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The Invisible Labor of Managing Executive Dysfunction at Work
Get PDFAll library and archives work places a significant demand on our executive functions, a core set of cognitive controls in the brain. When they’re running smoothly, you may not even notice they’re there, but when they aren’t, even minor tasks seem impossible. Executive dysfunction is strongly correlated with ADHD and autism, as well as depression, anxiety, brain trauma, and numerous other conditions. Executive dysfunction is uniquely disabling in a complex work environment like a library, but managing it is itself a job, one which must be done on top of the other job. This talk is about that secret second job: what it is, how it connects us, and why it should be integrated into our regular jobs
Review of U.S. Congressional Politics, Hate Crimes, Potential for Violence, and Sex-Gender Differences Research
No full textThe 2023 International Conference on Hate Studies, held at Spokane Community College, featured the theme of The Challenges of Hate in the 21st Century. The panel Review of U.S. Congressional Politics, Hate Crimes, Potential for Violence, and Sex-Gender Differences Research included the following papers: Online Hate Speech: An Exploratory Analysis Across Major Social Networking Platforms, Daniel Suárez Alonso The Invisible Fire: How a U.S. Record in Hate Crime Was Missed & Ways to Address the Problem, Brian Levin The State of Hate Index II, Robert Tyne
Spokane Beat the Heat: Correlations of Urban Heat with Race and Income in Spokane, Washington
Get PDFThe Gonzaga Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment led a community effort to better understand how extreme heat affects different neighborhoods and different individuals by constructing maps of urban heat island and connecting them to demographic factors through a correlation analysis. This research reveals that extreme heat events affect not only the unhoused, but also many thousands of people across large segments of the Spokane community. Not all regions or demographics in Spokane are equally affected by extreme heat. Differences in green space and the built environment mean that some people are more likely to be in danger during future extreme heat events
The Dialogic Classroom: Holding the Door Open for Hope
Get PDFSchools are an essential institution for providing education and direction for children and youth. A key learning is how to engage in civil dialogue intertwined with hope for the future. At the heart of civil dialogue in a classroom are large topics referred to as “public moral [stories] … moral in the sense that [they are] founded on ultimate questions—of life and death, of how persons should be treated, preferred patterns of living” (Fisher, 1994, p. 173). These existential stories and their emergent questions are eloquent and can excite and engage even reluctant participants who otherwise might find themselves concerned with whether their answers are right or wrong. In the dialogic classroom, teachers create life-giving safe spaces and containers where students can be vulnerable, take risks, and change their minds as they listen and reflect mindfully. The container takes the form of a circle, like sitting around a campfire where each participant has a unique perspective based on their relationship with the fire. Participants understand that there are things outside their unique relationship and experience with the stories that they cannot fully know. Questions arrive without pre-formed answers and generate new questions in dialogue’s multiple languages and voices. Each voice brings a different sensibility to the conversations. Dialogue includes community and communion in the form of koinonia, where participants trust one another without knowing each other fully
A Practitioner Approach to Modeling and Teaching Servant-Leadership
Get PDFServant-leadership is increasingly being taught in colleges, universities, and elsewhere. Approaches to teaching vary, but often involve a combination of reading, writing, modeling and practicing it. As college professors, working primarily with graduate students, we have learned over the years that teaching servant-leadership includes a strong effort at modeling it for students. In this essay, we share our approaches in how we structure servant-leadership courses. Some elements include Community, Relevant Learning, Ethically-Driven, Coaching/Mentoring Focus, Humor, Growth over Product, and Mutual Respect of Intellectual Capital. The selection and structure of key learning materials is also a crucial aspect of teaching and modeling servant-leadership in courses. The inclusion of key texts by Robert K. Greenleaf, such as Servant-Leadership, and On Becoming a Servant-Leader provide an important foundation grounding, as does Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse (the book that inspired Robert Greenleaf in coining the term, servant-leader. The practice of silence, as an aid to becoming a better listener, has also proven to be most helpful. The servant-leader classroom is so much more than creating a culture of ‘let’s all get along’. Diving into the literature on the topic, building examples and assignments into the course structure and content, and then modeling the principles of the discipline helps to facilitate a culture of care. Servant-leadership is certainly easier to talk about than to consistently do. But it’s more than worth it to try—as we open the minds and hearts of our students (and ourselves) to the lifestyle of serving
The Generational Journey of Racial Reconciliation: A Call for Tender Hearts and Continuing Conversation Through a Servant-First Life of Leadership
Get PDFIn the polarized context of today’s society ideological differences on how to address issues of race funnel the angst from riot-stricken streets into school board meetings, sour social media posts, and cancel both careers and friendships. This article examines the critical critique of what has been called third wave anti-racism contrasting this critique with foundational tenants of critical race theory. Servant-leadership is presented as a preferred alternative leading to continuing conversation with tender hearts, which choose to remember the abuses of the past while seeking renewed reconciliation for the sake of future generations
Self-Forgiveness, Servant-Leadership, and Religious Volunteers in a Juvenile Incarceration Setting
Get PDFEngaging volunteers with religious backgrounds in a juvenile incarceration setting leads to encountering white saviorism (Raypole, 2021, para. 4) and white evangelicalism as expressed through the theology of these volunteers and their racial demographic. Additionally, white evangelicalism used the language and values of Christian nationalism (Boston, 2021). Servant-leadership is an antidote to white Christian nationalism and can balance the inequalities of relationships between volunteer and incarcerated youth. Specifically, self-forgiveness as a practice of servant-leadership and of incarcerated youth can lead to healing from white Christian nationalism and healing from a criminal background
NOW 2023-10 October
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NOW 2023-07 July
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for July 2023.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID
NOW 2023-06 June
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for June 2023.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID