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Practices to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color in Rural Minnesota Schools
Get PDFThis study delves into the relationships between strategic recruitment and retention practices implemented by rural Minnesota school districts and the recruitment and retention rates of teachers of color within these districts. The research assesses whether districts implementing strategic recruitment practices demonstrate a higher proportion of teacher candidates of color and subsequent hiring rates compared to their peer districts. The study also investigates the relationships between strategic retention practices and the actual retention data observed in districts. Participants included administrators representing districts identified as rural that have a significant percentage of students of color. were selected based on predetermined criteria encompassing district demographics and rural status within Minnesota. A survey tool was used to gather information on the use of strategic recruitment and retention practices, and the relationships were analyzed between the implementation of these practices and the recruitment and retention data in the district. The analysis did not demonstrate strong relationships between the strategic practice implementation and the recruitment and retention data in districts, thus not supporting the study hypotheses. However, modest relationships were observed in some cases, suggesting nuanced correlations between certain strategic practices and recruitment and retention data. Given the limited resources available to rural Minnesota school districts for recruiting and retaining teachers of color, it becomes imperative to allocate these resources thoughtfully. This study emphasizes the need for districts to regularly assess the impact of their recruitment and retention practices based on district results, and not solely rely on the district’s perception of his impact. Ultimately, this study aims to assist districts in optimizing resource allocation toward achieving successful recruitment and retention outcomes for teachers of color
Teaching Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students in Post-Secondary Education
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EFL Writing Teacher Education and Professional Development: Voices from Under-Represented Contexts
No full textThis book explores how EFL writing teacher education is theoretically, pedagogically, methodologically and sociopolitically shaped, given teachers\u27 unique local contexts and circumstances. It showcases practitioners and researchers teaching in, or studying, geographic areas that have as yet been under-represented in international publications, and it focuses on ways that specific contexts create unique opportunities and constraints on what developing teachers know and do in their work. The chapters prioritize local voices and materials to build a more inclusive and comprehensive picture of L2 writing globally, enabling the book as a whole to both document and further shape pedagogical approaches to L2 writing. Readers will be able to use the unique insights contained in this book in their own classrooms and professional development activities.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/university-archives-msu-authors/1474/thumbnail.jp
2024-01: Rethinking Educational Neglect: Supporting and Investing in Families to Thrive
Get PDFSchool attendance challenges are often rooted in systemic issues related to poverty, a lack of access to needed services and support, and biased reporting. These processes have disproportionately impacted Black/African American children, children of two or more races, and American Indian children in Minnesota. Minnesota demonstrates one of the highest disproportionality rates within child welfare in the United States. This is especially important as children of color most often fact systemic issues which disrupt their education. The punitive child protection response to educational neglect in Minnesota does not improve school attendance. Instead, responses that focus on meeting the family\u27s basic needs and building trusting relationships between the family and school system have been shown to reduce absenteeism. Minnesota must invest in these approaches to solve the root issues of educational neglect
Spring 2024 Library Newsletter
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Volume 44, Number 2, June 2024 OLAC Newsletter
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Everyone Else\u27s Body
No full textEveryone Else\u27s Body is a memoir following one woman’s journey towards understanding herself, her body and taking back control. Growing up with moderate-severe eczema, life-altering allergies, a sleep disorder, and disordered eating, Alexandra Boutelle explores her journey towards research, diagnosis, recovery, self acceptance, and control. At the intersection of education, healthcare, inheritance and autonomy, Boutelle\u27s experience highlights the pressures women face to conform, fend off those who police their bodies, and fight to overcome those who manipulate, gaslight, and ignore. From eating non-food items for years, to internally bleeding from a hemorrhaging ovarian cyst, Boutelle\u27s honesty and sharp wit while exploring her experience will enthrall and inspire resistance for change. Through humor, reflection, and lyrical prose, at a time when women\u27s bodily autonomy is being threatened, Everyone Else’s Body forces us to question: what are women being fed, and should they trust the hands that feed them
Geomorphology, Sedimentology, and Depositional Chronology of the Christmas Dunes and their Implications for Proglacial Lake Drainage in the Lake Superior Basin
Get PDFMegaflood (or catastrophic flood) landscapes resulting from overflow or outburst flooding processes have been a focus of geoscientific inquiry dating back nearly 150 years. In these landscapes, the geomorphic forms, both depositional and erosional, have been used to elucidate on the magnitude, frequency, chronology, and landscape evolutionary processes during these high-magnitude events. In addition, recent research has pointed to the landscape altering consequences of these events in creating and/or reorganizing drainage basins downstream of where these events originate – creating new hydrogeomorphic systems. Two significant questions remain in this research: 1) what is the genesis of megaflood depositional dune-like landforms that resemble smaller bedforms in fluvial systems, and 2) because much of the attention of this work has focused downstream of the overflow or outburst flood, how do basins evolve as they catastrophically drain? Given the numerous landscapes that contain these dune-like landforms and abundance of landscapes that have experienced overflow and outburst flood events, further