The initial meeting of the Empowering Hispanic Parents project was held with 19 participants including parents, students, staff and the principal. The principal discussed academic courses and test scores in a Q&A session. Parents asked questions about tutoring, communicating with teachers, and helping a struggling student. The school nurse then provided information to parents on health services and procedures in Spanish with interpretation. The meeting facilitated constructive dialogue between Spanish-speaking families and school staff.
A high school teacher in Gyeongju, Korea had students create anonymous "secret postcards" sharing secrets for a class project, similar to the website PostSecret. Students discussed secrets and created their own cards at home with text, drawings or magazine clippings. The teacher then displayed the cards on a bulletin board and online. The project allowed students to express themselves and learn more about each other, while also teaching the teacher more about Korean culture.
This document provides a unit plan for teaching direct object pronouns to Spanish 1 students. It includes 6 lesson plans with objectives aligned to state standards. Modifications are described for English language learners and students with IEPs or other needs. Assessments include a pre-test, daily bellwork, and a unit quiz. Pre-test data showed students lacked knowledge of sentence structure, word order and direct object pronouns. The unit aims to build this foundation through direct instruction, practice exercises and opportunities for students to correct their work.
The document provides information on several landscape architecture and urban design projects completed by Sydney Shell during an internship with Confluence, a landscape architecture firm. It includes summaries and images from projects such as a command and control facility interpretive area, a residential development in Knoxville, Iowa, a mixed-use development in Altoona, Iowa, grading plans for a data center campus in West Des Moines, Iowa, and a trail hub project in Windsor Heights, Iowa. The document demonstrates Sydney Shell's work experience and creative skills in conceptual design, digital modeling, graphics, and construction documentation for a variety of project types.
This document discusses a study that investigates how bilingual speakers select words in the intended language during speech production. It provides background on models of lexical selection, including semantic competition effects shown in monolingual studies. For bilinguals, representations from both languages may compete, requiring an inhibition mechanism. The study combines semantic blocking and language switching paradigms to address whether selection involves active inhibition of the non-target language or competition from the target language only. Results are expected to provide insights into the nature of the language selection mechanism in highly proficient bilingual speakers.
This document contains a Brazilian person's selections for items to place in a time capsule to represent their country's legacy. The items include literature like classic books by Machado de Assis; language materials like a Portuguese dictionary; music like songs by Tom Jobim; nature items like Brazilian seeds; cultural elements like feijoada recipe and videos of regional festivals; religion materials on Umbanda; movies like A Dog's Will; sports items on football; architecture photos of Brasilia; and indigenous handicrafts. The goal is to preserve aspects of Brazil's diverse culture, history and people for future generations to understand the country's legacy.
The document discusses verbs in Spanish. It explains that verbs indicate actions and must be conjugated based on the subject. Verbs in Spanish end in -ar, -er, or -ir in their infinitive form. The document provides examples of regular -ar verbs like hablar (to talk) and their conjugations according to subject pronouns like yo (I), tú (you), él/ella/usted (he/she/you formal), etc. It emphasizes that verb conjugations are important for expressing who is performing the action.
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The initial meeting of the Empowering Hispanic Parents project was held with 19 participants including parents, students, staff and the principal. The principal discussed academic courses and test scores in a Q&A session. Parents asked questions about tutoring, communicating with teachers, and helping a struggling student. The school nurse then provided information to parents on health services and procedures in Spanish with interpretation. The meeting facilitated constructive dialogue between Spanish-speaking families and school staff.
A high school teacher in Gyeongju, Korea had students create anonymous "secret postcards" sharing secrets for a class project, similar to the website PostSecret. Students discussed secrets and created their own cards at home with text, drawings or magazine clippings. The teacher then displayed the cards on a bulletin board and online. The project allowed students to express themselves and learn more about each other, while also teaching the teacher more about Korean culture.
This document provides a unit plan for teaching direct object pronouns to Spanish 1 students. It includes 6 lesson plans with objectives aligned to state standards. Modifications are described for English language learners and students with IEPs or other needs. Assessments include a pre-test, daily bellwork, and a unit quiz. Pre-test data showed students lacked knowledge of sentence structure, word order and direct object pronouns. The unit aims to build this foundation through direct instruction, practice exercises and opportunities for students to correct their work.
