Vassar Scholarship
"Tests and rubrics and checklists don't create good teachers" – the significance of empowering teachers
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2016-January-01
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"War with stereotypes": the educational experiences, aspirations, and motivations of low-income, Asian American students
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2017-January-01
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"Well, I'm thinking about horse poverty": Teaching and Learning about Social Justice and the Arts with Elementary School Students
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2020-January-01
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This paper analyzes a social justice arts program that I developed and taught to third, fourth, and fifth grade students at one school in the Poughkeepsie, NY area. I begin this project by considering my own experiences in art class...
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(Re)storying Pain in Educational Spaces: Familial Storytelling, Connections & Reflections Toward Interdependent Care
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2022-June-01
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A Case for Culturally Relevant Education in Rural Schools
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2022-June-01
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A Gamers Thoughts: An Exploration Into Marginalization in Video Games
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2020-January-01
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An Investigation into the Relationship between Sports Participation, Academic Performance and Mental Health in Middle and High School Athletes
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2023-April-23
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Barriers to racial consciousness in Asian Americans
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2017-January-01
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Beyond the margins: invisibility and violence against Middle Eastern and North African American students in the orientalist, post-9/11 world
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2016-January-01
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Creative Literacy: Reading Workshops at Poughkeepsie High School
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2014-January-01
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Creativity In Question: The Infiltration Of The Common Core State Standards Into The Realm of Visual Arts After School Programs
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2015-January-01
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Deconstructing the Asian-American Student: Storytelling through Portraiture
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2015-January-01
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The model minority stereotype was coined in 1966 to describe the Japanese and their post-World War II success, but it quickly generalized across all Asian ethnic groups. Today, although many Asians resist this stereotype, many Americans—both Asian and non-Asian—embrace it...
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Differentiating the Common Core: Establishing the importance of place, population, and politics in creating a relevant and valuable curriculum
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2014-January-01
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This thesis explores the importance of incorporating students' surrounding place, population, and politics into a relevant and valuable curriculum. I frame this analysis with an overview of the benefits and detriments of the recent Educational reform initiative known as the...
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Easier said than done: collaborative pedagogy and its challenges in the Vassar College Writing Center
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2017-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Education for Abolition: A Prison Abolitionist Curriculum for a Youth After-School Program
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2021-January-01
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Vassar Scholarship
Empowering Art and Transforming Spaces: Museums, Community, and Social Justice
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2015-January-01
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Food fight: the communal struggle for food justice in Poughkeepsie city schools
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2016-January-01
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From Public to Private Space: The Territorialization of the Poughkeepsie City School District And the Four Pillars Charter School
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2014-January-01
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Within the contemporary landscape of public education reform, educational actors are re- directing their hopes and visions for equitable and collaborative change outside of public space and into private territories, such as charter schools. The effort to establish the Four...
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In this space: a critical race perspective on the career aspirations of Latinas at Vassar College
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2016-January-01
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Inclusive STEM Education at Vassar College: Perceptions, Practices, and Lessons Learned from Teaching Under COVID-19
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2021-January-01
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The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has distributed our lives in every aspect. After a year of living under the 'new normal, we are finally seeing vaccinations becoming available, which greatly benefits everyone at risk. This pandemic uncovered the...
