For EDA 6503 The Principalship, the final course of the Educational Leadership program, I worked closely with Patricia Carson, principal at Mandarin Oaks Elementary School in Jacksonville, FL, to complete my practicum experiences. Ms. Carson has been a school principal for 22 years and the principal of Mandarin Oaks for the last 14 years. According to Ms. Carson, the job of a principal has changed immensely in the last 10 years, and it is more important than ever to keep up with current…
How does color depict emotions? That question encouraged me to ask people if there 's a relationship between color and emotion. The majority answered me saying “color is life”. That statement was very interesting to me as a researcher and I asked furthermore. What did they mean by “color is life”? To my understanding, color affects people 's emotions and behavior. Color has the greatness to speak for people, it 's a basic way to describe a person 's life. Those who want to express themselves se…
Memory clinics provide holistic care to dementia patients, at a cost—or lack thereof “It’s like a flood-gate in a sense,” Paul Yost says. Paul Yost is a social worker at the Alzheimer’s Society of London-Middlesex. With an increase in clients lately, he is busy trying to accommodate and provide services to some of the 564,000 Canadians living with dementia—and their friends and family members who suffer with them. Now, he is travelling to other family health practices to provide services…
growing up, changing from nursery to primary education, puberty, or changes in their home life such as moving house, entering or leaving care, changes to their family structure. How each child is affected is very individual to each person, the stage of development they have already reached and a whole mix of external and environmental factors. If the teaching staff are…
different forms depending on the discipline being examined and written in, however all sources can be classified into two distinctive categories; either Primary or Secondary sources. To understand the use of such source material, this paper will examine how David Nasaw combined the use of primary and secondary sources when creating…
In 2007 the Pinellas County School Board stopped integrating schools, causing a shift in school demographics that was especially drastic for 5 elementary schools in south Pinellas: Campbell Park, Fairmount Park, Lakewood, Maximo and Melrose. These schools became noticeably segregated and performance dropped, they were dubbed “failure factories” in a Tampa Bay Times series about the schools. South Pinellas is also known for its lack of fresh food resources and could be considered a food desert.…
Up until this day, my parents still make fun of me for how much I loved going to school as a kid. To be honest, I don’t take offense to it, only because I love the elementary school I went too still today. I love it so much that I spent the second half of my senior year of high school volunteering there as a first grade teacher’s aid. My elementary school was relatively small compared to others in the area. It was kindergarten through sixth grade. Every grade in the school had between 60-80…
How does Fleur Adcock express individuality in Heidi With the Blue Hair? In Heidi With the Blue Hair by Fleur Adcock there are many conflicts between different characters, ideas and so on, to create different themes. She expresses the theme of individuality by conflicting it with boundaries. Adcock expresses individuality by using conflicts between characters and colours to show societal/school norms that conflict with individuality. In the first stanza of the poem you can immediately the…
Those stupid inbred Conservatives, all they care about is religion, their guns, and cutting taxes on the rich! More like the stupid Libtards, am I right? Those Liberal snowflakes think that they can solve everything just by having the government pay for it, but nothing is for free, someone has to pay for it! The increasing narrative stretching across the country is that we are becoming increasingly divided. The statements above are just some comments that you might see daily if you dive into the…
La Verne is a very small town compared to the other cities around it—San Dimas, Claremont, and Pomona. It was one of the cities that was born from the “boom” of the Santa Fe railroad. Issac Lord, the founder of La Verne, founded this community in 1887 when he convinced the Santa Fe railroad to extend to this area and promptly named it “Lordsburg.” After Issac Lord’s death in March 1917, Lordsburg’s citizens changed the city name to La Verne, meaning “growing green.” Moreover, La Verne also…