Weaving a Web of Support for Students: Assessing ENLACE New Mexico

In a state where the majority of the population is minority, how youth maneuver through the educational system plays a determining role in the economic well-being of the state. ENLACE New Mexico was created in 2001 to empower the community, students and educators to affect positive change in the public educational system, leading to increased student success, not just for Hispanics, but for all students. An acronym for Engaging Latino Communities for Education, ENLACE also has meaning in Spanish - "to link or weave together". A critical premise of "ENLACE" is that partnerships can result in systemic changes as local schools, colleges and universities work together in new ways. In addition, connecting disenfranchised communities to the educational process can shift the work from a series of disconnected projects into an educational movement. ENLACE's theory of action assumes investing in multi-pronged strategies will create the student-level and systems-level impacts that define "ENLACE's" goals and objectives. Therefore, getting incremental results, even if they are limited improvements in a small arena, signals change is possible and provides momentum for sustaining ENLACE's work. As "ENLACE" New Mexico continues to grow and evolve, participants will face continuing challenges. Establishing partnerships that will outlive fleeting external funds requires building relationships and laying down community roots to address educational disparities for the long term. In turn, these partnerships signal to students that their educational achievement matters to everyone in the community

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Weaving a web of connections through online citizen science

This article explores how the funding process of New Zealand’s Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) has catalysed the coming together of an interdisciplinary research team of education researchers, information systems researchers, and teacher practitioners. Through two funded research projects, a large and growing web of connections is being woven, benefiting the research partnership and outcomes. Our collective aim is to investigate the affordances of online citizen science projects to enhance science teaching and learning. Using examples, we trace the development of some key lines of inquiry that have been made possible because of the interdisciplinary foundation of the projects

Weaving a web of connections through online citizen science

This article explores how the funding process of New Zealand’s Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI) has catalysed the coming together of an interdisciplinary research team of education researchers, information systems researchers, and teacher practitioners. Through two funded research projects, a large and growing web of connections is being woven, benefiting the research partnership and outcomes. Our collective aim is to investigate the affordances of online citizen science projects to enhance science teaching and learning. Using examples, we trace the development of some key lines of inquiry that have been made possible because of the interdisciplinary foundation of the projects

Weaving a Web of Linked Resources: Editorial

International audienceThis editorial introduces the special issue based on the best papers from ESWC 2015. And since ESWC'15 marked 15 years of Semantic Web research, we extended this editorial to a position paper that reflects the path that we, as a community, traveled so far with the goal of transforming the Web of Pages to a Web of Resources. We discuss some of the key challenges, research topics and trends addressed by the Semantic Web community in its journey. We conclude that the symbiotic relation of our community with the Web requires a truly multidisciplinary research approach to support the Web's diversity

Weaving a web of support for IR managers

The concept and development of a Community of Practice (COP) for IR managers are explored.Paper presented at the 4th African Conference for Digital Scholarship and Curation:'Innovation & collaboration in the digital research and learning environments', CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, 16-18 May 2011.http://www.nedicc.ac.za/default.asp

Weaving a web of support for IR managers

More and more universities in South Africa have repositories and have adapted Open Access policies to archive and disseminate research outs. But the staff responsible for managing the development of IR’s in South Africa face a number of challenges. In order to deal with theses challenges the University of Johannesburg, University of South Africa, University of Pretoria and Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are collaborating to share experiences, strategies and solutions

She\u27s Sold: Persuading American Women Through Advertising

This study attempted to analyze the effects of an advertising campaign on American women in to illustrate that these women are vastly unaware of just how influential advertising is on their thoughts and actions. It aimed to make women more aware of the presence of advertising in their lives by giving a brief history of the subject, by outlining some current claims in the field, and by introducing a new concept known as shared gender culture. To follow up on secondary research, this study also conducted an experiment on thirty-four women ages eighteen to fifty-five to discover their reactions to a new, never seen advertising campaign for beef. The study attempted to persuade and analyze the effects of persuasion. The study was conducted by survey and asked women their thoughts on and uses of beef before and after revealing the entire print campaign to them. Results showed that half of the participants were not persuaded by the campaign at all through their first and only viewing of it; 26.5% of the women consider themselves entirely invulnerable to advertising persuasion at all. Many women showed great distrust for claims in advertisements, calling them false. Those who did admit to persuasion did so out of a desire to be sexy, happy, healthy, and nurturing to others

The Classic, Spring 1996

President\u27s Report: Blessings Shared; Japanese College Honors VanderWerff; Sign of the Times; Weaving a Web; Van Holland Receives State Education Award; Spring Tours Take Performance Afar; Work Progresses on Building Projects; Accident Claims Japanese Student\u27s Life; English Professor Publishes Book About Emily Dickinson; I Want My CTV; Alumna Directs Spring Play; CD Groups Bring Spiritual Harmony; Three Join Board of Trustees; Students Help Others Over Spring Break; Faculty Active in Scholarship; Van Farowe Works on His Serve; Foster Finds a World of Opportunities; A Day in the Life of the of the Bultman Center; A 29-Year Run: Allen\u27s direction provides steady force for theatre program; Blast from the Past; Telling the Northwestern Story; Finding the Right Chemistry; First Class Teacher; Why I Teach: Eric Elder, Catherine Maxwell; Winter Season Brings Moderate Results; Raiders Receive National Honors; Deaths; Class Notes; Births; Marriages; Alumni Corner; De Koster Wins Le Mars Recognition; Waiting for That Call; International Alumni Newshttps://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/classic1990/1006/thumbnail.jp