The Role of Leadership in Surviving a School Shooting

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carleton H. Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
School Principal ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Rural Middle School

At a small rural middle school in the southern United States, two students murdered a teacher, four students, and injured 10 during a shooting spree. This case represents the lived experiences of a school principal, counselor, and community that survived the deadly rampage. The case highlights the challenges that school leaders may face such as making quick decisions, managing volunteers, and assisting faculty, staff, students, and parents in returning to a level of normalcy. Although the experience is based on a real event, all identifying information (i.e., location, names) has been masked with pseudonyms. The case encourages discussion and reflection among school leaders in responding to youth violence on school campuses.

scholarly journals Analysis and Improvement Strategies of the Phenomenon that What Biology Teachers Teach is not What They Learned in Rural Middle Schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richmond Sam Quarm ◽  
Richmond Sam-Quarm ◽  
Mohamed Osman Elamin Busharads ◽  
Juan Peng ◽  
Xuezhong Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
School Education ◽  
Middle School Education ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rural Middle School ◽  
The Government

Rural education is a short board of China’s education. It is of great significance to strengthen the construction of the teacher team in rural middle schools for Rural Revitalization in the new era. The problem of structural shortage of teachers, reflected by the phenomenon of “what biology teachers teach is not what they learned” in rural middle schools, is a key issue that has been existing for a long time in the development of rural middle school education in our country. It is also a key problem that must be paid attention to and urgently solved in the face of the new situation, new tasks and new requirements. In response to this phenomenon that caused by the decline of students and the loss of biological teachers in rural middle schools, the government needs to play a supporting role and the school leaders of rural middle schools should innovate their systems and concepts. What’s more, biological teachers should reflect on their hearts and have the educational feelings of being willing to develop the countryside. Only when the government, middle school leaders and biology teachers have formed an educational synergy, can we better solve that harmful phenomenon and promote the healthy and rapid development of rural middle school education.

Quantifying the role of State and private forest lands in providing surface drinking water supply for the Southern United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Liu ◽  
G. Rebecca Dobbs ◽  
Peter V. Caldwell ◽  
Chelcy Ford Miniat ◽  
Paul V. Bolstad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Drinking Water Supply ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Forest Lands

Quantifying the role of National Forest System lands in providing surface drinking water supply for the Southern United States

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Caldwell ◽  
Corinne Muldoon ◽  
Chelcy Ford-Miniat ◽  
Erika Cohen ◽  
Suzanne Krieger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Drinking Water Supply ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
National Forest

scholarly journals First Description of the Causal Agent of Taproot Decline of Soybean, an Emerging Disease in the Southern United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Allen ◽  
Burt Bluhm ◽  
Kassie Conner ◽  
Vinson Doyle ◽  
Trey Price ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Lateral Roots ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Causal Agent ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Unknown Etiology ◽  
Symptom Expression ◽  
Production Region ◽  
Soybean Plants

Over the past decade, a soybean root issue of unknown etiology has been observed across a widespread geography in the southern United States. Recently, pathologists began referring to the problem as taproot decline of soybean, based on the appearance of root symptoms. Taproot decline has been observed to cause foliar symptoms in vegetative and reproductive soybean plants ranging in maturity from V6 to R6. Symptom expression can appear similar to other notable root-associated diseases except that taproot decline exhibits a progression of symptom expression from subtle to severe interveinal chlorosis during the season. However, one distinct symptom associated with taproot decline is observed as darkened, black stroma on the taproot and, in some cases, the lateral roots of affected plants. Pathogenicity was confirmed by isolating the suspected fungus from naturally-infected soybean roots in multiple states and completing Koch’s postulates. The causal agent was identified, based on morphological characters and multilocus phylogenetic inference, as a member of the Xylaria arbuscula aggregate. At present, research projects are underway to address the role of the newly described disease and extent of the pathogen in the southern soybean production region in addition to developing integrated strategies for managing the disease.

scholarly journals A Novel Ilarvirus Is Associated with Privet Necrotic Ringspot Disease in the Southern United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Aboughanem-Sabanadzovic ◽  
Ioannis E. Tzanetakis ◽  
Amanda Lawrence ◽  
Ronald C. Stephenson ◽  
Sead Sabanadzovic
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Phylogenetic Analyses ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Mechanical Transmission ◽  
Serological Tests ◽  
Double Stranded Rna ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ligustrum Japonicum ◽  
Systemic Infections

Necrotic ringspot disease (NRSD) is a graft-transmissible disorder of privet (synonym ligustrum), originally reported from Florida and Louisiana more than 50 years ago. In this communication we report an isometric virus isolated from Japanese privet (Ligustrum japonicum) collected in the southern United States displaying symptoms resembling those of NRSD. In mechanical transmission tests, the virus induced systemic infections in several herbaceous hosts. Double-stranded RNA analysis showed a pattern resembling replicative forms of members of the family Bromoviridae. The genome organization along with phylogenetic analyses and serological tests revealed that the virus belongs to subgroup 1 of the genus Ilarvirus. Pairwise comparisons with recognized ilarviruses indicated that the virus is a distinct, and as yet, undescribed member in the taxon, for which we propose the name Privet ringspot virus (PrRSV). Furthermore, the near-perfect association of PrRSV infections with symptoms, and apparent absence of any other virus(es) in studied samples, strongly suggest an important role of this virus in the etiology of NRSD of privet in the southeastern United States.

scholarly journals Analysis and Improvement Strategies of the Phenomenon that What Biology Teachers Teach is not What They Learned in Rural Middle Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Peng ◽  
Chuanling Zhang ◽  
Yanfang Sun ◽  
Juan Peng ◽  
Xuezhong Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
School Education ◽  
Middle School Education ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rural Middle School ◽  
The Government

Rural education is a short board of China’s education. It is of great significance to strengthen the construction of the teacher team in rural middle schools for Rural Revitalization in the new era. The problem of structural shortage of teachers, reflected by the phenomenon of “what biology teachers teach is not what they learned” in rural middle schools, is a key issue that has been existing for a long time in the development of rural middle school education in our country. It is also a key problem that must be paid attention to and urgently solved in the face of the new situation, new tasks and new requirements. In response to this phenomenon that caused by the decline of students and the loss of biological teachers in rural middle schools, the government needs to play a supporting role and the school leaders of rural middle schools should innovate their systems and concepts. What’s more, biological teachers should reflect on their hearts and have the educational feelings of being willing to develop the countryside. Only when the government, middle school leaders and biology teachers have formed an educational synergy, can we better solve that harmful phenomenon and promote the healthy and rapid development of rural middle school education.

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