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1. Harvard University
Harvard University is evidently a diverse institution that valued diversity and inclusion. At Harvard, the administrators, faculty, staff, and student representing various races, interests, ages, and backgrounds come to pursue their common goals (Harvard.edu, 2019). Harvard works towards providing an environment that promotes … diversity initiatives, policies, and programs to the university (Harvard University, 2019). The H-OAP (Harvard-Office of Assistant President) collaborates with the president’s office, the student, vice president, deans, staff, faculty, departments, and units across the schools and divisions to achieve this mission (Harvard University, 2019). The objective of … the importance, complexity, and centrality of inclusiveness in the administrative and academic endeavors. Secondly, the H-OAP fosters understanding about the diverse working and learning environment and assigns meaning to the significance and meaning of equity outreach and equal opportunity efforts (Harvard University, 2019).
Harvard University staff, student, administrators, visitors, faculty, and alumni represent……
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Harvard.edu (2019). Diversity and Inclusion. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://hr.harvard.edu/diversity-inclusion
Harvard University (2019). Mission Statement, Office of the Assistant to the President Institutional Diversity and Equity. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://diversity.harvard.edu/pages/about
Harvard University (2016). Pursuing Excellence on a Foundation of Inclusion, Harvard University Presidential Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://inclusionandbelongingtaskforce.harvard.edu/files/inclusion/files/harvard_inclusion belonging_task_force_final_report_full_web_180327.pdf
The Guardian (2019). Cambridge University\\\\'s poor diversity record highlighted by report. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/03/cambridge-colleges-poor-record-on- diversity-highlighted-by-report
University of Cambridge (2019). Equality, diversity and inclusion, Student wellbeing. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from https://www.studentwellbeing.admin.cam.ac.uk/equality-diversity- and-inclusion
University of Oxford (2018). University of Oxford Strategic Plan. Retrieved 19 March, 2019 from http://www.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxford/field/field_document/Strategic%20Plan%202018- 23.pdf
Walpole, M. B. (2003). Socioeconomic Status and College: How SES Affects College Experiences and Outcomes. The Review of Higher Education, 27, 1, 45-73. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2003.0044
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Should Teachers Allow student Access to Internet in Classrooms
Why Kids in Classrooms Today Do Not Need Any More Wild West in Them: “Trading Classroom Authority for … out, children cannot succeed—academically or professionally—without developing grit, resilience, and determination. Rorabaugh’s argument is that bringing the Internet into the classroom and allowing student to engage in self-directed learning can help to build that grit, resilience and determination as it allows them room to spread their wings in a controlled environment (under … the journey for answers. Rorabaugh states that it encourages active participation rather than passive reception of information from a teacher. With the Internet, student are like sleuths in a digital Wild West, and giving them that opportunity is like giving them training in simulated combat: they are … are very vulnerable to misinformation and still require a great deal of guidance. Even Dante the poet…[break]…levels of education, such as……
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Domhardt, Matthias, et al. \\\\\\\\\\\\"Resilience in survivors of child sexual abuse: A systematic review of the literature.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 16.4 (2015): 476-493.
Perkins-Gough, Deborah. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The significance of grit: A conversation with Angela Lee Duckworth.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Educational Leadership 71.1 (2013): 14-20.
Rorabaugh, Pete. “Trading Classroom Authority for Online Community.” Hybrid Pedagogy, 5 Jan 2012. https://hybridpedagogy.org/trading-classroom-authority-for-online-community/
Tough, Paul. How children succeed: Grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
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… migration policies and compulsory free education in the nation. One of the key goals of these novel \"common\" American schools was: \"Americanization\" of student under a broader attempt at assimilating Eastern and Southern European migrants (Ovando, 2003). The development of this linguistic ideology become the cornerstone whereby … taking individual, community, and societal action for promoting a democratic living and democracy. Wei (2013) found that opportunities to take individual action aid student in developing a sense of individual and community efficiency, belief in their capability of effecting changes within their respective institutions, and in situations … the part of primary-level children may involve committing to not laugh at derogatory ethnic jokes. Action on the part of early to middle-grade student may include reading books on other cultural, racial, and ethnic groups. student at the upper elementary level may cultivate friendships with student belonging to other ethnic and racial groups,……
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… more-complex texts, Davis (2013) suggests that educators should be able to inject fun readings and other activities that engage the learners in the learning activity. In reading, several instructional activities are suggested among them; questioning, activating, monitoring-clarifying, inferring, searching-selecting, play-based instruction, and visual-organizing. The organization of the …
The second section is writing, which covers common Core State Standards for writing. The section emphasizes the applicability of writing nonfiction context for student as well as writing arguments. The section uses a variety of instructional activities for writing, including handouts, tapping into prior knowledge, talking time, … share important qualities about them. After learners will pair with a classmate and share. The educator will walk around the classroom and guide student as required.
