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Supervising TESOL Practicum at the Adult ESL Community Outreach Program
No full textIn this article I reflect on my experience as a TESOL practicum course professor supervising MA students who undertook service-learning-based practicum at the Adult ESL Community Outreach Program (COP) I organize and offer in conjunction and concurrently with the course. Having explained how I followed Perren’s (2013) Strategic Step framework for service-learning projects, I describe the roles I assumed (supervisor, mentor, and course professor), reflect on challenges I faced and how I overcame them, and note the benefits I incurred specifically those related to video-mediated post teaching reflections. I conclude with recommendations for teacher educators interested in offering service-learning-informed teaching practicums
Building Bridges, Not Walls: Mobilizing Community Engagement to Promote Democracy, Diversity, and Equity
No full textThis paper outlines a collaborative university-community initiative, Building Bridges, Not Walls: The Democracy and Diversity Project. Building Bridges emphasizes the critical role of community engagement in reducing barriers to democratic participation, social equity, and student success. In pursuit of these outcomes, we present a model of a sustainable, accessible, and cross-disciplinary network of sequenced engagement projects. The interconnected cross-curricular projects are mutually designed and implemented with community partners, providing an emulatable case study to promote civic engagement in multiple contexts and communities. Building Bridges mobilizes sociological theory to consider the question of how universities can be regularly engaged with our communities in a consistent, collaborative, and sustainable manner. Informed by \u27service sociology\u27 literature we outline four stages of our Building Bridges model: design, implementation, evaluation, and reflective revision. These stages are concretized through application to our public university and community, providing a template for other universities and communities to follow. We propose integrated engagement as a means for universities to combat challenges to equity and diversity. As our communities face unprecedented tests to our democratic institutions, we contend that community engagement is higher education’s keenest armament
"Unwaivering" Justice: How Indiana Should Balance Fairness and Finality by Limiting Waivers of Sentence Appeals
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Review of The Rhetoric and Writing of Cricital Race Theory by Aja Y. Martinez
No full textCritical race theory (CR T) has become a hot-button issue as oflate. Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory by AjaY. Martinez is an award-winning contribution to the conversationsurrounding CR T. Martinez’s monograph offers a clear and helpfulhistorical overview and explanation of CR T in her argument forcounterstory as method and methodology appropriate for WritingStudies teaching and research. This review of her monograph aimsto elucidate the work’s value to K-16 writing activist-teacher researchers.With its contributions to teaching as well as criticalconversations and commitments in Education and Writing Studies,the book actualizes professional statements already reviewed inJTW; it can help teachers of writing actualize those statements intheir pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and conversations withfamilies and colleagues
