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Research paper thumbnail of It's Not Just Field Experience: Rural and Underserved Summer Service-Learning Experiences of Teacher Candidates

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Influencing Black Female Teacher Candidates' Sense of New Teacher Self

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of Cross-Cultural Experiences on Developing Culturally Responsive Teacher Candidates

As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher pre... more As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher preparation programs have yet to adequately prepare teacher candidates' teaching and learning skills in meeting the academic and socio-emotional needs of diverse student demographics. Thus, school districts are in need of culturally competent new teachers who have the content knowledge and pedagogy to teach culturally and linguistically diverse children. Recognizing this need, this qualitative analysis examines the teacher candidates' cultural and intercultural competence as developing culturally and linguistically responsive new teachers. Considering the disparaging academic achievement of many U.S. public school students, culturally responsive teaching may assist in closing enduring achievement gaps. To this end, this study's findings highlighted the importance of and a need for cultural competence among teacher candidates. Findings from this study provides a means by which universities can implement cross-cultural coursework and field-based experiences to prepare culturally responsive teacher candidates. Keywords: teacher preparation, cultural competence, culturally responsive pedagogy

Research paper thumbnail of An examination of cross-cultural experiences on developing culturally responsive teacher candidates

Emerald open research, Jun 7, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving Higher Learning: Microinvalidations of Black Junior Faculty in Higher Education

Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of A Search for Equity: An Exploratory Study of Practice-Based Teacher Education at a Minority-Serving Institution

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of IPsec Channels: Connection Latching

This document specifies, abstractly, how to interface applications and transport protocols with I... more This document specifies, abstractly, how to interface applications and transport protocols with IPsec so as to create "channels" by latching "connections" (packet flows) to certain IPsec Security Association (SA) parameters for the lifetime of the connections. Connection latching is layered on top of IPsec and does not modify the underlying IPsec architecture. Connection latching can be used to protect applications against accidentally exposing live packet flows to unintended peers, whether as the result of a reconfiguration of IPsec or as the result of using weak peer identity to peer address associations. Weak association of peer ID and peer addresses is at the core of Better Than Nothing Security (BTNS); thus, connection latching can add a significant measure of protection to BTNS IPsec nodes. Finally, the availability of IPsec channels will make it possible to use channel binding to IPsec channels. Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Research paper thumbnail of It’s Not Hard Work; It’s Heart Work: Strategies of Effective, Award-Winning Culturally Responsive Teachers

The Urban Review, Feb 8, 2017

With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and inst... more With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and instructing all student demographic groups is a pertinent educational issue. As such, there has been an ensuing need for teachers to develop the knowledge, dispositions, and pedagogical skills and competencies necessary to teach children from diverse backgrounds. Acknowledging this need, this qualitative analysis examines the teaching strategies that seven award-winning teachers of students in urban schools use to cultivate culturally responsive classroom environments. Considering the disparaging academic achievement of many U.S. public school students, culturally responsive teaching may assist in closing enduring achievement gaps. To this end, this study's findings indicate four major themes that may inform the classroom pedagogical practices of practitioners.

Research paper thumbnail of A Search for Equity: An Exploratory Study of Practice-Based Teacher Education at a Minority-Serving Institution

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving Higher Learning: Microinvalidations of Black Junior Faculty in Higher Education

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Training the Health Care Workforce

American Journal of Public Health, 2013

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to be overlooked as a resource to a... more Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to be overlooked as a resource to address health care workforce shortages and growing needs for a diverse health workforce, despite our commitment as a nation to health equity and eliminating health disparities. Health workforce graduation rates help illuminate the roles of institutions of higher education in meeting workforce needs. Effective approaches to eliminating disparities invest and leverage resources that address our health workforce and diversity deficits. We must recognize HBCUs as a valuable resource for educating underrepresented groups as health professionals. Increasing resources and enhancing support for building the capacity of HBCUs to produce health professionals is vital to addressing disparities and achieving health equity for our nation.

Research paper thumbnail of It's Not Just Field Experience: Rural and Underserved Summer Service-Learning Experiences of Teacher Candidates

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting

Research paper thumbnail of Factors Affecting Campus Climate: Creating a Welcoming Environment

Diversity and climate is a major concern on college and university campuses (Hart, 2008). In the ... more Diversity and climate is a major concern on college and university campuses (Hart, 2008). In the past two decades, the number of faculty with gender, racial, disability status, and religious differences has increased (Holley, Larson, Adelman, & Trevino, 2008; Jayakumar, Howard, Allen, & Han, 2009; Locks, Sylvia, Hurtado, Bowman, & Oseguera, 2008; Pittman, 2012; Vaccaro, 2010). Understanding the issues of diversifying institutions while addressing the psychological and behavioral dimensions of the climate is significant (Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pedersen, & Allen, 1998). Sustaining and assuring a welcoming environment while incorporating a diversity of voices, knowledge, and lived experiences in the educational and academic process is of paramount importance to higher education.Campus climate is the interplay among people, processes, institutional culture, and represent important aspects of an organization including perceptions and expectations of the people in the academic community ...