Direct instruction
Using a digital tool, e.g., the App Popplet, the educator will model how to create a mind map. Using … instruction
Using a digital tool,……
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Biondi, L. (2012). A Major CCSS Resource [Review of the book Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans: Ready-to-Use Resources 6-8, By Lauren Davis]. Middle web. Retrieved from https://www.middleweb.com/4982/a-major-ccss-resource/
Davis, L. (Ed.). (2013). Common Core Literacy Lesson Plans: Ready-to-Use Resources, K-5. Routledge.
Ramakrishna, A., & Sawhney, M. S. (2012). Constructivist Lesson Planning: Theory and Practice. RESEARCHERS ORGANIZATION BILASPUR (CG), 121.
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Background: Why Teach Sexual Education?
With about half of all high school student admitting to have already had sex, and only 60% of those student claiming they used a condom, sexual education can be considered a public health imperative (National Conference of State Legislatures, 2019). Unwanted pregnancy and … diseases are the most important health-related reasons to teach sexual education in public schools. Research has shown that “when sex education is comprehensive, student feel more informed, make safer choices and have healthier outcomes — resulting in fewer unplanned pregnancies and more protection against sexually transmitted diseases … — resulting in fewer unplanned pregnancies and more protection against sexually transmitted diseases and infection,” (“America’s Sex Education: How We Are Failing Our student,” 2017, p. 1). Children will seek out and find information related to sex outside the classroom, such as on the Internet, opening them … require sexual education to be……
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Abbott, K., Ellis, S. J., & Abbott, R. (2016). “We”ve got a lack of family values’: an examination of how teachers formulate and justify their approach to teaching sex and relationships education. Sex Education, 16(6), 678–691. doi:10.1080/14681811.2016.1169398
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Pardini, P. (2019). The history of sexuality education. Rethinking Schools. Retrieved from http://rethinkingschools.aidcvt.com/sex/sexhisto.shtml
Planned Parenthood (2019). What is sex education? Retrieved from https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/for-educators/what-sex-education
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Article Summary
The study by Jiang, Tang, Peng and Liu (2018) looks at using social networks as a tool to facilitate collaboration among student and interaction between teachers and student in a Chinese high school. The investigations into the utility of social networks were conducted among various design and technology classrooms in high … in high schools throughout China. Based on the findings, Jiang et al. (2018) were able to produce a theoretical framework for web-based design learning and teaching system in the style of social networking. They tested their framework and found that the most important features of the framework … interaction.
The researchers additionally “validated necessary techniques and design features required to make an education-related social networking site effective and affective for the student and teachers” (Jiang et al., 2018, p. 189). The overall finding was that social networking sites help to enhance the collaborative and interactive ………
References
Jiang, H., Tang, M., Peng, X., & Liu, X. (2018). Learning design and technology through social networks for high school students in China. International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 28(1), 189-206.
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Chicago Public School (CPS) system is the most understaffed in Illinois, where throughout the state the average student to staff ratio is 11 to one. In the CPS system, it is 16 to one—16 student to every one teacher, and that is just going by averages (Sepeda-Miller, 2018). As Laraviere (2019) puts it, “the 20 most adequately staffed … (Sepeda-Miller, 2018). As Laraviere (2019) puts it, “the 20 most adequately staffed school districts in Illinois have 100 staff members for every 500 student.” Yet in CPS, it is just 29 staff for every 500 student (Laraviere, 2019)—which means when compared to the best that Illinois has to offer, Chicago looks like the worst. That is a serious shame … no maximum limit on classroom size in the CPS system (Guerrero, 2019), and some classes can grow much larger than already woeful average student to teacher ratios. What all this means……
References
Blatchford, P., & Russell, A. (2019). Class size, grouping practices and classroom management. International Journal of Educational Research, 96, 154-163.