The document provides information on several landscape architecture and urban design projects completed by Sydney Shell during an internship with Confluence, a landscape architecture firm. It includes summaries and images from projects such as a command and control facility interpretive area, a residential development in Knoxville, Iowa, a mixed-use development in Altoona, Iowa, grading plans for a data center campus in West Des Moines, Iowa, and a trail hub project in Windsor Heights, Iowa. The document demonstrates Sydney Shell's work experience and creative skills in conceptual design, digital modeling, graphics, and construction documentation for a variety of project types.
This document discusses a study that investigates how bilingual speakers select words in the intended language during speech production. It provides background on models of lexical selection, including semantic competition effects shown in monolingual studies. For bilinguals, representations from both languages may compete, requiring an inhibition mechanism. The study combines semantic blocking and language switching paradigms to address whether selection involves active inhibition of the non-target language or competition from the target language only. Results are expected to provide insights into the nature of the language selection mechanism in highly proficient bilingual speakers.
This document contains a Brazilian person's selections for items to place in a time capsule to represent their country's legacy. The items include literature like classic books by Machado de Assis; language materials like a Portuguese dictionary; music like songs by Tom Jobim; nature items like Brazilian seeds; cultural elements like feijoada recipe and videos of regional festivals; religion materials on Umbanda; movies like A Dog's Will; sports items on football; architecture photos of Brasilia; and indigenous handicrafts. The goal is to preserve aspects of Brazil's diverse culture, history and people for future generations to understand the country's legacy.
The document discusses verbs in Spanish. It explains that verbs indicate actions and must be conjugated based on the subject. Verbs in Spanish end in -ar, -er, or -ir in their infinitive form. The document provides examples of regular -ar verbs like hablar (to talk) and their conjugations according to subject pronouns like yo (I), tú (you), él/ella/usted (he/she/you formal), etc. It emphasizes that verb conjugations are important for expressing who is performing the action.
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Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica have practiced weaving for thousands of years. The Mayans had a vibrant weaving tradition that was central to women's roles and considered spiritually important. Today, Mayan descendants in Guatemala continue traditions like using a backstrap loom and incorporating traditional symbolic designs into huipils, the traditional tunic dress. European influences like the treadle loom were also incorporated after the conquest.
Through interviews with park users at Ada Hayden Heritage Park, several key themes emerged about winter park usage:
1. Convenience and recreation were the most common reasons that subjects visited the park, with many citing the maintained trails as convenient for running or dog walking.
2. The park continues to provide health, social, and environmental benefits in the winter through activities like fitness, hiking, fishing, and socializing.
3. Factors in the park's winter success included well-maintained trails that allow for multiple activities even in cold weather, as well as programmed and unprogrammed areas that encourage continual usage.
1) The document discusses generating frequency tables and univariate charts in SPSS. It explains how to produce frequency tables, pie charts, bar charts, and histograms in SPSS.
2) It provides examples of frequency table components and properly formatted univariate charts.
3) The document concludes by summarizing religious, educational, and family background information learned about young adults in the 1980 GSS based on frequency tables.
If all of the world´s cultural heritage (sports, music, fashion, architecture, literature, painting, etc..) was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of Brazil?
I created this PowerPoint on English as a Global Language during an internship at the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica have practiced weaving for thousands of years. The Mayans had a vibrant weaving tradition that was central to women's roles and considered spiritually important. Today, Mayan descendants in Guatemala continue traditions like using a backstrap loom and incorporating traditional symbolic designs into huipils, the traditional tunic dress. European influences like the treadle loom were also incorporated after the conquest.
Through interviews with park users at Ada Hayden Heritage Park, several key themes emerged about winter park usage:
1. Convenience and recreation were the most common reasons that subjects visited the park, with many citing the maintained trails as convenient for running or dog walking.
2. The park continues to provide health, social, and environmental benefits in the winter through activities like fitness, hiking, fishing, and socializing.
3. Factors in the park's winter success included well-maintained trails that allow for multiple activities even in cold weather, as well as programmed and unprogrammed areas that encourage continual usage.
1) The document discusses generating frequency tables and univariate charts in SPSS. It explains how to produce frequency tables, pie charts, bar charts, and histograms in SPSS.
2) It provides examples of frequency table components and properly formatted univariate charts.
