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Parent & Family Newsletter, August 2025
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Parent & Family Newsletter, September 2025
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Bridging Worlds, Leading Libraries My Global Latin Way: Exploring Cross Cultural Leadership in a Connected World
Get PDFThis lecture presented at Texas Woman’s University in January 2025 examines the evolution of cross-cultural leadership in libraries through an innovative theoretical framework that synthesizes Goleman\u27s emotional intelligence model (Goleman, 1995), Morin\u27s theories (Morin, 2001), and Olarongbe\u27s cross-cultural leadership paradigm (Olarongbe, 2023). Through a mixed-methods approach combining autoethnographic analysis with comparative case studies across French, Chilean, and American library systems, the study describes the emergence of my Latin Way leadership model mainly characterized by adaptability and community-centeredness and identifies three key dimensions of effective cross-cultural library leadership: the critical role of cultural competency in institutional transformations; the integration of traditional excellence with technological innovation; and the need for a new theoretical framework for cross-cultural library leadership able to emphasize on collective wisdom and cultural preservation. The present research contributes to library science literature by proposing hybrid leadership approaches, offering evidence-based strategies for library administrators navigating increasingly multicultural contexts. The findings suggest that effective library leadership in a globalized world requires both local cultural rootedness and global perspective, challenging traditional leadership paradigms while proposing new frameworks for cross-cultural understanding in library management
Fostering Value Cocreation Using an Agency-Style Client Project in Marketing Education
Get PDFExperiential learning is key to any discipline, and in marketing it is of particular interest to foster mastery and a sense of professionalism through a client project in the classroom. In the marketing education literature, the value of client projects is well documented. Building on the value cocreation (VCC) stream of research and project-based learning, we propose that a multicourse, full-service “agency-style” structure allows classes to realize VCC beyond the traditional client-based project. We define agency-style projects as those in which teams from different courses are assigned unique, interrelated tasks and ultimately offer a comprehensive recommendation for the client’s multidimensional marketing challenges. We teamed four marketing courses to document the process as we facilitated creation of amplified value to all parties. This agency-style approach has seldom been implemented and documented, and our study contributes to the discipline by suggesting unique ways to bring a holistic understanding of marketing to students and provide synergy for meaningful experiential learning. We compare this agency-style approach to the traditional client-based project which we define as a single class working for the same client independently of other marketing courses. The research also builds a theoretical framework illustrating the process by which value can be cocreated
Debiasing Recency: Evidence from Individual Investor Stock Sales
Get PDFIn the first large-sample study of recency bias mitigation, we show that individual investors dispose of relatively longer-held stocks in December tax-loss sales compared to other months. We argue that before engaging in December tax-loss sales, investors review all or most of their losing positions instead of focusing on the most recently acquired stocks. Thus, reviewing relevant information mitigates recency bias in a large, diverse sample of investors. This behavior is consistent across investor, stock, and portfolio characteristics; it is found even in accounts with only long-term capital losses
Library Data Storytelling and Information Wisdom
Get PDFWhat can you tell about your library data as a story? Learn how to bring data stories to life for library advocacy of all types, from sustaining the library to transforming its work. Participants will learn about ongoing research identifying classic library stories told to persuade decision-makers as part of the Data Storytelling Toolkit for Libraries project (IMLS). Tools academic libraries can use include: Strategies to understand data storytelling uses for academic libraries Reach different kinds of audiences such as students, administrators, and funders Adapt narrative structures to communicate information and emotion at the same time
Dr. Kate McDowell’s interdisciplinary work examines how storytelling plays a vital role in humanizing data analysis and communication. She focuses on storytelling as information research, social justice storytelling, and how the history of library storytelling can enhance contemporary data storytelling. Her article Storytelling wisdom: Story, information, and DIKW theorizes storytelling as a fundamental information form. She leads the nationally-funded Data Storytelling Toolkit for Librarians project to equip libraries with narrative tools for data-informed advocacy, which has been used by over 1,000 librarians in over 50 countries so far. Her storytelling teaching was internationally celebrated with the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award in 2022
