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Item The Learner’s Compass: How Volition Guides Achievement(2025-07)This is not a book of quick fixes or one-size-fits-all programs. It’s a compass—a guide for finding your way through the complexity and beauty of teaching. It asks hard questions. It offers real strategies. And it reminds you that your greatest influence comes not from being the star of the classroom—but from creating a space where students can become the stars of their own stories. If you’ve ever felt that spark—that moment when a student takes ownership, lights up, leans in—this book is for you. If you’ve ever wondered how to move from compliance to engagement, from performance to purpose—this book is for you. And if you’re ready to believe that volition, not just instruction, is the path to real achievement—this book is yours.Item OPTIMIZING HOMESCHOOLERS' EXPERIENCES IN MUSEUMS(2005)The purpose of this master's project was to learn how museums, specifically through their educational programs, can become a more effective component in homeschoolers' education. In identifying the educational needs of homeschoolers, this project will help museum educators to understand better and address the educational needs of this growing community, and fulfill the field's mandate to expand learning opportunities, broadening outreach, and become more inclusive.13 Optimize the homeschool experience of museums is contingent upon museums and homeschool communities forging a better and a mutually beneficial relationship. My master's project, therefore, culminates in a set of guidelines that will help museum educators understand better and serve the growing homeschool community and will help foster that relationship. My guidelines, findings, and recommendations for this project will be disseminated to museum professionals through a proposed session at the American Associations of Museums 2006 Annual Meeting and MuseumExpo. In addition, interested museum and homeschool educators may request a Portable Document File (PDF) of this material.Item PARTNERSHIPS WITH IMPACT: COLLABORATION BETWEEN MUSEUMS AND HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS TO SERVE INDIVIDUALS WITH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE(2013)With an unstable economy and many cultural institutions fighting for the same visitor dollars, some museums are questioning how they will remain relevant and sustainable. There are museum professionals who believe these challenges require a shift in why, how, and who they serve in their community. Many museums have chosen to address their community's needs by targeting programs to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. This master's project examines the creation of partnerships between museums and health and social service organizations (HSSO), such as the Alzheimer's Association, to develop and implement programs for individuals with Alzheimer's disease.Item OTOMI AMATE PAPER Process Ritual Art An Exhibition Catalogue(1980)The purpose of the catalogue is, foremost, to document a visual experience and to record permanently a selection of the objects on view, labels and other written material pertinent to the exhibit. The catalogue also provides opportunity to present anthropological background information and to enrich understanding of the selected cultural content upon which the exhibit is focused.Item OTTOMAN EMBROIDERED TOWELS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE COLLECTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA MUSEUMS(1982)The report is presented in three parts; first, a brief historic background of the Ottoman Empire and the role textiles played during the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The second part is a review of pertinent information about the towels, and includes the original research resulting from my comparative study. My conclusions and the questions I feel remain to be answered are also contained in the second part of the report. The final portion is a catalogue of the textiles chosen for the study and referred to throughout the text.
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