Guerrero, M. (2019). Understaffed and overcrowded: Chicago teachers on strike. Retrieved from https://depauliaonline.com/43619/news/understaffed-and-overcrowded-chicago-teachers-on-strike/
Laraviere, T. (2019). Is the teachers' union demanding enough? Retrieved from https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/teachers-union-demanding-enough
Leone, H. (2019). Chicago Public Schools’ enrollment drops another 6,000 students, extending long downward trend. Retrieved from https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-cps-chicago-public-schools-enrollment-decline-20191108-u7qkibaptnb7ljyob3frclgldy-story.html
Sepeda-Miller. (2018). Is CPS the most understaffed district in Illinois? Retrieved from https://www.politifact.com/illinois/statements/2018/jun/21/troy-laraviere/cps-most-understaffed-district-illinois/
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… of the handbook include 1) the district’s legal obligations to ELLs and their parents, 2) the district’s procedures for identifying, assessing and placing student in ESOL program, 3) the district’s educational approach and curriculum, 4) the district’s methods and procedures for student exiting from ESOL program, and 5) the district’s method of evaluating the effectiveness of the ESOL program (“Danville School District ESOL Program Handbook,”2019). … Civil Rights of 1964, Title VI
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits recipients of federal financial assistance from discriminating a student on color, race, or country of origin (“Danville School District ESOL Program Handbook,”2019). Since all public schools get some kind of federal funding, … 1974
The Equal Educational Opportunities Act states that each district should “take appropriate action to overcome barriers that impede equal participation [of their] student in [they are] instructional programs” (“Danville School District ESOL Program Handbook,”2019).……
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Danville School District ESOL Program Handbook. (2019, October). Cloud Object Storage | Store & Retrieve Data Anywhere | Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/364/esl_handbook_updated_oct_2019_1.pdf
Díaz-Rico, L. T., & Weed, K. Z. (2010). The Crosscultural, language, and academic development handbook: A complete K-12 reference guide (4th ed.). Allyn & Bacon.
Sutton, L. C., Cornelius, L., & McDonald-Gordon, R. (2012). English language learners and judicial oversight: Progeny of Castaneda. Educational Considerations, 39(2). https://doi.org/10.4148/0146-9282.1111
U.S. Department of Education. (2012, May). Language Instruction Educational Programs (LIEPs): A Review of the Foundational Literature. https://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/title-iii/language-instruction-ed-programs-report.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice. (2019, October 15). Types of educational opportunities discrimination. https://www.justice.gov/crt/types-educational-opportunities-discrimination
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… alleviate that pressure is to create an environment in which everyone fits in ipso facto—and that can easily be achieved by obliging all student to wear a school uniform. One is used to seeing student of private schools wear uniforms, but in public schools this idea is typically shunned. There are good arguments to be made, however, for … made, however, for uniforms to be mandated by public schools. First off, research has shown that school uniforms actually promote good conduct among student and more formal adherence to the rules and regulations of the school. Second, parents and teachers support the idea. Third, it is a … from thinking about how they should look: focus can be on books instead of on looks. Fourth, uniforms can instill greater confidence in student by helping to create an environment in which self-esteem and self-actualization can be achieved. While there is no……
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Caruso, P. (1996). Individuality vs. conformity: The issue behind school uniforms. NASSP Bulletin, 80(581), 83-88.
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… importance and relevance. To determine the facts, the purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the relevant literature, including the student handbook, to describe the importance of leadership for professional nursing practice. Finally, a summary of the research and important findings about professional nursing … be prepared to “hit the ground running” in a leadership role from day one of their career. For example, Standard 12 of the student handbook, “Leadership,” clearly states that, “The registered nurse demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession” (p. 47). In addition, the … handbook, “Leadership,” clearly states that, “The registered nurse demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession” (p. 47). In addition, the student handbook also stipulates that one of the core competencies for patient-centered care includes “assuming the role of . . . leader based on ……
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Delgado, C. & Mitchell, M. M. (2016, January-February). A survey of current valued academic leadership qualities in nursing. Nursing Education Perspectives, 37(1), 10-13.
Meliniotis, C. (2015, March 30). Effective nursing leadership. Elite Healthcare. Retrieved from https://www.elitecme.com/resource-center/nursing/effective-nursing-leadership/ .
Student handbook.
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