research is necessary. This study attempts to add to our understanding of megaflood geomorphic processes by investigating a newly discovered site that contains two trains of dune-like landforms, just south of the shore of Lake Superior, near Christmas, MI, USA. Herein, we name this study site the Christmas Dunes. Preliminary observations, in the field and in LiDAR-derived imagery, reveal the presence of large, and often imbricated boulders, on the surface of these dune-like landforms and two 19–25.5 m deep bedrock canyons in close proximity to the dune-like landforms. The presence of these landforms at the Christmas Dunes study site suggests a previously unrecognized episode of high-magnitude meltwater discharge across this landscape predating modern Lake Superior. Therefore, these landforms represent a gap in our understanding of the meltwater routing history and proglacial lake-level fluctuations within the Lake Superior basin. In addition, given their location and elevation, they represent an important site to constrain the location of ice margins in the Lake Superior basin during deglaciation. To address the paucity of data at the Christmas Dunes site, we collected 20 ground penetrating radar (GPR) lines, measurements of 814 boulders (dimensions, strike and dip), 7 cosmogenic isotope samples for 10Be surface exposure ages, and morphologic analysis of the landforms using newly available LiDAR-derived DEMs. The GPR data from a landform most proximal to a spillway contained inclined reflections that dip up-flow. It is possible dipping reflections are imbricated boulders buried but the ~19-31° reflection angle is smaller than the typical imbrication angles of surface boulders (21-59°). In addition, no down-flow reflections indicating a potential buried boulder could be positively identified. Thus, we hypothesize these reflections resemble the structure of antidune-like landforms. The presence of antidunes suggests that the flow(s) stopped abruptly because antidunes are commonly obliterated once a flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical. We hypothesize rapid lake level draw-down caused abrupt spillway abandonment allowing the antidune forms to be preserved – this may be reinforced by the boulders armoring the surface of the landforms. Dune-like landforms further from the spillways contain subhorizontal to inclined GPR reflections, the latter interpreted as primarily down-flow dipping sedimentary structures. The transition from antidunes to normal-dune like sedimentary structure suggests a transition in flow regime beyond the most spillway-proximal landforms. Boulder B-axis diameters, dune height, and wavelength decrease with distance from the spillways, supporting the interpretation of a flow and transport-regime shift. Preliminary estimates of paleodischarge suggest flows may have been 0.22 Sv (Fischer et al. 2024), similar to estimates of 0.106 – 0.33 Sv by Breckenridge and Fisher (2021), but future estimates can be made with the new data presented in this thesis. 10Be surface exposure ages (~10.56 ± 657 ka) fit the limited, but well established geochronological constraints, with deposition of the dune-like landforms occurring after the Marquette Readvance to the Grand Marais Moraine (11,541 ± 298 cal BP; Lowell et al. 1999) and before the ice margin had retreated to the Caribou Subbasin, in the interior of modern Lake Superior (10,329 ± 97 cal BP; Breckenridge 2007; Hydro and Longstaffe 2011). The enigmatic issue of ice margin position during the deposition of Christmas Dunes, between the Grand Marais Moraine and Caribou Subbasin, precludes a conclusive hypothesis for the genesis of these landforms. However, given the available evidence and observed similarities with megaflood literature in other landscapes (e.g. Camas Prairie – Missoula Floods), we favor a hypothesis that the Christmas Dune landforms formed during rapid proglacial lake draw-down across the sandstone bedrock ridge into which the spillways are incised. Flow velocities increased as they were confined into the sandstone spillways. This allowed for plucking and entrainment of boulders that were transported and subsequently deposited subaqueously. Subaqueous deposition would be necessary to reduce settling velocity given the friable nature of the sandstone boulders. The Christmas Dune landforms also represent a well-preserved location indicative of internal basin evolution dynamics during the rapid draining of a proglacial lake basin – a concept inadequately understood in overflow and outburst flood literature – and has striking similarities to the Camas Prairie of the Missoula Floods. Future detailed comparisons between these landscapes may help to understand how draining basins evolve. We hypothesize that this event likely occurred when an ice-dam failed east of the Christmas Dunes study site and allowed meltwater from Glacial Lake Duluth to access meltwater in Glacial Lake Minong, which flowed out the eastern outlet (St. Mary’s River) of the Lake Superior basin. This event abruptly rerouted southward-flowing meltwater from the Au Train-Whitefish spillway across the Christmas Dunes study site. Paleo-lake levels at the time of this event are not well constrained given the uncertainty of inputs to Glacial Lake Duluth from Glacial Lake Agassiz. The catastrophic nature of the flows necessary to create the Christmas Dunes suggests a unique event in the Lake Superior basin. Nearby landscapes west of the Christmas Dunes, and at correlative elevations, appear to also indicate catastrophic drainage. We speculate that Lake Agassiz may have contributed to a rapid rise in lake level resulting in ice-dam failure east of the Christmas Dunes site and ultimately resulting in these megaflood erosional and depositional features. Future research on these landscapes may serve to test our hypothesis
Impact of Atheist Identity Disclosure on Experience of Microaggressions in Therapy
Get PDFKhanolkar, Kimaya. (2024). Impact of Atheist Identity Disclosure on Experience of Microaggressions in Therapy [Master’s thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato]. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/1453
Contention One is Our Identity: An Exploration of Queerness in the Collegiate Debate Sphere
Get PDFThis thesis explores the experiences of queer individuals and how they navigate identity within the collegiate debate space. Queer debaters, unlike their cisgender, and heterosexual counterparts face struggle in being able to truly be free to present themselves naturally in debate. Utilizing qualitative interviews to examine the full picture of being queer in collegiate forensics, this project details three major themes: Queer Communication Style, Queer Presentations of Self, and Acceptance in Debate. The conclusion discusses implications of these findings, limitations, and future directions for future research