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disability. She became disabled after suffering a traumatic brain injury, the result of a car crash when she was 20. And, while she struggles to move and communicate in conventional ways, Masters enjoys to write. And, it was with that in mind, Superintendent Marianne Mader asked her to write a regular column for the agency's newsletter. “I know that she enjoys writing, and I was trying to find a way for her to use her skill and talent and share it with the community,” said Mader, adding the…

and do things they once thought they could not do. I have ideas about our hiring and recruiting process and I look forward to putting my training skills to great use as the Operations Manager. I also already have a great relationship with the superintendents, project managers, sales and admin team. I feel these factors alone give me the ability to jump right in and not have to learn the Alpha process or develop trust and relationships with the Charlotte team. I come with the security of knowing…

Charter schools’ rise in popularity in the New Orleans’ school district came after Hurricane Katrina’s destruction in 2005. Hope for charter schools stemmed from the failed public education system beforehand. Hurricane Katrina offered a complete fresh slate for educators and students alike, at least so they thought. With inside lenses from Sarah Carr’s Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America 's Children, she reveals what was underneath these data-driven…

How did schools desegregate in major cities of the United States? When I came to this country, I was amazed at that fact, so many people from different ethnic backgrounds attended school together. I say this because I came from a country where there wasn’t much diversity. It’s hard to imagine that just 50 years ago people lived in a racially divided America. So how did we end the racial divide in our school system? Especially in the white dominated cities such as Boston. I decided to research…

Dr. Barrett must work with the parents and the teachers. In order to grow a shared district vision of seeing their students successfully graduate and move on to better things in their lives, collaboration must become the norm. As if a three-legged stool, both the parents and the teachers are the pillars that hold up and support the students as they learn and grow. The parents can be approached in various ways, but it must be on their terms. Where they are, already, supporting their children,…

STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT Stanford Prisoner Experiment Dr. Paul Zimbardo was a physiologist at a Stanford University Professor. He took interest in the nature of prisoners and prison guards. He was interested in finding out if the brutality among prison guards was because of their personalities, or if it was a result of the prison environment. He hypothesized that it wasn 't the nature of the guards that made them brutal, it was the roles that they were expected to play that lead to their…

Introduction: William Blount was born on March 26, 1749, at “Rosefield,” Bertie, NC. He died on March 21, 1800 at Knoxville, Tennessee. His parents were Jacob Blount Sr. and Barbara Gray Blount, he had two sibling’s name, Willie Blount and Thomas Blount. He also worked in the family business and later on he joined in on the American Revolution as the paymaster of the third regiment. “After winning are independent William got married to Mary Grainier and the had six childrens and out of those six…

Sexual harassment is broadly defined term used by the United States Government to refer to situations of harassment where sexual advances or offensive behaviors and remarks occur. With the broad nature of the terminology used, the enforcement of sexual harassment laws and the determination of guilt is left to the citizens. One such case, in which sexual harassment in a situation was questioned, involved the interpretation of an art piece and its display in a pubic environment. The art piece was…

The last aspect of leadership characteristic in this study is the leadership integrity. The questionnaire, Perceived Leadership Integrity Scale was used from a version of the PLIS that appeared in Leadership Quarterly by S. B. Craig and S. B. Gustafson as cited in Northouse (2013). The PLIS is a 3600 leadership assessment instrument for assessing impressions of the integrity, ethics, and destructive behaviors of managers and leaders. The PLIS authors defined clearly non-integral behaviors…

restrooms. One example of this, according to a 2014 Media Matters article, is when the Christian Broadcasting Network reported that a male student pretended to be trans to harass female students. This story was determined to be false when the school superintendent was questioned and he reported no incidents of harassment at the high school. Media Matters also reported in their article what experts said from states with laws similar to this bill. There has been “no increase in sex crimes due to…