Week 5 Discussion – Voices from the FieldAccess and read the article below, “Voices from the Field: The Principal’s Presence and Supervision to Improve Teaching.”Voices from the Field: The Principal’s

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Week 5 Discussion – Voices from the Field

Access and read the article below, “Voices from the Field: The Principal’s Presence and Supervision to Improve Teaching.”

  • Voices from the Field: The Principal’s Presence and Supervision to Improve Teaching

Link:   http://www.sedl.org/pubs/sedl-letter/v17n02/principal.html

In this article, Mr. Hall discusses why “being there” and “Goal-Setting and Walk Throughs” are beneficial to student achievement. While we will discuss this in an entire course later, there is a sentence in this article that is key. It reads as follows:

“The entire supervision and evaluation aspect of the principalship should be designed around the unwavering support and development of every individual teacher on staff. Individually, principals can tell their teachers, “I am here to help you grow and improve as much as I can. I will not treat you all equally, for you are all unique carbon life forms and you all have different skills, strategies, strengths, and weaknesses. However, I will treat you all fairly.”

We all know that this is a very easy conversation to have with the teachers in your building who are doing a great job with exemplary test scores. However, as you think about this sentence, apply it to the teacher in your building who needs improvement. You are there to help that teacher as well. You have just walked through his or her class and have seen some troubling areas in classroom management.

  • How would your conversation go as you sit down together, keeping in mind that supervision is key to instructional leadership? (Please feel free to pull anything else from the article that grabbed your attention).

Your initial responses are due by 11:55 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and should be between 200-250 words. The initial posting should be a statement of your point of view on the question, supported by the required readings. 

Select two of the major religious traditions studied in this unit of the course. Summarize the key features of each and contrast them with each other…

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Select two of the major religious traditions studied in this unit of the course. Summarize the key features of each and contrast them with each other and with the Greek philosophical tradition. essay in which you answer the following:

  • What sensations, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors are expressed in religious rituals?
  • How have religious traditions survived from their historical origins down to the present day?
  • What social and cultural differences make it difficult for people from distinct traditions to relate to each other productively?
  • What power do these approaches have to transform individual lives?

Your essay may well include reflection on the role of religious traditions in your own life, but please take care to develop your analysis of the issues independently of your own convictions.

Refer to the Religious Tradition Scoring Guide to ensure that you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.

Other Requirements

  • Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Your paper should be formatted according to APA (6th edition) style and formatting.
  • Length: 4-6 typed

How are religion and morality related? Can they be separated? Can a person be moral without being religious?

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How are religion and morality related? Can they be separated? Can a person be moral without being religious?   

Write briefly about National Women’s Rights Convention ? What was this started for ?

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Write briefly about National Women’s Rights Convention ? What was this started for ?

How does the process of socialization influence our values and beliefs regarding sex/gender, sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, and aging?

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How does the process of socialization influence our values and beliefs regarding sex/gender, sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, and aging?

 Which of these areas do you think deserve the most attention in terms of organizational, political, and economic disparities in the United States today and why?

How does prejudice and discrimination based on sex/gender, sexuality, race and/or ethnicity, and aging affect workplace communication and diversity in the workplace?

FEMA IS-293 Final Exam 1. Which one of the following statements about Mission Assignment billing is CORRECT?

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FEMA IS-293 Final Exam

1. Which one of the following statements about Mission Assignment billing is CORRECT? A. All subtasked agencies must bill FEMA directly.

 B. Agencies may combine costs for multiple Mission Assignments onto one bill for reimbursement.

 C. Agencies that use IPAC are exempt from the requirement to submit supporting documentation.

 D. Agencies may submit multiple bills against one Mission Assignment.

2. When the Joint Field Office closes, which of the following activities takes place? A. FEMA Finance Center staff transfer unliquidated obligations to the State.

 B. The State Approving Official negotiates the cost-share agreement based on work completed.

 C. FEMA field staff transition all MA records to Regional Office staff.

 D. Finance and Administration Section Chief conducts an audit to determine the final payment amount.

3. Mission Assignment Task Orders: A. Are generally used to provide specifics for a broad Statement of Work.

 B. Can be issued to a support agency when the primary agency determines they need additional support.

 C. Combine multiple Mission Assignments into a single Statement of Work.

 D. Include a not-to-exceed cost estimate from the primary agency to the subtasked agency.

4. Pre-Scripted Mission Assignments: A. Cannot be modified by the primary agency of an Emergency Support Function.

 B. Assign tasks to another Federal agency that are within that agency’s statutory authority.

 C. Contain a Statement of Work and projected cost estimates.

 D. Are automatically issued in certain types of disasters.

5. Which type of Mission Assignment (MA) may be subject to cost-share provisions, normally 75% Federal share and 25% State share? A. Federal Operations Support (FOS)

 B. Direct Federal Assistance (DFA)

 C. Other Federal Support (OFS)

 D. Technical Assistance (TA)

6. Who is responsible for reviewing OFA requests for reimbursement, performing MA reimbursement, and helping with financial closeout functions? A. State Approving Official

 B. DHS Chief Financial Officer

 C. FEMA Finance Center staff

 D. OFA Finance specialists

7. The signature of the State Approving Official is required for: A. Technical Assistance Mission Assignments

 B. Mission Assignment Amendment to an FOS Mission Assignment

 C. Action Request Forms for Federal agency activation

 D. Federal Operations Support Mission Assignments

8. The FEMA Project Manager works with the other Federal agency (OFA) Action Officer to: A. Develop the Statement of Work.

