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Broadening Mathematics Curriculum: Linking Children’s Literature to Mathematics
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)
Children’s literature provides connections across all content areas. When incorporated within mathematics, it provides an engaging, accessible, and authentic context for learning. The literary experience can lead to ...
Students Studying Science in their Surrounding Environment
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)
This paper examines the neglected state of science education and the nature-deficit children are experiencing and it looks toward outdoor education as a means to heal both issues. It also focuses on the inquiry approach ...
Children's Literature in the Primary Science Curriculum: A Valuable Tool for Promoting Scientific Literacy
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-06-15)
This essay will explore the professional literature that provides the rationale for using children’s literature in an inquiry-based, primary science curriculum (preschool to grade three). My belief, based on the findings ...
On the Same Page: School-Community Partnerships in Urban Settings
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2011-07-15)
In the era of No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, and Waiting for Superman, it is clear that our nation is keenly focused on the academic achievement of students in urban schools. At the same time, the economy is in ...
Digital spatial story lines: Constructing historical contexts through geo-storytelling with archival media
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-09-15)
This project explored how participants combined archival media with physical locations
to construct narratives as a form of personal meaning making and learning about the past. The
story texts, curated as tour paths ...
Saladin Capstone Portfolio
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-11-09)
On the Path Toward College and Career Readiness: An Evaluation of the Implementation and Outcomes of the Career Academy Program in Birmingham, Alabama
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)
In the last three decades, career academies have grown in popularity as a mechanism to bolster high school students’ college and career readiness. Career academies offer small learning communities, project-based/work-based ...
Designing the Future: Education for a Master Planned Community in an Innovative and Choice-Filled Landscape
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)
The Sterling Ranch Development Company is developing 3,400 acres of land in Douglas
County, Colorado. This open range along the Colorado Rocky Mountains will be home to
40,000 people and 12,000 homes at its full development. ...
Null Means Numb: Teaching Black Lives Don't Matter
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)
Race has returned to the forefront of discussion in the United States given the nation’s
current social and political climate, causing educational institutions to face calls to re-examine,
redefine, and recreate educational ...
Capstone EFL Portfolio
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-03-01)
The capstone EFL portfolio manifests my beliefs, knowledge, and experience working with English language learners. At the end of the ELL program, I systematically collect my works and reflect upon my understanding obtained ...