Research paper thumbnail of An examination of cross-cultural experiences on developing culturally responsive teacher candidates

Emerald Open Research, 2019

As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher pre... more As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher preparation programs have yet to adequately prepare teacher candidates’ teaching and learning skills in meeting the academic and socio-emotional needs of diverse student demographics. This article examines teacher candidates’ cultural competence and cultural responsiveness to enhance candidates’ educator preparation and stimulate candidates’ personal growth development as developing culturally and linguistically responsive new teachers. While many teacher preparation programs require one multicultural or diversity education course, the authors examine a Minority Serving Institution’s integration of a cultural immersion experience for teacher candidates as one way of supporting their development as culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogues. This paper aims at supporting school districts’ need of culturally competent new teachers who have the content knowledge and pedagogy to teach ...

Research paper thumbnail of It’s Not Hard Work; It’s Heart Work: Strategies of Effective, Award-Winning Culturally Responsive Teachers

The Urban Review, 2017

With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and inst... more With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and instructing all student demographic groups is a pertinent educational issue. As such, there has been an ensuing need for teachers to develop the knowledge, dispositions, and pedagogical skills and competencies necessary to teach children from diverse backgrounds. Acknowledging this need, this qualitative analysis examines the teaching strategies that seven award-winning teachers of students in urban schools use to cultivate culturally responsive classroom environments. Considering the disparaging academic achievement of many U.S. public school students, culturally responsive teaching may assist in closing enduring achievement gaps. To this end, this study's findings indicate four major themes that may inform the classroom pedagogical practices of practitioners.

Research paper thumbnail of Tweeting as Civic Agency: What is the Role of Social Media in Social Studies Classrooms?

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of Cross-Cultural Experiences on Developing Culturally Responsive Teacher Candidates

Research paper thumbnail of Systems of Care for addressing the traumatic impact of violence exposure on student well-being

Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar\_savannah Part... more Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah Part of the Counselor Education Commons, Educational Sociology Commons, Health and Physical Education Commons, Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Special Education and Teaching Commons, Student Counseling and Personnel Services Commons, Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons, and the Urban Education Commons

Research paper thumbnail of It's Not Just Field Experience: Rural and Underserved Summer Service-Learning Experiences of Teacher Candidates

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Influencing Black Female Teacher Candidates' Sense of New Teacher Self

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of Cross-Cultural Experiences on Developing Culturally Responsive Teacher Candidates

As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher pre... more As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher preparation programs have yet to adequately prepare teacher candidates' teaching and learning skills in meeting the academic and socio-emotional needs of diverse student demographics. Thus, school districts are in need of culturally competent new teachers who have the content knowledge and pedagogy to teach culturally and linguistically diverse children. Recognizing this need, this qualitative analysis examines the teacher candidates' cultural and intercultural competence as developing culturally and linguistically responsive new teachers. Considering the disparaging academic achievement of many U.S. public school students, culturally responsive teaching may assist in closing enduring achievement gaps. To this end, this study's findings highlighted the importance of and a need for cultural competence among teacher candidates. Findings from this study provides a means by which universities can implement cross-cultural coursework and field-based experiences to prepare culturally responsive teacher candidates. Keywords: teacher preparation, cultural competence, culturally responsive pedagogy

Research paper thumbnail of An examination of cross-cultural experiences on developing culturally responsive teacher candidates

Emerald open research, Jun 7, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving Higher Learning: Microinvalidations of Black Junior Faculty in Higher Education

Cambridge University Press eBooks, May 31, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of A Search for Equity: An Exploratory Study of Practice-Based Teacher Education at a Minority-Serving Institution

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of IPsec Channels: Connection Latching

This document specifies, abstractly, how to interface applications and transport protocols with I... more This document specifies, abstractly, how to interface applications and transport protocols with IPsec so as to create "channels" by latching "connections" (packet flows) to certain IPsec Security Association (SA) parameters for the lifetime of the connections. Connection latching is layered on top of IPsec and does not modify the underlying IPsec architecture. Connection latching can be used to protect applications against accidentally exposing live packet flows to unintended peers, whether as the result of a reconfiguration of IPsec or as the result of using weak peer identity to peer address associations. Weak association of peer ID and peer addresses is at the core of Better Than Nothing Security (BTNS); thus, connection latching can add a significant measure of protection to BTNS IPsec nodes. Finally, the availability of IPsec channels will make it possible to use channel binding to IPsec channels. Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Research paper thumbnail of It’s Not Hard Work; It’s Heart Work: Strategies of Effective, Award-Winning Culturally Responsive Teachers

The Urban Review, Feb 8, 2017

With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and inst... more With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and instructing all student demographic groups is a pertinent educational issue. As such, there has been an ensuing need for teachers to develop the knowledge, dispositions, and pedagogical skills and competencies necessary to teach children from diverse backgrounds. Acknowledging this need, this qualitative analysis examines the teaching strategies that seven award-winning teachers of students in urban schools use to cultivate culturally responsive classroom environments. Considering the disparaging academic achievement of many U.S. public school students, culturally responsive teaching may assist in closing enduring achievement gaps. To this end, this study's findings indicate four major themes that may inform the classroom pedagogical practices of practitioners.