Community Immersion for Homegrown Teachers: Learning “There are Never Just Negatives…”
Get PDFThe authors describe an initiative between an urban public school district, a city college, and a college of education to establish a pipeline of teachers of color from and for the school district. The qualitative research occurred during the teacher candidates’ participation in a community immersion program. Centering the teacher candidates’ experiences and reactions to the community immersion highlights their identity, commitment to teaching, and the importance of exposing homegrown teachers to communities beyond their own. The authors discuss community-based curriculum in the preparation of teachers and consider how the experiences of teacher candidates of color impact program implementation
The Effect of Blended Training on AAC Strategy Use by Pre-Service Educational Professionals
Get PDFThis study explored the feasibility of a blended training program model on the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) strategies by pre-service education speech pathology students. The training incorporated Read-Ask-Answer (RAA) and naturalistic Show-Wait-Respond (SWR) techniques, aiming to increase participants’ competence in AAC strategy application. Four graduate students participated in a single-case A-B research design. Following five baseline sessions, participants completed a one-hour asynchronous online training based on a modified ImPAACT model (Kent-Walsh & Binger, 2013; Kent-Walsh & McNaughton, 2005). The training focused on RAA and SWR strategies and included video demonstrations, written practice opportunities, and reflection activities. Following the training, each participant completed five role-playing practice sessions, during which feedback was provided to enhance strategy implementation. Primary outcome was participants\u27 correct use of combined RAA and SWR strategies per two-page book reading spread, with secondary outcomes tracking the total number of modeling and waiting/responding strategies used. Two participants showed immediate improvement in applying all AAC strategies, reaching high accuracy levels. Whereas the other two demonstrated gradual improvement across sessions. The blended training model established a functional relationship between training and AAC strategy use for half of the participants, with consistent increases in SWR techniques across all participants. The blended training model, combining asynchronous instruction with guided role-play and feedback, effectively enhanced specific AAC skills among pre-service educators. These results suggest the value of including blended AAC training modules into pre-service curricula to improve educational professionals’ readiness to support children using AAC. Future research should explore expanded sample sizes and skill retention
Personalized Learning in a Pediatric Speech Sound Disorders Seminar
Get PDFThis paper highlights the utility of personalized learning (PL) embedded into an on-campus graduate seminar focused on pediatric speech sound disorders (PSSD). The example showcases six key PL features described from an autoethnographic lens. These include: (a) context-specific positionality viewpoints (i.e., instructor, student, discipline, and university); (b) PL-adapted course learning outcomes; and (c) PL-style instructional resources, (i.e., diverse and efficient elicitation study questions, intentionally introspective in-class activities, and a menu of student- and discipline-centric topics conveyed in varied instructional formats). Evidence of students’ PSSD accomplishments are shared via personalized proof portfolios, and links to entry level national certification benchmarks. Closing thoughts identify multiple presumptive factors and forward-facing steps that characterize PL’s relevance for the PSSD seminar context
“THE New Force”: The Rhetoric behind Nana Kwame Bediako\u27s Masked Campaign
Get PDFThis study examines Nana Kwame Bediako’s unconventional masked campaign in Ghana’s 2024 presidential election using Norman Fairclough’s three- dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The research analyzes how Bediako employed anonymity through a masked persona on billboards before revealing his identity as a strategic political innovation. The study examines two key moments: Bediako’s unveiling speech after the government of Ghana cancelled his planned convention event, and his subsequent televised interview with JoyNews. The analysis reveals how the mask functioned as a complex symbol that generated public curiosity, challenged Ghana’s NPP- NDC political duopoly, and connected pan-African identity. Through the textual, discursive practice and social practice dimensions, the research demonstrates how Bediako constructed a distinctive political identity that blended entrepreneurial success with collective aspirations. While his initial masked campaign failed to translate into electoral success, it represents significant innovation in Ghanaian political communication by reversing conventional patterns of establishing identity before policy. The study contributes to understanding how rhetorical strategies can challenge established political structures in contemporary African democracies