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Synthesis and structures of a family of hybrid donor N2P2 beta-diketiminate zinc complexes
No full textEliciting and Refining Conceptions of STEM Education: A Series of Activities for Professional Development
No full textIntegrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is becoming increasingly common in K–12 classrooms. However, various definitions of STEM education exist that make it challenging for teachers to know what to implement and how to do so in their classrooms. In this article, we describe a series of activities used in a week-long professional development workshop designed to elicit K–12 teachers’ conceptions of STEM and the roles that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics play in STEM education. These activities not only engage teachers in conversations with peers and colleagues in a professional development setting but also enable teachers to reflect on their learning related to STEM education in the context of creating lesson plans and considering future teaching. In addition to describing these activities, we share suggestions related to how these activities may be used in venues outside of professional development
Read Brave: Art as Activism in Children’s Literature (and beyond) Panel Discussion
No full textThis Zoom event, a collaboration between St. Catherine University’s Arts and Humanities Division and the Read Brave project of the Saint Paul Public Libraries, aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation that Read Brave initiated around “self-worth, healing, reconciliation, liberation, and accountability” in young adult and children’s literature. Our focus will be on the BIPOC characters and authors of this year’s three selected Read Brave children’s books:· Front Desk by Kelly Yang· Astrid and Apollo and the Starry Campout by V.T. Bidania· We are Water Protectors by Carole LindstromPanelists Professors Sarah Park Dahlen (MLIS), Suzanne Kaback (Education) and Hui Wilcox (Sociology), and Librarian Amy Mars will join moderator Professor Cecilia Konchar Farr (English) to discuss representation and truth-telling in these books in particular, in children’s literature in general, and in art universally
The pre-nasal allophonic splitting of /ɛ/ in Toronto Heritage Cantonese
No full textMuysken (2019) has argued that the most convincing cases of contact-induced change in heritage languages involve the dominant language having two distinctions mapping on to one (2-to-1). Evidence of such a case from Toronto heritage Cantonese will be discussed. Toronto English (the dominant language) has an allophonic split in which the TRAP vowel is raised and fronted in pre-nasal contexts. This is argued to influence the development of a similar allophonic split, led by lower proficiency speakers, in which Cantonese /ɛ/ is fronted before nasal consonants. The lack of an /ɛ/ split in Hong Kong Cantonese provides further support for contact-induced change. Unlike cases of a 1-to-2 mapping leading to a loss of a distinction in the heritage language (which can be argued to be internally motivated), this contact-induced split leads to increased phonological complexity, which is inconsistent with a deficit view of heritage language speech production
Nutrition Assessment in St. Mary\u27s Health Clinic Serving Undocumented, Latinx Patients
No full textIntroduction: Current nutrition assessment tools identify specific nutritional complications, such as the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) to detect malnutrition yet fail to identify multiple nutritional risk factors. A population-specific nutrition assessment tool is paramount for patient-centered care at St. Mary\u27s Health Clinic (SMHC), providing health care to undocumented, uninsured, Latinx patients. SMHC patients are at disproportionately high risk for chronic nutrition-related diseases such as cardiovascular disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. This study aimed to establish a new tool for conducting culturally sensitive nutrition assessments.Methods: We created a novel nutrition assessment tool tailored to SMHC patients based on traditional components of nutritional assessment and nutrition barriers identified specific to this patient population. Thirty-one patient assessments were completed using the SGA and our novel tool. We used triangulation to compare the SGA and our tool, rating each tool\u27s ability to capture patients’ nutritional needs and diagnoses. Results: Of 31 patients assessed, 63.3% were female, 36.7% were male, and 83.9% were diagnosed with at least one cardiometabolic disease. Most patients received a nutrition score of A on the SGA, indicating they were not at nutritional risk. Nearly all patients received a nutrition score of B using our novel tool, signifying they needed nutritional intervention. The mean score measuring how well the nutrition assessment tool captured the nutritional risks for the patients was lower for the SGA (2.2±0.5) than for our novel tool (4.9±0.2, p\u3c0.001). Only the novel tool captured important factors such as food insecurity, previous diet education, life stressors, weight gain, and disease-specific nutrition problems.Conclusion: The novel tool is more effective in capturing the nutritional needs of the SMHC patients or similar population. This highlights the need for specialized nutrition assessment tools beyond those designed to detect malnutrition
From the Beqaa Valley to Deep Valley: Arab American Childhood & US Orientalism in Children\u27s Literature
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‘One of the Guys’: Women Leaders and Tokenism in Male-Dominated Environments
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The percentage of women in corporate leadership has been on a slow rise over the previous decades and the statistical representation of women in top management and executive positions continues to change at a very slow rate. Researchers on gender and organizational development are observing a shift towards interventions focused on improving the gender-balance inside organizations and systems (Burke, 2017). My research contributes to the understanding of women leader’s experiences with gender and corporate culture in male-dominated environments with a specific focus on how organizational diversity initiatives affect the working experience of woman leaders. Using qualitative research methods, I interviewed six women leaders inside male-dominated industry about their experiences with gender, corporate culture, and diversity initiatives. Though not intentional, all participants were White women in predominantly White-male led organizations. I employed Laws’ Psychology of Tokenism (Laws, 1975) to frame and inform my findings. Four themes emerged from my data to detail the experiences shared by the participants, including Gender Barriers, Loyalty, Distancing and Ray of Hope Just in Time. I reviewed my findings using each of Laws’ “agreements” of Tokenism and Laws’ prerequisites for disruption. I concluded that the dynamic between Token and Sponsor, and the underlying social system, work together to maintain the status quo, actually slowing the pace of positive change towards gender equality and inclusiveness in predominantly White settings. Finally, I recommend awareness of the agreements of tokenism combined with strategies of gendered organizations and inclusive leadership as tools to disrupt the cycle of tokenism
Family-Centered Support Through Storytelling: A Children’s Book For Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
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FEED Safe: Functional Eating EDucation for Family Caregivers of Children with Disabilities in Lusaka, Zambia
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