 B. Designate a Mission Assignment Manager.

 C. Prepare bills for reimbursement after completion of work.

 D. Determine which Emergency Support Functions will be activated.

9. 11.Review of the Action Request Form by the Operations Section Chief may result in the request being filled through a variety of means, EXCEPT: A. Through OFA statutory authority.

 B. By Public Assistance grants.

 C. Through procurement with non-disaster funds.

 D. By FEMA Logistics with existing resources.

10. A new Mission Assignment must be issued for changes in ______________. A. Funding.

 B. FEMA Project Manager.

 C. State cost share.

 D. Statement of Work.

11. Which of the following costs is eligible for reimbursement under a Mission Assignment? A. Settlement costs resulting from disaster-related litigation

 B. Overtime for temporary staff

 C. Work performed under the agency’s own authority

 D. Estimated or advanced costs

12. The Operations Sections Chief reviews the Action Request Form to ensure that the request: A. Describes permanent work.

 B. Has been entered in the Action Tracker Log.

 C. Contains a State cost-share agreement.

 D. Is beyond State/local capabilities.

13. Mission Assignments are: A. Grants given to FEMA and other Federal agencies to conduct emergency work.

 B. Contracts directing Federal agencies to conduct response, recovery, and mitigation activities.

 C. Declarations that provide up to $5 million in Federal assistance.

 D. Work orders issued by FEMA to another Federal agency.

14. Which of the following personnel MUST sign off in the approval chain for a Direct Federal Assistance Mission Assignment? A. Operations Section Chief

 B. State Approving Official

 C. MA Specialist

 D. Logistics Section Chief

15. 14.Which of the following statements on Mission Assignments is CORRECT? A. The Federal Government may request a Federal Operations Support MA.

 B. Mission Assignments may be used for long-term recovery activities.

 C. The assigned OFA Action Officer may approve and obligate funds for a Direct Federal Assistance MA.

 D. Technical Assistance MAs allow one State to provide expert advice to another State.

View the below video, and then search the Internet and find information (articles and/or documentaries) about the Michael Crowe confession in the…

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  1. Compare and contrast good and bad techniques used by the detectives to elicit a confession?
  2. What issues with the confession did you find?
  3. Why would Michael confess if he was innocent?
  4. How would you classify the confession (using key terms from the textbook)? Explain.

Describe your App. What is the purpose? How does it work?

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Describe your App. What is the purpose? How does it work?

Running Head: FOURSQUARE APP 1 Foursquare App {Name} {University} FOURSQUARE APP 2Foursquare App Foursquare is a location-based societal system where one “checks in” to individualfavorite…

On a separate sheet of paper, write a formal letter to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) explaining why you want to be an ambassador and why you would be a fit candidate.

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On a separate sheet of paper, write a formal letter to the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) explaining why you want to be an ambassador and why you would be a fit candidate.

Your second longer-term assignment in this course is to complete an observation journal, where you will use the previous information collected in your comparison template to apply social scientific ob

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Your second longer-term assignment in this course is to complete an observation journal, where you will use the previous information collected in your comparison template to apply social scientific observations to help you to develop a question about the ads that a social scientist might ask. 

The work you do on this observation journal will directly support your work on your third course project, the final reflection, which is due later in the course. This observation journal assignment will assess the following course outcome, which you focused on throughout Theme 2:

 • Develop questions about fundamental aspects of human behavior that inform personal assumptions, beliefs and values using evidence from the social sciences.

 Prompt Your second course project is an observation journal. You have already gathered your advertisements and completed your comparison template to determine the social science approaches that are relevant to your ads. For this assignment you will use that information to write an observation journal that will ask you to draw conclusions from the ads and, eventually, devise a social science question that you might like to investigate. The critical elements of this assessment will be evaluated in your observation journal. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed and will be graded using the rubric at the end of this document: I.

1. Explain why you chose these advertisements forsocialscientific and personal study. For instance, what aspects of them intrigued you and made you curious? 

 2.Explain the assumptions and observations about human interactions and behaviors you made about the advertisements. These are some questions you might want to consider in your explanation: a. Who do you believe the audiences for the ads might be? b. What messages do you think the ads are sending? c. What do you think the nature of the relationship is between or among the people in theads? d. What relationship(s) do you see between or among the people and the product or service being advertised? e. How effective are the ads in influencing your own consumer decisions?

 3. Identify topics in this course that are relevant to the human behaviors in your advertisements and explain how they are relevant. This is your social science evidence for your observations. For instance, what ideas and people have you studied so far that apply to your observations? 

4. Taking all of your observations and objective conclusions about human behavior in your advertisements into account, assume the role of a social scientist. What question would you ask about the advertisements that you, as a social scientist, could seek to answer? What observations and objective conclusions lead you to this question? Supporting Work and Resources T

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