Research paper thumbnail of A Search for Equity: An Exploratory Study of Practice-Based Teacher Education at a Minority-Serving Institution

Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving Higher Learning: Microinvalidations of Black Junior Faculty in Higher Education

Research paper thumbnail of The Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Training the Health Care Workforce

American Journal of Public Health, 2013

Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to be overlooked as a resource to a... more Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to be overlooked as a resource to address health care workforce shortages and growing needs for a diverse health workforce, despite our commitment as a nation to health equity and eliminating health disparities. Health workforce graduation rates help illuminate the roles of institutions of higher education in meeting workforce needs. Effective approaches to eliminating disparities invest and leverage resources that address our health workforce and diversity deficits. We must recognize HBCUs as a valuable resource for educating underrepresented groups as health professionals. Increasing resources and enhancing support for building the capacity of HBCUs to produce health professionals is vital to addressing disparities and achieving health equity for our nation.

Research paper thumbnail of It's Not Just Field Experience: Rural and Underserved Summer Service-Learning Experiences of Teacher Candidates

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting

Research paper thumbnail of Factors Affecting Campus Climate: Creating a Welcoming Environment

Diversity and climate is a major concern on college and university campuses (Hart, 2008). In the ... more Diversity and climate is a major concern on college and university campuses (Hart, 2008). In the past two decades, the number of faculty with gender, racial, disability status, and religious differences has increased (Holley, Larson, Adelman, & Trevino, 2008; Jayakumar, Howard, Allen, & Han, 2009; Locks, Sylvia, Hurtado, Bowman, & Oseguera, 2008; Pittman, 2012; Vaccaro, 2010). Understanding the issues of diversifying institutions while addressing the psychological and behavioral dimensions of the climate is significant (Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pedersen, & Allen, 1998). Sustaining and assuring a welcoming environment while incorporating a diversity of voices, knowledge, and lived experiences in the educational and academic process is of paramount importance to higher education.Campus climate is the interplay among people, processes, institutional culture, and represent important aspects of an organization including perceptions and expectations of the people in the academic community ...

Research paper thumbnail of An examination of cross-cultural experiences on developing culturally responsive teacher candidates

Emerald Open Research, 2019

As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher pre... more As the P-12 student landscape continues to grow in cultural and linguistic diversity, teacher preparation programs have yet to adequately prepare teacher candidates’ teaching and learning skills in meeting the academic and socio-emotional needs of diverse student demographics. This article examines teacher candidates’ cultural competence and cultural responsiveness to enhance candidates’ educator preparation and stimulate candidates’ personal growth development as developing culturally and linguistically responsive new teachers. While many teacher preparation programs require one multicultural or diversity education course, the authors examine a Minority Serving Institution’s integration of a cultural immersion experience for teacher candidates as one way of supporting their development as culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogues. This paper aims at supporting school districts’ need of culturally competent new teachers who have the content knowledge and pedagogy to teach ...

Research paper thumbnail of It’s Not Hard Work; It’s Heart Work: Strategies of Effective, Award-Winning Culturally Responsive Teachers

The Urban Review, 2017

With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and inst... more With an increasingly diverse, K-12 public school student population, adequately teaching and instructing all student demographic groups is a pertinent educational issue. As such, there has been an ensuing need for teachers to develop the knowledge, dispositions, and pedagogical skills and competencies necessary to teach children from diverse backgrounds. Acknowledging this need, this qualitative analysis examines the teaching strategies that seven award-winning teachers of students in urban schools use to cultivate culturally responsive classroom environments. Considering the disparaging academic achievement of many U.S. public school students, culturally responsive teaching may assist in closing enduring achievement gaps. To this end, this study's findings indicate four major themes that may inform the classroom pedagogical practices of practitioners.

Research paper thumbnail of Tweeting as Civic Agency: What is the Role of Social Media in Social Studies Classrooms?

Research paper thumbnail of The Influence of Cross-Cultural Experiences on Developing Culturally Responsive Teacher Candidates

Research paper thumbnail of Systems of Care for addressing the traumatic impact of violence exposure on student well-being

Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar\_savannah Part... more Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah Part of the Counselor Education Commons, Educational Sociology Commons, Health and Physical Education Commons, Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Special Education and Teaching Commons, Student Counseling and Personnel Services Commons, Teacher Education and Professional Development Commons, and the Urban Education Commons