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HST 103: U.S. History through Native Perspectives, Since Time Immemorial to 19th Century
No full textFostering Creativity for Positive Mental Health in Middle and High School Students: A Principal's Role
No full textIn the context of evolving employment landscapes driven by technological advancements, this capstone explores the intersection of creativity, mental health, and well-being among middle and high school students. The study examines strategies that principals can adopt to cultivate a creative culture in schools and aims to enhance positive mental health and well-being outcomes. The literature review highlights the need for students to develop creative skills and attitudes to navigate an uncertain future successfully. The research questions focus on identifying challenges and opportunities in fostering creativity, exploring effective strategies for principals, and examining the influences of creative learning environments on student mental health. The significance of the study lies in its potential to positively impact student engagement, educational experiences, and overall well-being. Fostering creativity can result in students developing problem-solving skills, critical thinking, and innovative approaches to challenges, enhancing their adaptability in a rapidly changing world. The study contributes to a better understanding of the interplay among leadership practices, creativity, and student well-being in educational settings. The scope of the study encompasses research on the positive effects of creativity on student mental health, as well as strategies for principals to promote creativity within a context that considers various stakeholders. The findings are expected to provide valuable insights for educators, principals, and policymakers aiming to enhance student creativity, well-being, and preparation for the future
Improving Reading Fluency of a Group of Bilingual Students in First Grade: A Target Action Research Study
No full textThis study is a target action research study. The participants of this study are three bilingual students in a first-grade classroom. A gap in the words per minute count was observed in these students compared to that of their peers. Reading fluency tests were conducted as pre-assessments each Monday and the correct word read per minute (WPM) was recorded. Instructional intervention such as parental involvement and use of visuals to teach vocabulary were implemented. The effects of the intervention were evaluated across participant's each week for four weeks. Each Friday, reading tests were conducted as post-assessments and progress was determined based on the increase in correct words per minute count (CWPM) and students' ease in initiating responses for three comprehension questions. This study found that the interventions played a significant role in enhancing reading fluency demonstrated by an increase in CWPM each week for all four weeks in all three students
MBA Sales Education: A Causal-Comparative Study to Measure Program Effectiveness Via Job Placement Rates
No full textThere is a shortage of sales education programs that develop sales-trained graduates with the business skills required to succeed in the sales profession today. More than 50% of U.S. college graduates will work in sales (Sales Education Foundation, 2023c), yet fewer than 4% of more than 4,800 U.S. institutions offer sales programs at the undergraduate or graduate levels (Spiller et al., 2020). The purpose of this causal-comparative quantitative study was to identify the difference, if any, between job placement rates of MBA students who graduated from sales education programs, compared with their undergraduate sales-educated peers, who socialized into selling careers in the United States over the last 5 years. Salesforce socialization theory provided the key theoretical framework for this research. Two Mann-Whitney U tests measured complementary perspectives for analyzing the primary and secondary data; one compared 75 to 610 job placement rates, and the other compared 134 to 476 job placement rates. The primary instrumentation included a survey, administered as a convenience sample of the population, to 35 top universities offering MBA graduate-level sales programs. Secondary sources of information were gathered from 175 top universities offering undergraduate-level sales programs. Results were statistically significant and suggested sales education programs are more effective at the MBA graduate level than at the undergraduate level as measured via job placement rates. Recommendations for future action and further research are also discussed. Practical benefits of this quantitative study were to advance awareness of sales education programs up to a graduate-level focus, support more colleges and universities to adopt MBA sales education programs, and encourage business leadership to hire graduates of sales education programs
A Contemporary Look at Cross-Cultural Barriers to Mental Health Services
No full textContemporary research continues to highlight mental health stigma as a key barrier to service utilization existing for many regions and cultures across the globe. Additionally, acculturation and migration issues and a current lack of culturally-competent mental health services and trainings available emerge in literature a key barriers to service utilization. While cultural-diversity is being acknowledged more systemically than ever before, most mental health systems still derive from Western-based medicine and philosophies which struggle to integrate cultural-competence, and seemingly have relied on acculturation processes and psychoeducation to increase service utilization for diverse and migrant populations. Thus, this paper analyzes current cross-cultural trends, similarities and differences on barriers to service utilization such as mental health stigma, acculturation and migration issues, and the reported lack of culturally-competent services and trainings available. Caucasian, East Asian, and South Asian populations are the primary focus within this cross-cultural analysis. Several key findings urge governments and mental health service-providers to strive for cultural-competence through systemic changes that provide collaborative, integrated, and individualized mental healthcare that can be better customized to service-user needs. Additionally, mental healthcare funders are encouraged to engage in more area and community-based research and interventions to identify local mental health trends and barriers to service utilization, leading to more culturally-competent services and staff trainings, and local mental health awareness and education that is tailored based on the specific needs of the area or region studied. My own bi-cultural identity and professional experiences within a culturally-diverse region in Canada provide framework on the relevance of this topic to the field of counselling and mental health within a growing and migrating world