3) The document concludes by summarizing religious, educational, and family background information learned about young adults in the 1980 GSS based on frequency tables.
If all of the world´s cultural heritage (sports, music, fashion, architecture, literature, painting, etc..) was contained in a time capsule, what would you include to demonstrate the legacy of Brazil?
I created this PowerPoint on English as a Global Language during an internship at the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea.
1. Thursday, March 5, 2015 |
Jewish agency helps nurses re-tool
by patricia corrigan , j. correspondent
Renewed confidence. Improved skills. Hope.
Maya Zitrin got all that and more from the free nursing refresher program offered through Jewish
Vocational Service. Zitrin, 28, completed the semester-long course in December. “The most
valuable part was getting back in a hospital environment, getting more hands-on experience,”
Zitrin said. “I had been losing confidence in myself and my skills, and I got that back.”
Maya Zitrin
JVS offers the program in collaboration with City College of San Francisco. The 17-week course
includes theoretical practice, 200 hours of clinical experience at San Francisco General Hospital
and Laguna Honda Hospital, and help with a job search. A 10-week program is available in the
East Bay.
Open to licensed vocational and registered nurses, the refresher program has been in place for 23
years. Hundreds of nurses have completed the course as the focus of the training has evolved.
“Where nurses get jobs has changed, and our program is changing to reflect that,” said Abby
Snay, executive director of JVS.
Zitrin, who grew up in a Jewish household in San Francisco, was hired as a school nurse in the
Oakland Unified School District right after completing her bachelor of science in nursing in 2009
at the University of San Francisco. A year later, Zitrin moved to Quincy, in Plumas County, to
2. work in a long-term care facility. Then she transferred to a job at Country Villa Healthcare in
San Rafael, where she worked for three years.
“I learned a lot there, and had even moved into a supervisor position,” the Bernal Heights
resident said. “I left in 2013 because of medical issues of my own. Then last year I found the
nursing refresher program through JVS, and decided to take it.”
Zitrin said she was different from many of her classmates. She was the youngest student, she is
African American, and much of her experience has been with palliative care, which is available
to people whose conditions no longer respond to treatment. “We treat symptoms, control pain
and help patients live life to the fullest,” Zitrin said, “but we don’t have a handle on treating
chronic illness.”
Alemnesh Handiso of the JVS nursing refresher program measures blood pressure.
photo/jennifer hong
Also, Zitrin’s commitment to nursing has shifted. “My whole family is very big on giving back,
on finding something to do that makes you happy and gives back to the world, and my focus now
is more on holistic nursing,” she said. “Medication is not the only answer for people with chronic
pain, and we need to explore new ways of treating illnesses.” Zitrin currently is interning with
acupuncturists at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the Lotus Center in the Mission.
The nursing refresher course is one of many programs available through JVS, which has helped
some 75,000 clients develop skills and find jobs over the past 40 years. Zitrin’s class was made
up of 20 nurses from 13 countries, ranging in age from 28 to 50-plus. Half the students were
from the United States, half had emigrated from other countries.
The program’s origins were narrower. “In the late ’80s and ’90s, we focused on the resettlement
of 40,000 Soviet Jewish refugees, many with medical backgrounds,” Snay said. “They were well
prepared academically, very skilled, and able to get licenses — but they were losing jobs. We
started the Soviet Nurses Program, which focused on the role of a nurse in U.S. medical
practice.”
3. Over the years, the name of the program has changed and the demographic has expanded. More
changes have come in the past few years. “As the economy tanked and slowly recovered, now
we have U.S.-trained nurses coming in who don’t have recent experience, lots of moms who left
nursing to stay home and raise kids,” Snay said. “Some have spouses who have lost a job. Or
maybe a nurse completed training a few years ago and can’t get a job now.”
For years, there has been talk of a shortage of nurses, but Snay said that is not presently the case
in the Bay Area. That may change in the next few years. “Right now the average age of nurses in
California is 60,” she said, “so we are expecting a deluge of retirements.” That will benefit
graduates of the program.
Some graduates have stayed in the Bay Area; others have scattered to other parts of the country
or the world, Snay said. “Some have gone to work in home health care and some in the prison
system. A couple of years ago we had a group of graduates who moved together to Minot, North
Dakota, to provide nursing care,” she said.
“It’s just a great program, one that changes lives.”