geological map
Watercolors of Modest Mussorgsky\u27s Pictures at an Exhibition
Get PDFWatercolor paintings of my impressions of Modest Mussorgsky\u27s Pictures at an Exhibition, movements: 2.The Gnome, 13. Catacombs - With the Dead in a Dead Language, and 14. Baba Yaga
In the Shadow of the Annamese Mountains
No full textA Note from the Author I was first introduced to the idea of political poetry on October 18, 1970, about midnight, in an all-night Harvard Square corner bookstore. A few months before that encounter I had returned from the war in Viet Nam. To say that I was confused and angry is an understatement. I was also somewhat lost. Then on that fateful night I found this wonderful collection of poems by Denise Levertov that captured her journey to North Viet Nam as a peace activist. This was the first serious discussion I had read from and about my war. And true to what Robert Bly considers effective political poetry, Levertov used the personal to open up the universal. I was captured, and unlike my response to military service, I did not want to escape. Instead, I sought out more of her work and other poets and, eventually, began to write my own poems....https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/1089/thumbnail.jp
Differences in leaf physiology among juvenile pines and oaks following high-severity wildfire in an Arizona Sky Island Mountain range
No full textRecent increases in wildfire severity are converting pine-oak (Pinus-Quercus) woodland to oak shrubland in many sites in the southwestern United States. A key mechanism underlying this transition is the vigorous resprouting capacity of oaks compared to low regeneration rates in pines following wildfire. Differences among species in leaf physiological characteristics may also contribute to such vegetation type conversions, especially in the context of recent increased regional aridity. To that end, we evaluated variation in leaf functional traits in post-fire recruits five years after the 2011 Horseshoe Two in the Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, USA. We measured a suite of functional traits in two pines (Pinus engelmannii and P. leiophylla) and two oaks (Quercus hypoleucoides and Q. arizonica), including leaf gas exchange, leaf pigment concentrations, leaf spectral reflectance, and wood xylem δ13C, δ18O isotopes, and integrated water use efficiency (iWUE). The four study species displayed a range of plant functional traits tied to desiccation tolerance. P. engelmannii seedling recruits presented invariably low maximum photosynthetic rate (Amax), stomatal conductance (gs), and transpiration (E), and high relative leaf water content during the peak of the May-June drought, a response strongly indicative of a desiccation-avoidant leaf that prioritizes water conservation over carbon fixation in arid conditions. In contrast, resprouts of both oaks displayed leaf desiccation tolerance, with high levels of gs and E and low relative leaf water content. Gas exchange in P. leiophylla resprouts was more similar to the oaks, except for relative water content, which was similar to that of P. engelmannii. Compared to the other two species, P. engelmannii and Q. hypoleucoides exhibited significantly higher δ13C, δ18O and iWUE values—a pattern that appears to have arisen from different mechanisms in the two species. In desiccation-avoidant P. engelmannii, low instantaneous gs and high δ18O suggested that low stomatal conductance rather than high photosynthetic rates led to high iWUE, whereas lower δ18O and very high pigment concentrations in Q. hypoleucoides suggest a more important role for Amax in this species. Neither fire severity nor physiography influenced the physiological responses in any of the four species, suggesting that the expression of resprout and seedling functional traits is fixed. These results raise the possibility that differences in leaf physiological characteristics contribute to the regeneration success of some oak species and the poor seedling establishment of obligate seeder pines, such as P. engelmannii, after high-severity wildfire in the American Southwest
Emily and Sarah Evoke a Gnomus
No full textModest Mussorgsky\u27s Pictures at an Exhibition, 1. The Gnome, performed by Professor Steven Pane, on piano. Photograph by Emily Everitt and painting by Sarah Otley
Electoral Reforms in Maine with James Melcher
No full textIan and James Melcher discuss why Maine and Nebraska insist on distributing their electoral votes differently than the other 48 states, along with the rest of Maine\u27s other electoral quirks