District and University Partnerships in Support of a High Needs Urban Elementary School

2020 ◽  
pp. 001312452097433
Author(s):  
Wowek Sean Kearney ◽  
Elizabeth Murakami ◽  
Theresa Entzi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
South Central ◽  
Urban Elementary School ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
Common Goals

The purpose of this study was to identify the strengths and challenges that emerged from the first year of a district and university partnership focused on improving a high needs urban elementary school. This research utilizes an instrumental case study design. The elementary school and the university involved in this study are both public serving institutions located in south central Texas in the United States. This paper examines the partnership after the first year of implementation. Feedback was solicited from district, campus, and university personnel regarding the successes and challenges they encountered. Three themes emerged: administrative support, challenges presented by a change in principal, and a focus on mutual self-interest and common goals. Implications are discussed.

Planning for and Managing iPads in a PreK-4th Grade Independent, Co-Educational Elementary School

2015 ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Natalie B. Milman ◽  
Angela Carlson-Bancroft ◽  
Amy E. Vanden Boogart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Effective Integration

This chapter chronicles the planning and classroom management practices of the first-year implementation of a 1:1 iPad initiative in a suburban, co-educational, independent, PreK-4th grade elementary school in the United States that was examined through a mixed methods QUAL ? QUAN case study. Findings demonstrate that the school's administrators and teachers engaged in pre-planning activities prior to the implementation of the iPad initiative, teachers viewed the iPads as tools in the planning process (iPads were not perceived as the content or subject to be taught/learned), and teachers flexibly employed different classroom management techniques and rules as they learned to integrate iPads in their classrooms. Additionally, the findings reveal the need for continuous formal and informal professional development that offers teachers multiple and varied opportunities to share their planning and classroom management practices, build their confidence and expertise in effective integration of iPads, and learn with and from one another.

Planning for and Managing iPads in a PreK-4th Grade Independent, Co-Educational Elementary School

2016 ◽  
pp. 683-701
Author(s):  
Natalie B. Milman ◽  
Angela Carlson-Bancroft ◽  
Amy E. Vanden Boogart
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Year ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Effective Integration

This chapter chronicles the planning and classroom management practices of the first-year implementation of a 1:1 iPad initiative in a suburban, co-educational, independent, PreK-4th grade elementary school in the United States that was examined through a mixed methods QUAL ? QUAN case study. Findings demonstrate that the school's administrators and teachers engaged in pre-planning activities prior to the implementation of the iPad initiative, teachers viewed the iPads as tools in the planning process (iPads were not perceived as the content or subject to be taught/learned), and teachers flexibly employed different classroom management techniques and rules as they learned to integrate iPads in their classrooms. Additionally, the findings reveal the need for continuous formal and informal professional development that offers teachers multiple and varied opportunities to share their planning and classroom management practices, build their confidence and expertise in effective integration of iPads, and learn with and from one another.

scholarly journals Flood Fatalities in the United States

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 805-818 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon T. Ashley ◽  
Walker S. Ashley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
Structural Modifications ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

Abstract This study compiles a nationwide database of flood fatalities for the contiguous United States from 1959 to 2005. Assembled data include the location of fatalities, age and gender of victims, activity and/or setting of fatalities, and the type of flood events responsible for each fatality report. Because of uncertainties in the number of flood deaths in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina, these data are not included in the study. Analysis of these data reveals that a majority of fatalities are caused by flash floods. People between the ages of 10 and 29 and >60 yr of age are found to be more vulnerable to floods. Findings reveal that human behavior contributes to flood fatality occurrences. These results also suggest that future structural modifications of flood control designs (e.g., culverts and bridges) may not reduce the number of fatalities nationwide. Spatially, flood fatalities are distributed across the United States, with high-fatality regions observed along the northeast Interstate-95 corridor, the Ohio River valley, and near the Balcones Escarpment in south-central Texas. The unique distributions found are likely driven by both physical vulnerabilities for flooding as well as the social vulnerabilities.

scholarly journals Diagnosing Moisture Sources for Flash Floods in the United States. Part I: Kinematic Trajectories

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1495-1509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Erlingis ◽  
Jonathan J. Gourley ◽  
Jeffrey B. Basara
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Flash Flood ◽  
The United States ◽  
Flash Floods ◽  
Reanalysis Data ◽  
Front Range ◽  
Flow Paths ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
Regional Reanalysis

Abstract This study uses backward trajectories derived from North American Regional Reanalysis data for 19 253 flash flood reports during the period 2007–13 published by the National Weather Service to assess the origins of air parcels for flash floods in the conterminous United States. The preferred flow paths for parcels were evaluated seasonally and for six regions of interest: the West Coast, Arizona, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, Flash Flood Alley in south-central Texas, the Missouri Valley, and the Appalachians. Parcels were released from vertical columns in the atmosphere at times and locations where there were reported flash floods; these were traced backward in time for 5 days. The temporal and seasonal cycles of flood events in these regions are also explored. The results show the importance of trajectories residing for long periods over oceanic regions such as the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The flow is generally unidirectional with height in the lower layers of the atmosphere. The trajectory paths from oceanic genesis regions to inland hotspots and their orientation with height provide clues that can assist in the diagnosis of impending flash floods. Part II of this manuscript details the land–atmosphere interactions along the trajectory paths.

Local Histories/Global Designs

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter D. Mignolo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Central America ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
South Central ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Border Thinking ◽  
East West

This book is an extended argument about the “coloniality” of power. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, this book points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. It explores the crucial notion of “colonial difference” in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which the book calls “border thinking.” Further, the book expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling on the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. The book's concept of “border gnosis,” or sensing and knowing by dwelling in imperial/colonial borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to manage, and thus limit, understanding. A new preface discusses this book as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History.

Water quality in south-central Texas, 1996-98

Circular ◽  
2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Bush ◽  
Ann F. Ardis ◽  
Lynne Fahlquist ◽  
Patricia B. Ging ◽  
C. Evan Hornig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
South Central ◽  
Central Texas
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