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Commencement Program [Spring 2024]
Get PDFSt. Cloud State University commencement program for spring 2024https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/commpro/1286/thumbnail.jp
KLATTGRID AND FORMANT-BASED SPEECH SYNTHESIS: DEMONSTRATION WITH BETINE
Get PDFIn this paper, we describe a method for extracting speech segment features from an audio recording such that speech may be reconstructed while maintaining emphasis and stress with minimal annotation. We also present a script for the linguistic research tool, Praat, for performing this extraction and reconstruction via KlattGrid synthesis [1]. This technique contributes to the ongoing research efforts to preserve the Betine language (ISO 639-3:eot), one of 10 critically endangered languages spoken in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
Association Between Minnesota Special Education Administrators\u27 Level of Burnout and Job-Person Fit
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Occupational burnout occurs when an individual experiences emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment (Leiter & Maslach, 2022). Educator burnout research focuses primarily on teachers (DeMatthews et al., 2021) with scarce research on special education administrators (Lashley & Boscardin, 2003). This quantitative study explored 213 Minnesota Special Education Administrators’ perceived levels of burnout and degree of job-person fit using the Maslach Burnout Inventory for Educators (MBI-ES) and the Areas of Worklife Survey (AWS) (Leiter & Maslach, 2011; Maslach et al, 2018).
The results found that those surveyed experience emotional exhaustion a few times a month, depersonalization a few times a year to once a month or less and personal accomplishment once a week to a few times a week. The greatest degree of job-person match was found in values with the poorest match in fairness. When disaggregated by demographic group varied levels of burnout and job-person fit were seen across groups. A moderate negative correlation was found between emotional exhaustion and workload and a weak negative correlation between emotional exhaustion and the other worklife areas. Weak negative correlations were seen between depersonalization and all areas of job-person fit and weak positive correlations with personal accomplishment and five of the six areas.
Organizations should attempt to reduce administrator workload so it does not lead to emotional exhaustion which could cascade into burnout. Special education administrator’s values match could be a protective factor against burnout that should be leveraged. To best support students and teachers, districts must address administrator burnout: “We may be leaders, but we’re also human. If we are truly interested in helping others, we have to help ourselves first” (Moss, 2021, p. 140)
Opportunities for Collaboration and Training and Their Relationship to Collective Teacher Efficacy When Educating Students with Disabilities
Get PDFAs school leaders and educators strive for success and equitable opportunities with improved outcomes for students with disabilities, it is essential to consider practices and perceptions that are known to impact student achievement, access, and support. Exploring teacher ratings of collective efficacy when serving students with disabilities and gaining feedback on practices administrators can incorporate into the professional workday may reveal where schools may improve their practices. While several research studies exist on the concept of collective teacher efficacy, collaboration, and training, in reviewing the literature, there were limitations found in the research reviewed regarding current perceptions of collective efficacy specific to serving students with disabilities and their relationship to teacher opportunities for collaboration between general and special education teachers as well as teacher opportunities for training and professional development.
This quantitative study surveyed general and special education teachers in participating K-12 Minnesota Public Schools to gain insight into these concepts. It provides school leaders with information regarding practices that teachers have identified as most important to building their capacity for educating students with disabilities, as well as practices that may result in higher collective efficacy scores when educating students with disabilities
Obstacles Women of Color Encounter as Educational Leaders and The Successful Pathway Leading to The Superintendency
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The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify select Minnesota women of color superintendents. (1) Report on the obstacles and challenges they encounter, essential leadership characteristics, identify needs, policies, develop regulations, manage the day-to-day operation of the district while examining the successful pathway to the superintendency. (2) To analyze how select Minnesota woman of color superintendents’ personal beliefs and attributes align with being responsible for monitoring projects’ development, ensuring deadlines, quotas, how outputs are being met while encountering challenges as well as showing leadership skills as superintendents. (3) Provide current and future school administrators with communication, team building, operational flexibility, instructional knowledge and problem-solving strategies through obstacles they face and do so successfully as educational school leaders. These select Minnesota women of color superintendents were selected to participate in the study from a recommended list of superintendents who are successful educational leaders in the role of the superintendency. Data was collected in the form of semi structured in-depth interviews. The findings from the study identified the strategies, essential leadership characteristics considered necessary described by the selected women of color superintendents were cooperating, innovation, communication, and detailed resolutions through barriers enabled successful outcomes.
According to Superville “Like other district leaders, female district leaders of color education experiences are rooted in the classroom, the building level, and district support positions. Among a range of options, they were more likely to select classroom teacher, principal, district-level coordinator or supervisor, and associate superintendent or deputy superintendent among their past professional experiences than they were to pick a non-teaching role such as counselor or the military” (Superville, 2023, p. 1).
Women of color superintendents are devoted, and all students are their focus since they occupied the classrooms as teachers. They continue to support the students and the schools whether they are principals, coordinators, supervisors, associate or deputy superintendents. They are educational leaders with strategies that address challenges, their actions promote problem solving techniques, and their female perspectives encourage teamwork as leaders. Women of color superintendents enact positive, lasting change that benefits the lives of students, teachers and administrators. Women of color superintendents are on the rise as they are committed to improving the school environment and fostering student learning
The Impact of Student Loan Debt and the Student Loan Moratorium for Graduates During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe current study was conducted to better understand the impact of student loan debt and student loan moratorium for graduates during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study utilized a qualitative research design using narrative inquiry to better understand participants experiences. The conceptual framework for this study was Bourdieu’s (1977) Framework on Economic Capital, Cultural Capital, and Reproduction and Perna’s (2006) College Choice Model. Participants in this study graduated in 2020 or 2021 with student loan debt, had federal loans and were enrolled in a repayment plan, and had forbearance status for part or all of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study had four participants that completed a demographic survey, and two zoom interviews. This study’s findings reveal that all participants wouldn’t have been able to pursue higher education if it wasn’t for student loans. Findings from this study indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic and student loan moratorium provided borrowers with a feeling of peace and stability, and the opportunity to accrue wealth. Findings also indicate that our student loans system is broken, more borrowers are struggling with mental health, and that there is a need for financial literacy for college students. Suggestions for future research include following up with these current participants five years from now, completing a cross-generational student interviewing student loan borrowers and their parents to have a better understanding on financial decision-making, student loan debt, and financial literacy knowledge overtime. Further exploration on Public Student Loan Forgiveness due to the changes in the FAFSA, eligibility for PELL Grants and the SAVE repayment plan is also recommended
The Prisoner’s Dilemma and Remote Work: A Forecast of Pitfalls Endemic to Working from Home
Get PDFTwo decades into the twentieth century, remote work is taking industry by storm. As more and more efficient methods of working are being developed, the question of how these inherently isolating practices may effect employees has gone unanswered. Classic economic games such as the Prisoner’s Dilemma can give us some insight into how isolation in high-reward environments can cause antisocial, even selfish tendencies to manifest. This paper examines potential pitfalls to long-term remote work via the many iterations of the Prisoner’s Dilemma developed throughout the years. Special focus is put on predictive traits in the form of narcissism and Machiavellianism, and how anonymity and isolation can promote misbehavior and toxic behavioral patterns. Further research in this field is recommended by researchers, and a hypothetical experiment is detailed at the conclusion of this paper